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health and social care

Was Zero Covid ever feasible? How capitalism deals with a pandemic

Posted on 2nd July 2022 by International Socialism

Two years have passed since John Parrington wrote in this journal that “if governments across the world had taken prompt action to stop the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in its tracks, much of the current crisis could have been avoided. Instead,… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised coronavirus, Health, health and social care

Socialism in a time of pandemics

Posted on 22nd March 2020 by International Socialism

It is tempting to see pandemics as unpredictable, cataclysmic incursions of nature into human society.1 Yet the outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) is anything but a “natural” phenomenon. Epidemics and pandemics happen in a social, political and economic context,… Continue Reading →

Analysis Agriculture, coronavirus, Ecology, Economics, Health, health and social care, The Economic Crisis

Neoliberalism and the crisis in health and social care

Posted on 29th June 2017 by Camilla

Health and social care provision around the globe is in crisis. Over a decade of neoliberalist health policy has reduced services to near breaking point. In the UK the pace of the attacks on the practice and principles of the… Continue Reading →

Article health and social care, NHS
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