The novel coronavirus outbreak is a new global crisis. Yet the current crisis is not only the result of a new pathogen circulating around the world. It is also a crisis of care. Here the Care Collective (Andreas Chatzidakis, Jamie Hakim, Jo Littler, Catherine Rottenberg, Lynne Segal) outline the contours of the crisis of care, and how we can think care work different.
On Wednesday 18th March, Angela McRobbie was admitted to hospital with what turned out to be COVID-19. Here she discusses her experiences of the virus, and pays tribute to those low paid workers who are at the forefront of efforts to tackle the pandemic.
Anticapitalist and anarchofeminist manifestos from Emma Goldman and subRosa collective.
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting every aspect of life across the world. But none are hit as hard, and with such a weak safety net, as those in the creative industries. Melissa Chemam discusses the impact of the crisis on Britain's artists, writers and musicians, and what the public response must be.
Many on the left have argued that the current crisis precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to the conditions for a new socialism to emerge from the ashes. But, as Christine Berry argues, crises aren't only opportunities for the left, and the conditions that are emerging could well play into the hands of a renewed far-right.
Fuel your rage with feminist manifestos for the revolution!
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's sharp critique of the loss of indigenous people to the forces of whiteness and colonization.
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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