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Coronavirus and Chronopolitics
Coronavirus and Chronopolitics
Social distancing is an unquestionable necessity and act of solidarity, demanding our fullest commitment. Still, more than submission is needed now. Unemployment is spiraling rapidly, but the displaced—especially the young—can be enlisted through public spending and planning to take on the creation of emergency housing friendly to social distancing and quarantine; cleaning and sanitizing public facilities, most of all transit systems, groceries, pharmacies, and health care institutions; tending to the children of the frontline workers.
·nplusonemag.com·
Coronavirus and Chronopolitics
Coronavirus and the World-Economy: The Old is Dead, the New Can’t be Born
Coronavirus and the World-Economy: The Old is Dead, the New Can’t be Born
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a variety of morbid symptoms appear.” – Antonio Gramsci, Selections from…
·rpalat.wordpress.com·
Coronavirus and the World-Economy: The Old is Dead, the New Can’t be Born
One Question COVID-19 and Capitalism
One Question COVID-19 and Capitalism
In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, we ask 10 leading thinkers: How has the COVID-19 pandemic exposed inherent flaws in the capitalist system?
·stateofnatureblog.com·
One Question COVID-19 and Capitalism
How the Pandemic Will End
How the Pandemic Will End
The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.
·www.theatlantic.com·
How the Pandemic Will End
Politicising the coronavirus pandemic
Politicising the coronavirus pandemic
As the weeks turn into months and the policy response develops, the political nature of the pandemic will come into focus.
·theecologist.org·
Politicising the coronavirus pandemic
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Here is the latest reporting and analysis from Labor Notes on the COVID-19 pandemic. For organizing resources and more, click here. Want help organizing your workplace to respond to the pandemic? Email us at organize@labornotes.org.
·labornotes.org·
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Donald Trump vs God on Easter PPV
Donald Trump vs God on Easter PPV
Donald Trump wants to bring the economy back by Easter as a way to one-up God. Best Trump impression in the world.
·www.youtube.com·
Donald Trump vs God on Easter PPV
Lockdown!
Lockdown!
According to AFP estimates, some 1.7 billion people across the world are now living under some form of lockdown as a result of the coronavirus. That’s almost a quarter of the world population…
·thenextrecession.wordpress.com·
Lockdown!
Lessons From Wuhan
Lessons From Wuhan
If we don’t debate a democratic response to pandemics now, we risk ceding leadership to tyrants.
·www.thenation.com·
Lessons From Wuhan
What Americans Are Doing Now Is Beautiful
What Americans Are Doing Now Is Beautiful
The public’s response to the coronavirus will stand as a remarkable moment of national mobilization.
·www.theatlantic.com·
What Americans Are Doing Now Is Beautiful
MR Online | The COVID-19 debt deluge
MR Online | The COVID-19 debt deluge
How long the COVID-19 crisis will last, and what its immediate economic costs will be, is anyone’s guess. But even if the pandemic’s economic impact is contained, it may have already set the stage for…
·mronline.org·
MR Online | The COVID-19 debt deluge
Apocalypse Yesterday?
Apocalypse Yesterday?
The first in a series of posts over the coming weeks on the Coronavirus crisis and its multiple aspects, contradictions and possible futures. They will be collected here. This first is from Paul Da…
·thedisorderofthings.com·
Apocalypse Yesterday?