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By Dave Reid Over 1200 health workers in the NHS in Wales have signed a letter (below) appealing to the Welsh government to step in to provide the necessary resources to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and end the scandalous situation in our hospitals where patients and NHS workers and their families are falling ill to the virus due only to ...

Carmarthenshire County Unison branch has spoken out at the failure of the Welsh government to provide PPE

EE is making it very clear why we can’t leave it to the bosses to control our response to the corona virus crisis. Not content with dragging its call-centre workforce in to work in the midst of the pandemic (including sales and debt collection), EE is now demanding that many of its high-street shop workers travel back to their workplaces ...

Statement from the International Secretariat of the Committee For A Workers International On the other side of the coronavirus pandemic crisis, things will never be the same again. This will be similar to the situation after the two world wars of the twentieth century. The general situation has already unmistakably “changed, changed utterly!” Moreover, it is the rapid speed of ...

By Ross Saunders Boris Johnson’s response to the new coronavirus epidemic has been one of the most inept of all the leaders of the capitalist world. That the Welsh government, which could have taken a sharply contrasting independent line, instead followed in his footsteps as he lost his balance, makes a farce out of a tragedy. Wales should immediately and ...

Editorial of the Socialist, issue 1078 Boris Johnson won the general election by trying to pose as a ‘man of the people’. Despite the rhetoric the first budget of his premiership showed clearly that, like all Tory administrations, his is a government of the capitalist class, not the working-class majority. It came against the background of a rapidly growing global ...

Dr. Jon Dale As new coronavirus infections gather pace – in Britain and around the world – Boris Johnson claims the country is “well-prepared with a fantastic NHS.” Who’s he kidding? NHS performance this winter was the worst on record – before a single patient developed coronavirus Covid-19. Decades of under-investment in all public services were followed by the past ...