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Opinion: From Geopolitics to High Streets, Covid-19 Will Change Everything. Here’s Why.

When Covid-19 is eventually defeated the whole world will be very different. In its wake we must create a collective sense of purpose, writes Aaron Bastani, a shared desire to build something better than what came before.

Opinion: Undocumented Migrants Must Be Given Access to Healthcare and Welfare

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare and welfare provision must be made available to everyone, regardless of their immigration status, argues Benjamin Morgan.

Opinion: Coronavirus Has Destroyed the NHS Internal Market Overnight, Proving That It Never Worked

Covid-19 has forced the government to make drastic changes to the fundamental structure of the NHS as, under pressure to meet the demands of a pandemic, the internal market has fallen apart overnight, writes junior doctor Jo Sutton-Klein. We must demand that changes made now stay in place after the coronavirus crisis.

Opinion: Coronavirus Will Expose the Vast Inequality Between the Global North and South

The coronavirus pandemic has shown that rich countries can spend without limit to meet the needs of their populations. But poorer, less powerful countries quite literally can't afford to play by those rules, argues Grace Blakeley.

Opinion: Release Women From Prison and Give Them the Support They Need

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the government must urgently begin releasing women from prison, while also ensuring that they are supported after their release, writes Sophia Benedict.

Opinion: We Could Be Collecting Data on Coronavirus Cases, but the Government is Afraid of Being Embarrassed

Testing on the scale seen in countries like Korea might not be possible, but there are other ways the UK could gather data on the spread of Covid-19, writes junior doctor Jo Sutton-Klein. The problem may be that the government doesn't want to make too much data public.

Opinion: Northern Ireland Risks Being Left Without an Adequate Response to the Pandemic

From a neglected health service to a fragile political settlement, Northern Ireland is poorly placed to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, writes Patrick Geddis.

Opinion: We Must Democratise Our Economy or Face an Era of State Monopoly Capitalism

The Covid-19 pandemic is epoch-defining, writes Grace Blakeley. It could herald the end of the era of finance-led growth, and the beginning of state-monopoly capitalism. Socialists must adapt or face another lesson in disaster capitalism from the right.

Opinion: Without Bailouts Most Airlines Will Be Bankrupt by the End of May

Between the pressures of the Covid-19 outbreak, and the perils of climate change, the very nature of commercial aviation may be transformed in the coming years, writes Aaron Bastani.

Opinion: Coronavirus Will Require Us to Completely Reshape the Economy

This crisis will require more than money to resolve; it will require the restructuring of our economy. This will be done either to the benefit of people and the planet, or it will not be, writes James Meadway.

Opinion: Establishment Democrats Have It Wrong, Joe Biden Can’t Unify the Left

The calls have started for Bernie Sanders to drop out of the Democratic presidential race in a bid to unify the left. But frontrunner Joe Biden's seemingly innocuous 'middle-ground' politics have dangerous and oppressive consequences that risk creating further divisions, argues Oly Durose.

Opinion: Austerity Is Not Over and Coronavirus Will Prove It

The Tories may have broken with Osbornism, writes Grace Blakeley, but they have not made any changes that will substantively improve the lives of most people in the country, who are facing the combined threats of climate breakdown, a deep recession and a global pandemic after a decade of wage stagnation, rising private debt and the evisceration of the UK’s public services.

Opinion: Coronavirus: Make Private Hospitals Public Now

In this moment of crisis, we have a choice: either protect private profits, or save lives, writes Callum Cant.

Opinion: The 2020 Budget Shows the Tories Are Playing by New Rules

Did Rishi Sunak just end austerity? No. Is Britain adequately preparing for the panoply of crises set to define the coming decades? Also no. But make no mistake, writes Aaron Bastani, this was the first Tory budget since 2010 to abandon the neoliberal frame of ‘necessity', demonstrating how Labour under Corbyn won certain arguments.

Opinion: Taxing Times: With the Economy Unravelling, We Need a Budget for the Green New Deal

Released amid a collapsing stock market and plunging oil prices, Wednesday's budget is unlikely to meet the challenges ahead, particularly on the climate, write Adrienne Buller and Miriam Brett. A systems crisis demands a systems response, and overhauling the design of the tax system is central to this.

Opinion: No Wonder Priti Patel Is a Bully, She’s Just Practicing Her Politics

Priti Patel has been accused of bullying staff in several government departments. But news of the home secretary's bad behaviour should come as no surprise; abuse is an inherent part of the Conservative ideology, argues Harriet Williamson.

Opinion: People With Mental Health Problems Should Be Able to Talk About Politics, Not Just Their Conditions

People with mental ill health are encouraged to talk about their conditions, but they are often discouraged from addressing the political agenda that has both increased mental illness and left sufferers without recourse to services, writes journalist and advocate Harriet Williamson.

Opinion: Nobody Will Admit It, but Britain and America Were Defeated in Afghanistan

Britain and America lost the war in Afghanistan, argues Aaron Bastani, but our media, and many of the politicians who cheered on an utterly senseless conflict, refuse to say it. As long as that remains the case we are likely doomed to repeat the same mistakes again and again.