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Articles related to the global Coronavirus pandemic 2019-2020

Teachers in New York forced schools to close; we need to do the same

Don't play dice with people's lives. Close schools now, argues Shabbir Lakha
Laugh through the lockdown

Five of the best novels to keep you laughing while you sharpen your critical faculties from John Rees
The People vs The Government - People's Assembly statement

The People's Assembly Against Austerity's statement on the coronavirus crisis and the demands we're making
Branson's pickle

Richard Branson tries to be a poster boy for capitalism's supposed humanity but in truth he respresents its worst depravity, argues Morgan Daniels
Coronavirus is exposing capitalism - video

Kevin Ovenden speaks to Double Down News on how the nature of capitalism is being shown for what it is in this crisis
Counterfire during the Coronavirus: letter from the editor

A letter to our readers from Counterfire's editor, Katherine Connelly
Lessons from the Spanish flu of 1919: internationalism and people before profit

Internationalism and collective action of the working people is the way to resolve pandemics argues John Westmoreland
Covid-19: Shut the schools now

As coronavirus spreads, the long-term consequences of not closing schools are likely to be devastating
Coronavirus, climate, and capital: capitalism's destructive irrationality

Capitalism is subjecting itself to great strain and we must be prepared to help it on its way, writes John Clarke
Coronavirus, the market and who controls society? – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on COVID-19 and its impact
US sanctions on Iran are fuelling the spread of coronavirus

Trump's sanctions on Iran are limiting the country's ability to deal with the coronavirus outbreak effectively and it's costing lives, writes Jonathan Maunders
Coronavirus, science, and politics

Some notes on Coronavirus, science, and politics by John Rees
Italian workers strike for safety

Workers pull together in stand against virus, reports Giuseppe Franci
Lewisham Hospital workers walk out and demand to be paid and protected

The coronavirus crisis exposes the rot at the heart of Tory policy on the NHS as workers on the frontline of combating the pandemic are the worst treated, reports Tom Griffiths
Coronavirus: keep calm and carry on is not a policy but an abdication of responsibility

Government response is a key factor in how the virus is affecting populations and we will all pay for the inertia of our own, argues Kevin Potter
Sunak just proved you can spend big but still back the rich

The budget big spend offers nothing to working people argues Chris Nineham
Coronavirus: market failure

In his third note on the Covid-19 outbreak, Dr Yannis Gourtsoyannis examines the role of the market in the apparent crisis on our shelves
Coronavirus: 8 demands we should make on the government

Any effective response to the virus outbreak will require radical solutions that put human lives before profits and markets, argues Alistair Cartwright
Coronavirus – the trigger for a slump?

Michael Roberts explains why Coronavirus has destabilised the global economy
Class and the Coronavirus

We have to challenge the government’s response to Coronavirus which threatens to hit the poorest hardest and fails to address the structural problems around public health, argues Katherine Connelly
Coronavirus: how effective are facemasks?

In his second note on the political economy of the imminent Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Yannis Gourtsoyannis looks at the antinomies of facemasks
Notes on the political economy of the imminent Covid-19 pandemic: Conspiracies

Dr Yannis Gourtsoyannis addresses the conspiracies surrounding China's response to the spread of Covid-19
Chinese are not a virus; racism is

Solidarity, not stigma or division, is the key to beating this coronavirus, argues Lawrence Wong

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