How should the working class respond to a pandemic and protect workers鈥 interests at the same time? Malik Miah reports on the situation in the United States.
Vaccines and vaccination
As NSW eases聽restrictions for fully vaccinated people, vulnerable First Nations people are still struggling to be vaccinated, write聽Rachel Evans 补苍诲听Elliott Guerrero.
Socialist Alliance strongly supports vaccination as a public health measure. Vaccines should be free and easily available.
Criticism of the Victorian Police鈥檚 use of non-lethal weapons against anti-vax and anti-lockdown protesters is growing, reports Shane Pemmelaar.
Mainstream commentary about the almost daily anti-vaccination rallies in Melbourne this week has avoided analysing the complex motivations of the demonstrators and failed to聽suggest sensible ways of responding, argues Sue Bolton.
Conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers,聽far-right activists and some union members have attacked the聽Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union office in Melbourne over mandatory vaccinations for construction workers. Sue Bolton reports.
Government neglect is to blame for the COVID-19 crisis disproportionately affecting First Nations communities in regional New South Wales.聽Rachel Evans, Paul Oboohov, Coral Wynter report.
As a health worker and a trade unionist who supports a rapid mass rollout of the vaccines, I do not agree that employers should be allowed to force workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, argues Zita Henderson.
As the breakout of the Delta variant continues to grip Sydney, Sam Wainwright argues that it is obvious that the corporate-profits-first logic is incapable of dealing with the challenge efficiently or fairly.
Meraj Khan and David Shoebridge discuss vaccine nationalism and the ban on travel from India into Australia.
As the聽daily death toll in India from COVID-19 reaches聽3700 people, the headlines describing the situation there as an 鈥渁pocalypse鈥 are not wrong, writes聽Divya Garg.
Alex Bainbridge, Sarah Hathway 补苍诲听Sam Wainwright put the case for a health and justice-focussed聽response to the devestating outbreak of COVID-19 in India.聽
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