Socialist Democracy

Socialist Democracy Statement on Coronavirus pandemic - 28/03/20
The sick and dying economic system that systematically degraded the global environment has taken a life threatening seizure.
They are trying to manage that collapse in their own interests no matter what the cost to the old, the poor and the oppressed of
the world. The capitalists, fearing for the security of their inhumane system, cynically attempt to turn this disaster to their own
advantage so they can ensure that any money spent today can be extracted from the workers when the virus subsides. (read more)

Coronavirus Update! Two Important Reveals - 22/05/20
Two of the nagging questions surrounding the development of the coronavirus have been answered this week in so far as such
queries can be cleared up. The queries cover the extent of the spread of the viral infection through the general population and the
extent to which a previously infected person has acquired immunity. (read more)

Department of Health's Statement on Vitamin D - 21/05/20
The Department of Health's statements have become a regular feature of the British Government response to the coronavirus
pandemic, the making of assertions and the dispensing of advice while paying no regard to what others, meaning non-British
scientists and experts, have been saying and doing. (read more)

Unionism’s silent shift on the pandemic - 16/05/20
In the general fog a significant but silent shift has taken place in Ulster Unionism. Arlene Foster, the Democratic Unionist Party’s
leader, alongside Sinn Fein’s Michelle O'Neill, announced a five-point plan for a gradual emergence from the restrictions imposed
by Covid-19. (read more)

Protest, class conflict and Covid 19 - 06/05/20
The hypocritical mantra that 'we are all in this together' is slowly being replaced by the equally false concern for the working class
and the small businesses not considered 'essential' who need 'help' to return to work. (read more)

Ideology and Science - 05/05/20
It has been reported by the Sunday Times newspaper that Sir David King a former Chief Scientific Advisor to the British Government is
to set up an alternative scientific advisory group to the current one. The alternative advisory group are to go online with their recommendations
and conduct open access conversations with the best scientists willing to participate in democratic debate (read more)

Stormont fails on workers safety - 28/04/20
The publication of an essential workers list by the Stormont Executive has displayed once again its inability to offer any protection
to the working class in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Such a list had been promised after protests by workers over unsafe conditions
at a number of food processing plants. (read more)

Big Pharma in Ireland - 24/04/20
Capitalism is in crisis but the intensity of that crisis is not evenly spread across all sectors. Some will do well out of it in the medical
and pharmaceutical industries and as the race for a vaccine heats up the bourgeois press boasts of the power of capitalism to defeat
the disease. (read more)

Covid-19 pandemic cracks facade of unity at Stormont - 16/04/20
The declarations of a new found approach and unity of purpose that accompanied the restoration of the Stormomt Executive
in January have quickly given way to the well worn rhetoric and operating methods that accounted for the demise of its
predecessor. (read more)

Ireland's rump government plan for survival after Covid 19 lockdown - 15/04/20
Many of the major issues of Irish society, claimed by the government to be insoluble because of the lack of a money tree,
disappeared overnight. An army of homeless were ushered into empty hotels. For the first time in its history the Irish state conjured
up a national health service by renting the large private sector. (read more)

Correspondence: Coronavirus Testing: Some Facts about Germany - 12/04/20
Many European Governments have been slow to begin testing for the prevalence of the coronavirus. It is common sense to see that
no rational social policy can be enacted without a good awareness of the extent of the spread of the virus within
the population. (read more)

Correspondence: The Trivial Matter of Naming Things! - 08/04/20
When a mysterious disease was reported in Wuhan in late December 2019, the cause of the disease was found to be a novel corona
virus, on 11th February the World Health Organization announced that the official name of the disease would be Covid -19. This is
not the formal medical name. (read more)

Europe and the pandemic - 09/04/20
At first sight the Covid-19 pandemic and the conjoined economic crisis seem to support the picture from classical economics
of an external shock upsetting an otherwise stable system. The evidence does not support that theory. The global economy did
not recover from the 2008 credit crunch. (read more)

Covid-19 walkouts - 08/04/20
The callous self interest of companies determined to carry on without taking even the most basic of precautions against the
Coronavirus has produced a response by workers worried about infection. The demands that are being raised by these workers
are in line with the recommendations made by health professionals worldwide on cleaning and hygiene. (read more)

Correspondence: Corona Virus Testing Flawed but necessary - 05/04/20
There is still no capacity available in any country in the world to carry out a thorough and accurate mass testing. One thing that
might be useful is to use the new anti-body test to survey the population. (read more)

Correspondence: ‘Test Test Test’ should mean Mass Testing! - 28/03/20
As all manner of right-wing Governments take on emergency powers to control the virus pandemic, powers that they may never
relinquish, the alternative to police State lockdowns is being ignored. (read more)

Correspondence: The Corona Virus, Not just A Moral Panic - 14/03/20
When social and political commentators first began to take notice of the Covid 19 viral infection the typical response was that it was
no more than another 'moral panic' brought on by social media and the fake news and rumour that is part and parcel of the internet.
The typical 'sophisticate' scorned the medical scare mongers. (read more)