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TORY VIRUS FAILURE COSTS LIVES

LACK OF EQUIPMENT IS ‘NATIONAL SCANDAL’ >>PAGE 7 PEOPLE FORCED INTO WORK BY

GREEDY BOSSES >>PAGE 17 VULNERABLE PEOPLE HAVE CARE WITHDRAWN >>PAGE 4

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NHS CORONAVIRUS CRISIS HISTORY
BLOOD
The myth of the
‘Blitz Spirit’
during the war

THE “BLITZ Spirit” was
always a propaganda ploy.
It is the mythology of a
peculiar British cult. Vera
Lynn singing, Spitfires flying
over Dover piloted by nice
public school boys, and Dad’s
Army as a documentary.
ON HIS
The myth was created at
the time of the Second World
War.
>>Pages 10&11

LABOUR

HANDS

After Corbyn—
why couldn't he

beat capital?

WITH THE winner of the
Labour leadership contest
set to be announced on
Saturday, it raises big
questions about why
Jeremy Corbyn and the
Labour left were defeated.
We look at his impact—
and at what happens when
THE CORONAVIRUS crisis has 100,000 unfilled vacancies, Labour’s methods are used
exposed the damage the Tories 17,000 beds closed in the last to win change.
have caused to the NHS. And it ten years and poorly paid, badly >>Pages 14&15 & 18
will cost lives. treated staff.
We need to demand that the We should build on the collec-
NHS gets all the resources it tive mood of support for the NHS AUSTERITY
needs—immediately. People must to fight for a properly funded,
come before profit. I privatisation-free health service. New UC benefit
t’s great to see people coming We need to build stronger oppo-
out at 8pm on Thursday evenings sition to the Tories who continue claims soar after
to applaud NHS workers. to gamble with our lives.
But the sight last week of Boris We don’t need “national unity” savage job cuts
Johnson and chancellor Rishi with Johnson and his toxic crew.
Sunak clapping on Downing Instead we need more of the NEARLY HALF a million
Street was staggering hypocrisy. strikes and other actions we have people put in claims for
The Tories have savaged the seen in Britain and across the Universal Credit (UC) in
NHS. It went into this crisis with world. a nine-day period as the
coronavirus crisis hit.
Hospitals out of protective kit Not enough beds, pledge to pay 80 percent of
It underlines how the Tory
some workers’ wages isn’t
equipment or workers Ministers lied about testing enough to protect people.
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