April, 2021 - Real Left

Why capitalism now needs ‘lockdowns’ (social enclosure) and ‘medical’ tyranny

Real-Left30 April 202130 April 2022

Left Lockdown Sceptics hosts an excerpt of this excellent article by Ted Reese. Because capitalism is working towards its own abolition by replacing commodity-producing labour with automated machines, the profitability...

Editorial

Fighting lockdown in California: A US teacher speaks part 2

Real-Left27 April 202127 April 2021

San Francisco science teacher and US socialist Andy Libson has been campaigning for schools to resume in-person teaching in California. California is still suffering under a hard lockdown imposed by...

News

India’s Current ‘COVID Crisis’ in Context

Jo Nash26 April 202118 May 2021

The mainstream media’s reporting on the ‘COVID crisis’ in India has clearly been governed by a global approach to messaging that appears to aim at ramping up fear of ‘new...

News

March for Freedom, London 24th April 2021

David Fletcher25 April 202125 April 2021

Yesterday was the March for Freedom in central London, following on from the one last month in London and Manchester. As a trade unionist and socialist I have been on...

Editorial

Book Review: The COVID Consensus- The New Politics of Global Inequality by Toby Green

Jo Nash21 April 202121 April 2021

Historian Toby Green’s new book ‘The COVID Consensus- The New Politics of Global Inequality’ [1] is a rigorously researched study of the development of the global lockdown consensus following the...

Guest Article

LLS supporter Steve Jack is standing for the Freedom Alliance

Real-Left18 April 202121 April 2021

I’m delighted to be standing as the Freedom Alliance candidate in this important by-election, and to be in with a chance of becoming Hartlepool’s next MP. I currently live in...

Analysis

Returning to the office: Legions of the vaxxed

David Fletcher15 April 202115 April 2021

I work for a medium sized company and have spent nearly all of the last six months working from home. This was a blessing in disguise because it provided me...

Guest Article

India is under another lockdown. Why?

Jo Nash14 April 202121 April 2021

Following some news articles announcing India had reached near herd immunity and widespread reports on the ground of services and businesses opening up [1], most of the country has once...

Guest Article

The Russian periphery of 100 million-plus people has suffered fewer state interventions than Sweden

Real-Left7 April 20217 April 2021

Greetings to my fellow sceptic comrades! I come from an Eastern European country that was highly praised in summer 2020 for ‘defeating the coronavirus’. My country's success cost me six...

Analysis

Real COVID death rate 0.15%

Real-Left1 April 20211 April 2021

New study finds global infection fatality rate is 0.15% All systematic evaluations of seroprevalence data converge that SARS‐CoV‐2 infection is widely spread globally. Acknowledging residual uncertainties, the available evidence suggests...