March, 2021 - Real Left

Left-wing Cognitive Dissonance and the Art of Bullshit in the Covid Era

Real-Left22 March 202122 March 2021

“Whilst superficially based on an honorable tradition of advocating necessary health and safety measures for working people, the reality is that ‘don’t do anything until everything is a hundred percent risk free’ is not only an irrational, cynical, opportunistic, and unsustainable position, but a politically dangerous one in that has provided cover for an even more outrageous concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few that even existed before.”

Guest Article

Rally for Freedom 20/03 – Spring Equinox Politicking in Manchester

Emily21 March 202126 March 2024

By Emily Garcia On the day of the 2021 Spring equinox, Manchester joined the capital and dozens of cities in Europe and beyond in the coordinated ‘Worldwide Rally For Freedom’,...

Guest Article

COVID-19: an overview of the evidence

Real-Left18 March 202118 March 2021

The data is in: lockdowns serve no useful purpose and cause catastrophic societal and economic harms. They must never be repeated in this country

Guest Article

Fighting lockdown in California: A US teacher speaks

Real-Left18 March 202111 August 2021

Left Lockdown Sceptics interviews Andy Libson, an American anti-lockdown high school teacher and revolutionary socialist

Guest Article

The scarcity of neoliberalism: A Colombian perspective on Covid policies

Real-Left15 March 202115 March 2021

It was early on a sunny morning in April 2020 when I entered the store at the entrance of the compound where I used to live, located in a working-class neighbourhood in Bogota, to buy arepas (maize preparations) for my breakfast. As soon as I entered the old man who runs the store, certainly a migrant from a rural area judging by his accent, asked me behind his mask, ‘so, Paolita, how do you see the situation?’ To which I replied, ‘well Abelardo, we humans created this disaster, we now need to face it’.

Editorial

Mass civil disobedience needed to fight 1% NHS pay rise

Real-Left12 March 202113 March 2021

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.

Guest Article

Viruses in Humans and other Animals

Real-Left4 March 20218 March 2021

By Dr Heiko Khoo, PublicSafety.org.uk Microbiology is concerned with microbes, organisms that are invisible to the naked eye. They include bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, prions, protozoa and algae. Our bodies are...

Guest Article

The Virus, Lockdown and the Left

Phil Shannon3 March 20212 July 2021

When he was reflecting on the seemingly interminable periods of political stasis when nothing much changes, interrupted by concentrated outbreaks of dynamic political developments, Lenin astutely observed that “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”.

Critique

Comrades, Roll up your Sleeves!

Real-Left2 March 20218 March 2021

There is a nationwide stampede to get the covid jag. Critical voices are routinely blocked by fact checkers on the net. Any criticism is denounced as being from anti-vax conspiracy theorists. Those who opposing mass vaccination or show vaccine hesitancy are abused for being selfish or dangerous. The government are pushing forward with the idea of a vaccination passport, after months of denying they intended to introduce one. The pro-vaccine propaganda is reaching a crescendo.