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Britain's Communists slam government's ‘incompetent and corrupt’ handling of the Covid-19 pandemic

BRITAIN’S communists have slammed the Tory government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic as an “incompetent and corrupt disaster.”

Communist Party of Britain northern district secretary Martin Levy told an online meeting of the party’s executive committee at the weekend that “millions” are paying a heavy price for the government’s determination to put big business profits before public health.

“As a result, many thousands more people have lost their lives, jobs are being destroyed and small businesses are going to the wall,” he remarked.

“Faced with the prospect of mass unemployment, our economy urgently needs a boost in demand and production, not a public-sector pay freeze and increased taxes on household spending.”

Mr Levy contrasted the government’s refusal to fund a supplementary pay rise for NHS staff to its readiness to spend an extra £4 billion a year on the military as part of what he described as “the new cold war against China and Russia.”

Britain’s communists urged trade unions to unite in a fight for public-sector pay rises and called for solidarity with workers taking action to defend jobs, hours and wages in the private sector.

The CP executive also attacked proposals in the UK Internal Market Bill to revoke or override decision-making powers previously granted to the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments, including those relating to state aid to industry.

And it also condemned the Labour leadership’s “dereliction of duty” in failing to resist Tory policies.

Mr Levy said: “Instead of attacking Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour left, Keir Starmer and general secretary David Evans should be discussing with trades unions, the People’s Assembly, the peace movement and civil liberties campaigners how to build an alliance against this increasingly authoritarian big business government.”

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