Capital’s Viral Crown
Sara Colantuono and Arlen Austin interviews Silvia Federici on the Coronavirus pandemic and capitalist development.
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Posts tagged: covid-19
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Ghana in COVID-19 Pandemic – one year on
Agnes Khoo-Dzisi charts the political, social and economic consequences of COVID crisis in Ghana, and proposes a unified response from the Global South
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Tilting at windmills: the catastrophe of vaccine nationalism
As the COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out across the richest countries, Arianne Shahvisi warns against the rise of 'vaccine nationalism' that polices who does and does not get the jabs. And why this is likely to consolidate existing global inequalities.
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'… let’s hope that things kick off again quickly'. An Interview with Andreas Malm
On the publication of his new book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Andreas Malm reaffirms the call for climate action
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The Covid Crisis and the Crisis of British Democracy
The crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has revealed major flaws in the nature of the British state – and the left's thinking on state power as well. In this article, Christine Berry argues that what is required is a new, democratic conception of state power as a way out of the crisis.
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Notes on Covid: Then and Now
Nearly five months since her own experience of covid-19 related pneumonia and her subsequent hospitalisation, Angela McRobbie looks at the British response to the pandemic, and assesses the chances for an internationalist response to the crisis.
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A Matter of Life and Death: What war and the pandemic have in common
Patrick Cockburn examines the threads between the pandemic and the media's coverage of age of endless war.
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The Two Politics: 2020 So Far
The year 2020 has provided a practically laboratorial clarity. For political theory, or really political practice, it has been something like a natural experiment measuring two politics against the world and against each other. How to name these two politics, if not the election and the riot?
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Politics, Theory, Other Podcast #91: Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
Andreas Malm on his new book, 'Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century' with Alex Doherty.
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‘Only democracy can allow us to accept the lack of control over our history’
Jean-Luc Nancy and Jean-François Bouthors on the revolutionary potential of the pandemic
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Debt and the Violence of Property
Luci Cavallero and Verónica Gago on on the compounding crises of personal debt, a pandemic recession, and patriarchal power
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Defund the Seattle Police Department!
These activist demands to defund the Seattle Police Department, prepared by COVID-19 Mutual Aid Seattle, emerged out of the city-wide movement that made headlines last week when the SPD abandoned a police precinct in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood and activists reclaimed the space, naming it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
