Venezuela demands release of gold kept by Bank Of England to help fight COVID-19
Venezuela’s Central Bank (BCV) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) agreed to use part of the country $1.02 billion with of gold deposited in the Bank of England to acquire food and medicine to face the Covid-19 pandemic, BCV President Calixto Ortega declared on Wednesday (27 May 2020).
The Latin American country and United Nations will seek to release the gold held by the Bank of England with Venezuelan authorities appearing at an expedited court hearing in London today (28 May 2020).
YCL: Cummings must go – and take the government with him
The Young Communist League has issued an updated statement on the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic in response to the fiasco at Downing Street.
Vietnam: 39 straight days without COVID-19 transmission
Vietnam had no new COVID-19 cases to report this morning (25 May 2020), meaning the socialist country remained clear of community transmission of the disease for 39 consecutive days, according to Vietnam’s National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Times are changing – and we have to capitalise on the opportunity
The recent outbreak of Coronavirus, and subsequent global Covid-19 pandemic, have exposed the true failings of neoliberalism and late-stage capitalism. There can be no doubt over the extent to which the past ten years of Tory austerity have decimated our public services and resulted in the social murder of our class. But it has also […]
Dominic Cummings flagrantly breached lockdown at height of pandemic
It has emerged that, senior No.10 aide Dominic Cummings travelled hundreds of miles from London to County Durham during the lockdown when he had virus symptoms. This comes after the resignation of Prof. Neil Ferguson, who ignored the law to visit his partner in another home. Back in April the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, Dr Catherine Calderwood was also forced to resign after flouting lockdown measures, which she herself had advocated for.
China pledges COVID-19 vaccine will be “global public good”
Speaking at the 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) yesterday (18 May 2020) via video link, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that any vaccine to COVID-19 developed by China would be made available as a “global public good”.
Covid-19: The Vietnamese Offensive
Trade unionist and member of the Communist Party of Ireland, Kerry Fleck, argues that Vietnam’s socialist model has been key to its world leading response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Billionaire bosses claiming under furlough scheme
It has been revealed that some of Britain’s richest bosses and most notorious capitalists have been among those to benefit from the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
The Impact of COVID-19 in Europe
The Communist Party has produced a comprehensive report on the global impact of COVID-19. The following excerpt on Europe details the differing impact of the pandemic across a number of European States.
An Open Letter to all Working People from the Communist Party
Dear comrade, sister or brother, The Communist Party is writing to you as one of the millions of people whose work keeps our society going in good times and bad. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the value of all those workers who have continued to provide the goods and services that we all need to […]
