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COVID-19 in Ireland: One island, two approaches

Nowhere has shown the limitations of Britain's coronavirus response as starkly than on the island of Ireland. Luke Butterly reports on one island, two responses.
Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections from between Elections

Lola Seaton writes about the highs and lows of the Corbyn moment. What should the Millennial left be doing - and thinking - now?
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Bifo - Diary of the psycho-deflation

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi charts the spiralling collapse of the social order under the effects of COVID-19.
Politics of struggles in the time of pandemic

The coronavirus pandemic has shown the fragility of our current economic and political order. In the face of this, governments across the world have pushed a form of "Malthusianism", not least Boris Johnson's Conservatives. But, as Sandro Mezzadra argues, it could also offer new spaces for solidarity.
Paranoia and the coronavirus: how Eve Sedgwick's affect theory persists through quarantine and self-isolation

The spread of coronavirus, and the global political response to it, is provoking panic and paranoia across the world. But what tools do we have to turn paranoia into action, and how can we forge new relations out of the crisis? In this essay, Josh Gabert-Doyon turns to Eve Sedgwick's concepts of paranoid and reparative reading to make sense of the global reaction to the virus.
From New York to Salt Lake City, There’s No Such Thing as a Nice Prison

A Discussion between Brinley Froelich, Zhandarka Kurti, and Jarrod Shanahan on how criminal justice initiatives are furnishing the ideology behind jail and prison expansion in the America, and anti-prison organising across the country.
Feminism: What's in a Name?

They have all the packaging, but are they feminisms? Amelia Horgan browses the shelves of the centrist marketplace in ideas.
On the Media of Counterinsurgency and the Targeting of Decolonize this Place

Last month, a coordinated campaign by the right-wing media and the NYPD was launched against Decolonize This Place, attempting to demonize and discredit recent actions around the MTA by reducing them to the figurehead of a "violent" Palestinian mastermind.
Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era

Leading voices on the British Left examine where we go from here.
The defeat of youth: the generational dimensions of the 2019 general election

How can the left forge solidarities across a politics fractured by class, by region and – increasingly – by generation, asks Keir Milburn.