OUR communities are being hit by the worst crisis in decades. Britain has had one of the highest Covid-19 death rates in the world — over 60,000 people have died so far, according to the official figures. Our National Health Service is stretched to breaking point, many public services are close to collapse, unemployment is rising and there’s a looming economic catastrophe. Yet rather than finding ways to protect our communities, the government has made it clear that it believes the working class should pay for this crisis. In its recent Spending Review, it decided to freeze pay for public-sector workers, increase benefits by a pathetic 37p, break its promises of minimum wage increases and threaten £20 cuts in universal credit.