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Eyal Weizman on Michael Sorkin (1948-2020) 

Judith Butler discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, and its escalating political and social effects in America.

A brief history of UK sex worker activism

The virus communizes us because we have to face it together, even if by isolating ourselves. It is a chance to really experience our community, argues Jean Luc Nancy

What sort of president does Zoe Leonard want? Plus Emi Koyama, 'the shameless voice of trans rights' and The Transfeminist Manifesto.

Corbyn may be out, Sanders may be down, but Pablo Iglesias and Unidas Podemos have been in power in Madrid since the start of the year. Cristina Flesher Fominaya assesses their progress 

Mike Davis pays tribute to architect and critic Michael Sorkin, who has died aged 71 of complications caused by Covid-19.

Adam Hanieh on the COVID-19 pandemic

An excerpt from What Comes Up: The Right and Wrongs to the City.

An unexpected beneficiary of the COVID-19 pandemic may well be the environment, with the global lockdown leading to falling air pollution levels and rapidly clearing rivers and seas. From this, many have concluded that the virus may be "nature's revenge" on humans – that "we are the virus". Here, Jennifer Johnson analyses the danger of taking lessons on climate change from the huge human toll of the coronavirus.

The past few weeks have seen images spreading around the internet of empty streets and deserted cities. But what do these images tell us about the present moment, and what does their cultural value suggest about our relationship to the current crisis?

In response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, mutual aid groups have sprung up across Britain to help those most vulnerable. Adam Quarshie looks at the actions of these solidarity networks, and asks what we can learn from the history of mutual aid.