India’s Covid Crisis in Context – An Update
I’m writing this article as a follow up to my previous short piece which attracted a surprising amount of attention. The situation in India is rapidly evolving, so I’m adding...
Fighting lockdown in California: A US teacher speaks part 2
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...
Book Review: The COVID Consensus- The New Politics of Global Inequality by Toby Green
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...
Mass civil disobedience needed to fight 1% NHS pay rise
Although it his now rumoured that nurses will get 2%, the pay offer proves once and for all that the government isn’t locking us down to protect the NHS – it is using support for the NHS to justify an assault on workers’ rights. In reply, NHS workers should join the public in mass civil disobedience.
Messages of solidarity to all the anti-lockdown left
We launched Left Lockdown Sceptics without knowing what to expect. This site has been live for not even a whole week and we already have close to 400 subscribers! If...
An overwhelming response! And yes, we are socialists
Nearly a week has passed since our inaugural post and it seems to have made quite a stir. We would like to say a big THANK YOU to those who have sent us messages of support through the website – we have received over 80 so far!
Our analysis of lockdown and covid-fascism
We are a group of socialists in the UK who oppose lockdown policy on the basis that it doesn’t work, is based on bad science and causes unnecessary harm and deaths to society.