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How to Save Lives: Healthcare Worker Demands

By JB & Plan C Health Group. Epidemiologists, healthcare experts and environmental scientists all knew a pandemic would come. Everything that is happening has been anticipated. Despite these facts, the UK government has systematically dismantled institutional capacities of the NHS and refused to follow advice from scientists and medical experts. We now face an unprecedented […]

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Coronavirus, Healthcare

1st April 2020

Responsibilising Corona

By Cyril Winstanley The UK government has launched its new hashtag, ‘StaySafeSaveLives’. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tweeted, in the know-it-all tone of contemporary social media: “Stay two metres apart. It’s not such a difficult thing. Do it. It really will save lives.” The short imperative sentences with their strong sense of righteousness come from a man who, at

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Coronavirus

24th March 2020

No security in times of crisis

By Iida K Times of crisis give rise to emergency powers. The main function of these powers is to extend the capacity of the state to control the population. The state is built on one central premise: the provision of security for its population, in exchange for obedience and loyalty. This social contract might at

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Coronavirus

19th March 2020

Covidnomics: Facing the Contradictions, Imagining New Worlds

After an escalation of measures to contain the spread of the Coronavirus, Italy has been in full lockdown for a week while a campaign for a “quarantine income” has taken off there. As more countries are implementing social distancing measures, we have translated this text by Eleonora Priori, originally published by NERO editions, partly as

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Coronavirus

17th March 2020

Pandemic Demands and Mutual Aid

By Al Mikey and Julia H We are in the midst of a surreal time. Everything is changing fast in a way that many of us feared and hoped we would not experience. As we enter into a stage of mass social distancing and the crisis deepens, we must not let it scare us into

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Coronavirus, Counter-power

16th March 2020

Pandemic Inequalities, Pandemic Demands

We need to recognise that ‘staying at home’ doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. For some, homes are a sanctuary. For others, the home is another place of work, where cooking, cleaning and childcare take up the majority of their time and energy. There are many for whom the home is a place of

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Coronavirus

15th March 2020