This meeting was held on Saturday September 19, 2020, and discussed the coronavirus pandemic, its impact on health workers and the need to form rank-and-file safety committees to protect and defend staff in this sector.
The pandemic, which has to date claimed over 900,000 lives globally, and infected nearly 30 million people, continues to spread rampantly around the world. This was both foreseeable and foreseen. The devastating loss of lives and livelihoods is not simply the result of the virus, but is the consequence of conscious decisions by capitalist governments, placing the interests of private profit above, and at the expense of, social need.
The safety and well being of health workers must be taken out of the hands of governments and unions who have no interest in this task. The Socialist Equality Party is fighting for the establishment of rank-and-file safety committees, controlled by workers themselves, to enforce health and safety conditions in workplaces and hospitals.
