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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Is Universal Basic Income a solution to insecurity and poverty?

  May 25, 2020 Tessa Warrington, Leicester Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

  Few could have imagined when the Tories won the 2019 general election in Britain that five months later they would be carrying through measures of state intervention beyond the scale even of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour [...]

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  Obituary

  Obituary: Mick Cotter (1957-2020)

  May 22, 2020 Tony Saunois, CWI Secretary

  It is with great sadness and regret that the Socialist Party has lost a dedicated comrade and friend of many members, Mick Cotter (21/09/1957 – 20/05/2020). Until the recent party congress, Mick had been a [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Stormont Assembly ministers fail care home workers and residents exposed to covid-19

  May 21, 2020 Councillor Donal O’Cofaigh, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, and CWI supporter

  It was always unavoidable that mistakes would be made during the handling of this pandemic. No public health threat on this scale has existed in any developed economy for many decades – and given that [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  Trump, coronavirus, capitalism, and the presidential race

  May 20, 2020 Claire Bayler, Independent Socialist Group executive committee, and Nicholas Wurst, ISG executive committee and TCU/IAM Local 1089 (personal capacity)

  Five months after Covid-19 reached the United States, the Trump administration and US capitalism have still failed to mobilise an effective response to the pandemic. Parts of the country began reopening for business on 1 [...]

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  Covid-19 Pandemic

  The Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it “fanned the flames of revolt”

  May 18, 2020 Book review by Hannah Sell Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales) general secretary

  Laura Spinney’s book, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (published by Cape), on the 1918 flu pandemic, was first published in 2017. Now in the midst of a [...]