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We need a zero-Covid strategy
by Diane Abbott MP and Morning Star editor Ben Chacko
A nurse works on a computer in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) in St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London, where the number of intensive care beds for the critically sick has had to be increased from 60 to 120, the vast majority of which are for coronavirus patients.
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
THE government has mishandled the coronavirus pandemic at every stage and led us to a disastrous series of outcomes. There is no more important issue currently facing us.
So, we are calling for the broadest possible coalition of all those who want the government to change course, to implement a series of measures that will work to suppress the virus.
Recent history in this country and internationally has shown that there can be no return to any semblance of normal existence until the virus is suppressed.
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