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TD Brid Smith makes the case for putting health before profit by moving beyond the markets which have actively hampered our ability to obtain lifesaving PPE. It beggars belief that in 2020 we are witnessing a severe shortage of very basic equipment to assist health workers in the war against
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Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, even the most conservative of columnists are highlighting societies ills, but talk doesn’t guarantee change. According to Eamonn McCann, we have a fight on our hands. The poorer you are, the more likely you are to contract Covid-19. Take New York. The five
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Fine Gael have received some praise for their handling of the coronavirus crisis. But as Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin lays out the facts, the truth behind the grandstanding makes for uncomfortable reading. Leo Varadkar and Simon Harris are in the National Virus Reference Laboratory in UCD. They’re wearing lab coats
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Denis Kosuth, Chicago Nurse and socialist activist, explains how COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths expose systemic racism and the depths of racial inequality in the U.S. The numbers of diagnosed cases and a corresponding death count continue to rise exponentially – indicating that the U.S. is a far way
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Half of all COVID-19 deaths so far in Ireland were residents in nursing homes. North and South, a reliance on private nursing homes & the deprioritisation of elderly care have worsened the impact of COVID-19 for the elderly. At the time of writing there were 119 reported clusters
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A DUP Councillor recently caused controversy by blaming the onset of the Coronavirus on the decriminalisation of abortion and the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Isn’t he simply being consistent? asks Eamonn McCann. Ballymena DUP councillor John Carson has taken a bit of a battering for saying he believed
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Kieran Allen, People Before Profit activist and Professor of Sociology at UCD, discusses the need for public ownership – a socialist demand which has been given renewed focus as futility of reliance on the market is exposed by the Covid-19 crisis.
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Clearer than ever, we can see that those workers who have historically been the poorest paid are some of the most important of all. Eddie Conlon argues it’s time to pay them what they deserve. The Covid-19 crisis has shone a light on those who really matter in
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New York City is the epicentre of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. At the time of this interview, there have been over 2,400 deaths in NYC alone. Hospitals are overwhelmed, and an already starved healthcare system at breaking point, just weeks into the surging crisis. Anger
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With half the world’s population living under enormous social restrictions due to the coronavirus, one European country has taken a starkly different approach. Madeleine Johansson reports on the reckless approach of Swedish authorities. While most of Europe is on lockdown as a result of the coronavirus, the Swedish situation
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The roots of Ireland’s housing crisis are entirely solvable, if only need were put before profit, argues PBP Cllr Tina MacVeigh. Now that the COVID-19 crisis is forcing the Irish government to take drastic measures, we must ensure there is no going back. We are living through a
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The Coronavirus crisis has laid bare the lengths capitalism will go to in order to preserve its profits, putting workers, families, and wider society at serious risk. Eddie Conlon reports on workers leading the fightback the world over. “They don’t care about our health!” So says a Pittsburgh sanitation