Tag: COVID-19
The Political Ecology of Pandemics
Michael Friedman on the political ecology of emerging diseases and pandemics.
Competing with Nature: COVID-19 as a Capitalist Virus
Rob Wallace speaks about the global capitalist roots of the current pandemic, the likelihood of future pandemics, and the types of organized resistance necessary to prevent them.
The Exception as the Rule
Ongoing organizing in the face of COVID-19 reveals how class struggles in Toronto are inseparable from fights waged on feminist, anti-racist, and other fronts, all in the name of reclaiming life over profits.
Yih and Kulldorff’s “Radical” Covid Strategy
An epidemiologist responds to two Harvard researchers who called for socialists to oppose lockdowns in the name of workers’ lives. But their argument, Michael Friedman insists, puts us all at risk – above all, workers.
Right-Wing Suicide in the U.S. Today
How should we understand the irrationalism of American rightists today? What to make of their seeming enthusiasm for the death drive?
Global Fever
Gareth Dale reviews Andreas Malm’s forthcoming book on responses to the coronavirus and climate change. “Malm describes his project as Leninist—but which of the umpteen Lenins is his?”
Our Children Are in Crisis
A preschool teacher in Vermont writes about the calamity of going back to work in the fall.
A Semester to Die For
In our latest dispatch, an English professor argues that plowing ahead with university reopening in the fall is akin to the Thatcherite mantra, “There is no alternative.”