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Hungarian left speaks out on coronavirus crisis

This is a social and humanitarian catastrophe, say the Workers’ Party of Hungary 2006, member of the Hungarian social roundtable and of the European Left. Read more »


Scrap Zero-Hour Contracts: end the two-tier workforce

A teacher writes on the huge problems facing supply teachers and education support workers: Read more »


Join the Right to Stay campaign

A new campaign from Another Europe is Possible launches today: The Covid-19 pandemic is dominating government policy, public health and public consciousness – and rightly so Read more »


Spain promotes contingency plan against domestic violence

As concerns rise internationally about the incidence of domestic violence during lockdown, the Spanish state’s Ministry of Equality has published a ‘Contingency Plan against gender violence Read more »


Cancel local authority debt

To provide councils with resources which are desperately needed for this unprecedented crisis, cancel the debt owed to the Public Works Loans Board, writes Martin Wicks. Read more »


Eastern Europe and the Pandemic – a petri dish for totalitarianism?

Joseph Healy writes: In Central and Eastern Europe the main threats to democracy have been in Hungary and Poland Read more »


The pandemic, the working class and the Left

Andrew Burgin writes: The Coronavirus pandemic is accelerating across the world. Every few days the scope and scale of the disease is increasing Read more »


Supporting survival

Felicity Dowling writes: Supporting the survival of as many people as possible (and survival to return to good health) Read more »


COVID-19 – Government Inaction Puts Disabled People’s Lives At Risk

Statement from Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance (ROFA), a national network of organisations run and controlled by disabled people in England. Read more »


FBU: Fire and rescue services lose hundreds of firefighters to self-isolation

Fire Brigades Union press release 20 March 2020 For immediate release Read more »



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