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Alain Badiou on the COVID-19 pandemic

When we get back to thinking about climate change, what lessons can we draw from the coronavirus crash? Is suppressing economic activity (“degrowth”) the way to reduce carbon emissions? Chris Saltmarsh of Labour for a Green New Deal argues for a different approach

The proposals currently being tabled for how to deal with the coronavirus outbreak across Britain involve would each involve a fundamental transformation in the British economy and state. How strange it would be to see one of the most brazenly privileged, right-wing prime-ministers of modern times preside over a programme as transformative as that of the post-war Labour government. But, as Phil Jones argues, we cannot trust the Tories to push through the necessary, radical steps – instead we need a government of national unity.

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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.

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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Franco 'Bifo' Berardi charts the spiralling collapse of the social order under the effects of COVID-19.

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.

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.

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.