Tag: Anarchist Communist Group

UK. March 23, 2020. Many of us have seen the heart-rending images of patients critically ill from Coronavirus lying in hospital corridors waiting to die in Italy. The number of patients far outweighs the amount of equipment and medicines available to treat them and medical staff have been forced into the agonising situation of having to decide who will be treated. Meanwhile in Spain and France the health services are overloaded and very soon it will be the same situation in North America and throughout much of Europe, including in Britain.

UK. March 24, 2020. We seem to be living in unprecedented times. With the world teetering on the edge of either the collapse of the financial system or environmental collapse, along comes this new coronavirus. A global pandemic has slowly forced the capitalists into almost becoming state socialists such is their desire to prop up this calamitous system that only benefits a wealthy, greedy minority. Hundreds of billions of dollars is being created through quantitative easing and other desperate measures whilst the UK government has said it will pay up to 80% of worker’s salaries if you are laid off because of the nationwide shutdown of non-essential services.

UK. March 19, 2020. The COVID-19 crisis has thrown a glaring searchlight on the state of health of capitalism. Here we analyse in detail the origins of the disease, its global consequences and what we, the working class can do about it.