April 2020
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Coronavirus Fact-Check #4: “Why are so many healthcare workers dying?”
The deaths of doctors, nurses and other medical workers has been a major talking point since the pandemic began. It started in Italy, where a website was set up listing the deaths of doctors who “died on the frontlines”. Despite being billed as “frontline” doctors, fifteen of the names are dentists. There are also surgeons,… Continue reading
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Statewatch: States of Control the dark side of pandemic politics: Webinar 29 April
This Wednesday, our friends at the Transnational Institute will be hosting a webinar to examine the repressive measures taken by states across the globe to address the coronavirus pandemic. The event starts at 16:00 Central European Time this Wednesday, 29 April. Statewatch is co-sponsoring the event, for wprivacyhich you can register online here. Continue reading
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Yes, the UK’s weekly death toll during Covid-19 is high
The death statistics being used by supporters of a prolonged lockdown, whatever the costs to our jobs, businesses and health, need careful and sober analysis. They raise more questions than they answer. Continue reading
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Covid-19 has a grandma, grandpa and great grandpa. Where are they? By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The search for the genesis of Covid-19 is developing into an epic story. Thanks to the insinuations by the US President Donald Trump — ‘China virus’, ‘Wuhan virus’, etc. — that were explosive in their political and strategic content, Beijing is now more determined than ever to get to the bottom of the story. Continue reading
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Netanyahu’s coalition deal paves the way to annexation
Only weeks ago, Benjamin Netanyahu was a hair’s breadth from being ousted from the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office in disgrace, after 11 years of continuous rule. But after a dramatic turnaround in fortunes last week – that saw him signing a pact with Benny Gantz, his chief political rival – Netanyahu has begun to rapidly… Continue reading
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Prof. Neil Ferguson defends UK Coronavirus lockdown strategy
Earlier this month, Swedish epidemiologist Johan Giesecke claimed in an interview with UnHerd that the UK was wrong to implement its lockdown measures, and singled out Professor Neil Ferguson’s Imperial study for being too pessimistic in its prediction of 500k corona deaths. Describing it as “not very good”, Giesecke was surprised it had such an… Continue reading
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This Week in The Guardian #5 – Coronavirus Special
Our weekly feature rounding up the more shallow and vapid aspects of The Guardian‘s nonsense was one of the unnamed early victims of the coronavirus. When all the headlines are about the same thing, there suddenly seems little point in highlighting the silliest examples. Plus…there’s only so many hours in a day. Continue reading
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Tory party implosion and the blame game – here’s what’s coming next
By TruePublica Editor: The weakness of the Boris Johnson government has been thrown into the light in the last few weeks and it is deflecting from the task at hand – to manage the ongoing COVID-19 crisis that, by the end of wave one of several waves, is likely to have killed some 50,000 people. Continue reading
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When war looms, protect the truth at all cost
The tone and content of the accusations levelled by the imperialists at China has changed. From blaming China to now holding it responsible and demanding reparations, not for the deaths of its citizens, but as is the capitalist way, for their financial losses. The nature of these aggressive demands could lead to war. The purpose… Continue reading
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CORONAVIRUS: Perspectives from on the ground in Sweden
As Europe and North America continue to descent into economic and social chaos after imposing ‘Lockdown’ on their populations, other countries have opted to keep their economies and societies open with no lockdown. One example is the relative success of Scandanavian country of Sweden. While countries like the UK and US continue to see unusually… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2020
25 April 2020– Climate & Capitalism Six important new books: The Return of Nature … Deaths of Despair … Rebel Cinderella … August Bebel … The Green New Deal and Beyond … The Triumph of Doubt Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link Continue reading
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UK: Mission Creep – Yet more intrusive surveillance powers given to government
Back in 2016 – TruePublica wrote: “One should wonder where the universal surveillance system dubbed the ‘snoopers charter’ being installed by Britain’s government is heading for eventually. Recently described by Edward Snowden in tweets as the “most intrusive and least accountable surveillance regime in the West” and its “a comprehensive record of your private activities,… Continue reading
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Damascus life & calm
Scenes from April 21, walking through old Damascus, where shops have re-opened partially and where calm and humanity prevail Continue reading
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Britain: the capitalist press – “a great keyboard on which the government can play”
24 April 2020 — In Defence of Marxism Ben Gliniecki Image: Socialist Appeal This article was written before the coronavirus pandemic, but with the press spending weeks subjecting the Tories to nothing but uncritical “wartime” coverage, and now fawning over the establishment-friendly Labour leader Keir Starmer, the points it makes are more valid than ever. Continue reading
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The Greek tragedy: Act Three
On Thursday night, EU leaders again failed to agree on how to provide proper fiscal support for hard-hit member states to cope with the health costs of the coronavirus pandemic and collapse of their economies from the lockdowns. Continue reading
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Palestinians hunker down for Ramadan, facing a virus that doesn’t discriminate but an occupier that does
As the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the coronavirus outbreak in Israel and the Palestinian territories is proving how inevitably intertwined the two populations’ lives are, while also underlining the extreme differentials of power between them. Continue reading
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Trump was given ‘realtime updates’ over Covid-19 as the pandemic developed
US SCIENTISTS at the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters gave US President Donald Trump “real-time updates” about the emergence and spread of coronavirus in China in late 2019, undermining his claims that the organisation covered up information in the early stages of what became a pandemic. Continue reading
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USA: Exceptionalistic Claptrap
Their fundamental assumptions about the U.S. is that it is exceptional only in its warmongering and cruelty. Poll after poll have shown that “the world” does not have a widely positive picture of the U.S. It instead sees it as the greatest threat Continue reading
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Towards A New World Order?
While the lockdown is presented to public opinion as the sole means to resolving a global public health crisis, its devastating economic and social impacts are casually ignored. Continue reading
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Slavoj Zizek on Coronavirus: “Things will not go back to normal.”
In his recent chat with Renata Ávila for DiEM25 TV, Zizek discussed the Coronavirus pandemic, the ways in which governments are responding to the crisis, why it proves Bernie Sanders right and why this might be the opportunity for a new kind of politics. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 