The campaign to beat the pandemic
Part 3 of Collective Commons, Debts and Pharmaceutical companies’ Patents Research and production of vaccines were largely financed by public money The development and production of anti-Covid vaccines were extensively financed by public money The development and production of anti-Covid … Read more
Part 2 of Collective Commons, Debts and pharmaceutical companies’ patents Patents, TRIPS and Big Pharma… Not only does Big Capital not share scientific findings but it grabs them and makes others pay for them Knowledge, scientific discoveries, and technical processes … Read more
The world is facing devastating vaccine apartheid. High income countries like the UK have ordered more than 3 times the amount of doses they’ve needed, whilst only 3 per cent of people are double vaccinated in Africa and 0.5% double … Read more
Last week at our campaign call we discussed the situation in India and the issue of global vaccine apartheid. Sarbjit Sohal from South Asia Solidarity suggested ways that activists here in the UK can support people in India. You can … Read more
Even a stopped watch shows the right time twice a day. Boris Johnson’s gamble of placing advance orders for 400 million doses of a range of vaccines appears to have paid off. Thanks to an extraordinary effort by local public … Read more
Use this quick tool to send an email to your MP asking them to add their voice to those calling for a Zero Covid strategy by signing Early Day Motion 1450! The UK has seen over 150,000 excess deaths since the start … Read more
On 9 November Pfizer/BioNTech issued a press release to say that their Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective. What that means is that only 10% of the people who caught the virus, after having been randomly injected with two doses of … Read more
All the talk in the media is of “light at the end of the tunnel” following the news about the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine. While this development is indeed good news, we certainly aren’t at the end of the tunnel yet. Will … Read more