Protest is as Essential as Hand Washing
"We have two ongoing epidemics. One has been with us for only a few months; the other is over 400 years old." Joseph Godfrey on Covid-19 and protesting while Black.
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Posts tagged: covid-19
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Migrant labour without migration
Robots have been hailed as the "unsung heroes" of the Covid-19 pandemic, allowing potentially risky work to be carried out remotely. But the reality of robotics is more complicated than its boosters make out; it has allowed work to be offshored, often at vastly reduced pay and poor conditions. Here, Phil Jones looks at the new world of remote working.
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66 Days
It took just 66 days to get from the first shelter-in-place order to the first riot. Joshua Clover writes on the current protests and riots that have sprung up across the United States in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and their context at a time of economic and social crisis.
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Politics Theory Other #88: A triple shock in the global south
Adam Hanieh on the challenges Covid-19 and the debt crisis pose to countries in the global south, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
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Living as a Virus in Modi's India
From New Delhi, Shigraf Zahbi reports on how "the virus" became "the Muslim virus" in less than a week.
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Teaching Marx in a Pandemic
Barnaby Raine writes to mark the launch of a new class on Marx and his writing, as part of The Brooklyn Institute summer season
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A Question of Belonging: Imagining Mutual Aid
Freya Marshall Payne looks at how communities have been imagined under COVID-19 and what the future of Mutual Aid might be after the virus.
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There is Always Outside
Jessie Kindig's introduction to There Is No Outside: Covid-19 Dispatches, an urgent new ebook collection of essays on the global pandemic, from n+1 and Verso Books.
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The Gilet Noirs navigate the lockdown
Luke Butterly charts the plight of undocumented migrants in France, the Gilet Noirs, during the COVID-19 crisis
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The Only Way We Win: The Progressive International
The Progressive International demands that this crisis should be the starting point of a new socialist internationalism. By Nihal El Aasar
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Pandemic: The spread of economic insecurity - and what we can do about it
The current crisis has made the dangers of austerity painfully clear. Harry Quilter-Pinner argues for a new, popular consensus on the welfare state based on equality and justice.
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Politics Theory Other #86: After Geoengineering
Holly Buck on why we may have little choice but to undertake geoengineering to avert the worst of the climate crisis, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
