Education, healthcare and housing

The use of DNR forms during the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed underlying problems with the way patients and the healthcare workers who care for them are treated by an underfunded system.

Three urgent demands we can be making to the government and four pieces of advice that we can share with older people we know right now.

A May Day tribute to the key workers who are keeping us going in the face of the coronavirus crisis, and to remember those who have died.

In the rising coronavirus death toll, black and brown people in the UK are represented in disproportionate numbers, due to not only discrimination and poverty, but because they make up a sizeable amount of the frontline workforce working without adequate PPE, argues Zita Holbourne.

Covid-19 is teaching us lessons that we need to learn fast to save lives now, and to prevent catastrophic climate change.

28 April is International Workers' Memorial Day. In 2020, people across the country and the world mourned those who died of coronavirus due to the lack of PPE in their workplaces.

Poem by Brian Parkin, based on an original by Harry Reed. Illustration by Mark Winter.

Estelle Cooch traces the contradictory history of childhood under capitalism. How do we defend childhood and fight for a world where play and creativity are not limited to children?

Jack Pickering reviews The Work Cure: critical essays on work and wellness

Turn International Workers’ Memorial Day on Tuesday 28 April into a powerful cry of grief and rage. The government hasn’t called a day of national mourning – we must make our own.