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Covid-19: the battle in the workplace

Posted on 8th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A pandemic is first of all a public health crisis. But when containing the infection requires a dramatic reduction in social contact, it rapidly becomes a workplace issue. Under normal circumstances, each day millions of people are concentrated in often… Continue Reading →

Article British working class, coronavirus, Health, Strikes

A triple crisis

Posted on 6th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the emergency brake. Walter Benjamin, 1940, Notes for “On… Continue Reading →

Analysis coronavirus, Ecology, Health, Labour Party, The Economic Crisis, The United States, Tories

Socialism in a time of pandemics

Posted on 22nd March 2020 by Richard Donnelly

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

Privatising the NHS

Posted on 5th July 2013 by ISJ

The National Health Service (NHS) has barely been out of the news in recent months: the publication of the Francis Report on the events at the mid-Staffordshire hospital, which has now been put into administration; the measles outbreak in south… Continue Reading →

Analysis Health, NHS

Capitalism, class, health and medicine

Posted on 25th June 2009 by ISJ

Over the past 30 years—during all the time we have been told that class is dead—something strange has been happening in the study of health. A generation of epidemiologists who study patterns of death (mortality) and illnesses (morbidity) have been… Continue Reading →

Analysis Health
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