Think current lockdown is tough? One group is calling for a TOTAL shut down of everything in a zero Covid campaign to eradicate the virus. Campaigner Roy Wilkes argues that these extreme measures are actually the best way to bring freedom and normality back to the UK. RT UK is a channel based in London covering British news and politics, protests and interviews with people who make a difference. SUBSCRIBE: http://youtube.com/RTUKnews FOLLOW ON INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/rtuknews/ FOLLOW ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/RTUKnews LIKE ON FACEBOOK: http://fb.com/RTUKnews READ MORE http://rt.com/uk/

Online rally to launch Zero Covid: the campaign to beat the pandemic. * Dr Gabriel Scally (Independent SAGE, personal capacity) * Janet Newsham (Hazards Campaign) * Larissa Kennedy (President of the National Union of Students, personal capacity) * Clare Rayner (Long Covid) * Louise Regan (national officer and former President of the National Education Union, personal capacity) * Elane Heffernan (Chair of UCU Disabled Members' Committee and NEC, personal capacity) * Dalbir Dhillon (Vice-president, RMT Manchester Victoria branch, personal capacity) * Dr Emma Runswick (British Medical Association activist, personal capacity) * Q&A with participants For more information see www.zerocovid.uk

2021 must be the year of #ZeroCovid! England's four-tier system is a failure. Test and Trace is not doing its job. The Westminster government battled to keep schools open against educators and medical experts’ advice, and only the opposition of teaching unions was able to stop it. There is no plan to get us out of this cycle of restrictions. In Scotland too, despite Holyrood steering a different course at times, infection rates are rising rapidly. Zero Covid is the alternative. It's a strategy to eliminate the virus, which means a working Test and Trace system, support for people to enable them to isolate, and ensuring all workplaces which are open are certified Covid-Safe. Restrictions on our lives can be lifted once these elements are in place and new cases drop off. Read more at https://zerocovid.uk/ and https://www.independentsage.org/. On Saturday 16th January 2021 the Zero Covid campaign will be holding an online conference to discuss how we can build a movement to force policy makers to adopt a Zero Covid strategy. Register: https://rebrand.ly/zcconference Full agenda: https://zerocovid.uk/conference Agenda: Session 1: Understanding the pandemic Discuss the latest developments in the pandemic and responses to it. 10:00: plenary speakers - Chair: Hilda Palmer (Hazards Campaign for workplace safety) - Professor Michael Baker (New Zealand Ministry of Health's Pandemic Influenza Technical Advisory Group, pc) - Professor Susan Michie (Independent SAGE, pc) - Hector Wesley (Black Activists Rising Against Cuts) - Janet Newsham (Hazards Campaign for workplace safety) - Diane Abbott MP 10:55: breakout groups Discussion in smaller groups to come up with questions and points to raise in the main group 11:20: plenary questions and discussion 12:00: lunch break We are hoping to add a musical performance between 12:00 - 12:30 Session 2: Campaigning for Zero Covid 12:45: plenary speakers - Chair: Dr Emma Runswick (British Medical Association activist, pc) - Richard Burgon MP - Bella Ruiz Aristizabel (SAGE care home striker) - Ann Galpin (Co-Chair, TUC disabled workers committee, pc) - Jim Harte (Unite Rosyth, pc) - Helen McFarlane (NHS worker, Scotland) - Kevin Courtney (Joint General Secretary, National Education Union) 13:40: workshops A chance to discuss campaigning for a Zero Covid strategy in a variety of areas - setting up campaign groups, planning lobbying, campaign action, getting more people on board etc. Participants can choose one workshop: - Schools (staff, parents and students) - Campuses (staff and students) - Workplace organising around safety - Building a local Zero Covid group - Defend Our NHS - Poverty, benefit and cuts - Scotland - Wales - Zero Covid in the Labour Party - Organising care workers for Zero Covid - Housing is health 14:30: close

An online teach-in with Mike Davis Please join an online teach-in with renowned activist-scholar Mike Davis, author of numerous books, including The Monster at Our Door, In Praise of Barbarians, and the forthcoming Set the Night on Fire. Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 5:00 PM Eastern Sponsored by Haymarket Books and Verso Books Fifteen years ago, in his prescient book, The Monster At Our Door, Mike Davis warned that a viral catastrophe was being cooked up in the toxic vat built by the combined dangers of global capitalist production, ecological devastation, and the intentional, politically motivated neglect of public services the world over. As coronavirus continues to spread, largely unabated, we are witnessing both profound acts of solidarity among working people, and the grotesque depths to which the ruling class is willing to sink for the sake of maintaining their profits. And these are only the early days of what will likely become a medical Katrina. The pandemic has shown that capitalist globalization is biologically unsustainable in the absence of a truly international public health infrastructure, and we can say for sure that such an infrastructure will never exist until peoples’ movements break the power of Big Pharma and for-profit health care. Doing so will demand an independent socialist design for human survival well beyond even a Second New Deal. In this virtual teach-in, Mike Davis will offer his appraisal of the crisis so far, discuss the urgent need for international solidarity to end this (and future) pandemics, and take questions from our digital audience. Further info: Read Mike Davis’s latest on the Coronavirus at Jacobin, “Mike Davis on Coronavirus: “In a Plague Year” https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/mike-davis-coronavirus-outbreak-capitalism-left-international-solidarity Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks https://www.haymarketbooks.org/ Subscribe to Haymarket Books on YouTube to find out about other upcoming virtual events. Ten Free Ebooks from Haymarket Books https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/112-ten-free-ebooks-from-haymarket-books Verso Books @versobooks https://www.versobooks.com Take 80% OFF all eBooks, and 40% off all print books when ordering directly from Versobooks.com Five Free Quarantine Ebooks from Verso https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4604-free-quarantine-ebooks