Frontline COVID testing: Tory incompetence and capitalist looting
Across the country, private biomedical and biotechnological firms have been brought in to bolster the government’s COVID-19 testing abilities. This follows a decade of Tory-sanctioned looting of the NHS. I was More...
Europe’s COVID-19 second wave: criminal capitalist negligence
Europe is in the middle of a deadly second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. This new wave of infections now accounts for half of all daily COVID-19 deaths worldwide and the figure is already higher than during the More...
Winning the future: socialist solutions to a capitalist crisis
“WINNING the future,” as the new pamphlet published by the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs is called, is a timely call on the left to think strategically — and to think big. “Talk of historic moments More...
Tear down the racist statues – and the racist capitalist system
The ruling class has raised a hue and cry over the toppling of the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston in Bristol, since it was thrown into the River Avon by local activists on 7 June. This wasn’t meant More...
Filth: Single-use Plastics Tell a Story of Capitalist Greed and Planetary Catastrophe
It was 1997, and yachtsman Charles Moore was trying to get home. His boat was cutting a line through the chasms of Pacific water stretching from Hawaii east to California, when the sea around him began to thicken More...
Our Capitalist Society Has Always Devalued Disabled People. Coronavirus Has Made This Clear
“Whoever thought we would look back on austerity as the good times?” disabled activist Andy Greene asked, at an online meeting last month. “We thought it couldn’t get much worse, then Covid came More...
Capitalist economics and the politics of death
The more terrible the reports of death and human suffering, the more ecstatic the response of Wall Street. The fight against the pandemic is the fight against capitalism and for socialism. World Socialist Web Site More...
New horizons during Covid-19: beyond the limits of capitalist realism
Through the Covid-19 crisis we glimpse the need for change and the possibility of change, argues Mike Wayne Counterfire Daily More...
The capitalist system in meltdown
“People are running scared,” said Andrew Sullivan, director at Hong Kong brokerage Pearl Bridge Partners, as the capitalist system faces an economic meltdown. This is Black Monday all over again. Stock markets More...
