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With Covid restrictions being relaxed, the Morning Star is taking part in the People’s Assembly demo today – but the daily paper of the left still needs your support to make sure it survives, says editor BEN CHACKO
Covid-19 was born in the financial centres of London, Amsterdam, New York and Hong Kong.
Finance capital’s insatiable drive for infinite accumulation is also driving the ecological degradations that are causing the pandemics: the interminable expansion of fossil fuel production; the continuous expropriation of subsistence farmers in the global South and their displacement by corporate agribusiness and factory farming; the persistent deforestation and commodification of nature.
It is the fatal combination of all of these that is exposing us, repeatedly and at a terrifying rate, to so many dangerous new pathogens. Covid-19 isn’t the first pandemic this century, and it certainly won’t be the last.
SHEFFIELD Heeley CLP has passed a resolution calling for a complete change of policy in tackling Covid-19 by expressing support for the Zero Covid Coalition.
The backing is the latest sign of growing support for the Zero Covid campaign nationwide, which saw nurses, doctors, trade unionists and health campaigners stage a national day of action.
Campaigners oppose the government’s complacent “learn to live with it” policy, instead calling for a more effective lockdown.
This includes the replacement of the government’s discredited private test-and-trace system with one based on council, NHS and public health structures, and the exclusion of profiteers such as disgraced firm Serco.
IT IS staggering to see that the horrific milestone of more than 100,000 excess deaths is doing little to quiet the growing clamour to lift Covid-19 restrictions.
These deaths are more than just a set of grim daily statistics, they mark growing numbers of families being thrown into the long-term turmoil, insecurity and chaos that the loss of a loved one brings.
Each one of these deaths is someone’s parent, partner or child gasping for their last breath as the oxygen runs out in a hospital.
On the day that more than 100,000 deaths were announced the #Borishasfailedthenation hashtag trended on Twitter as a wave of public anger broke the surface.