A virus is haunting Europe - the vector is capitalism
The novel coronavirus is infectious, deadly and invisible to the naked eye. It spreads exponentially, has traversed the globe and today poses a threat to the very foundations of modern civilisation. All these properties it shares with capitalism.
The implications of the coronavirus outbreak are becoming clearer day by day. The pandemic will affect every aspect of our lives and put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk. The UK government is still avoiding radical measures to suppress the...
The coronavirus outbreak is triggering an economic recession far deeper than the one that followed the 2008 banking crash. Chunks of the money mountain are breaking off and sliding into an abyss. While we struggle to get used to the lockdown,...
The novel coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll on all of us - especially those who have died, those needing urgent care, and those least able to retreat into their homes until the worst is over.
Fuel Poverty Action is calling on the government and energy suppliers to make sure that the coronavirus crisis does not leave people in the cold or dark.
We are all facing challenges on a scale that would have been unimaginable only a few months ago. All over the country, people frightened for the health of their loved ones are also worrying how they will pay their rent, feed their families and...
We can help one another through this epidemic, and simultaneously organize to make governments, employers, welfare offices and landlords give us what we will need to survive.
'With little more than an overnight bag, our phones and laptops, Geoff and I found ourselves standing with ash on our faces, smoke in our hair, and in a new world shifted on its axis.'
'Protecting forests will help safeguard our future'
For most people - an obvious exception being those who lived through the Ebola outbreak in Liberia in 2014 - the coronavirus pandemic marks a sudden, disorienting lurch into the unknown. Lives, businesses and whole economies are being upended at...
Oil giants' greed is 'huge betrayal of the future'
How will future historians answer when asked questions about which actors or factors were the biggest obstacles to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the 2000s?
Financial connections between some of the world's most controversial corporations and leading UK engineering and science organisations uncovered in new research.
