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The People's Assembly Against Austerity hold a foodbank outside 10 Downing Street
THE PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY has launched a “zero-Covid charter” demanding government action to stave off an impending second deadly wave of the coronavirus and to protect working people from the economic emergency.
The campaign group, which has regional and community-based groups across Britain, said the government “has failed the people at every possible point during their handling of the coronavirus pandemic,” leaving England with one of the highest death rates in the world and “an impending unemployment and poverty crisis” worse than that caused by the first wave of infections.
The People’s Assembly wants workers and their unions to mobilise behind the charter, whose demands include NHS control of the failed track & trace system, adequate protection equipment and full sick pay for front-line workers, NHS control and distribution of any vaccine, and for the NHS to take over the provision of care home services.
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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Our charter’s demands for fair pay, affordable housing and environmental security will recruit working-class youth into the political struggle for socialism, emulating the success of the Women’s Charter, writes YCL general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY