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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.

They have all the packaging, but are they feminisms? Amelia Horgan browses the shelves of the centrist marketplace in ideas.

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.

Leading voices on the British Left examine where we go from here.

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

Current left proposals for public transport in the UK are too narrow, focused on either commuting or long-distance travel. It’s time for us to develop new and radical solutions for transport to rebuild Britain’s social fabric, based on free public transport at all levels and a radical reduction in car usage.

On February 11, a mass deportation flight to Jamaica departed from Doncaster Airport, UK, carrying seventeen people. At the same time the government announced an emergency law to imprison people convicted of “terror offences” for longer, and the Metropolitan police deployed facial recognition technology on the streets of London. In this article, Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha analyse the authoritarian context of the new series of charter flights for so-called ‘foreign criminals’, and how to resist it.

Helen Charman interviews UK Women's Strike organiser Camille Barbagallo on the reasons behind the 2020 strike.