Tag: COVID-19
Care Work
Middle School Can’t Be Digitized
A middle school teacher explains why we can’t just throw all of our lessons online in the face of COVID-19 and pretend that education is continuing as usual.
Isaac Kreisman
June 25, 2020
Care Work
Sympathy Won’t Win Us Better Conditions
A care worker writes about the struggle for PPE, wages, and job security in the UK.
Alison Treacher
June 6, 2020
Capitalism
Life vs. Capital
How does the pandemic force us to rethink the relations among capital, state power, and human life?
Nicholas De Genova
June 1, 2020
Anti-capitalism
15 Notes on 60 Days of Pandemic and Economic Depression in Brazil
A Brazilian historian and PSOL militant puts forward fifteen theses on the limits and opportunities in a conjuncture marked by multiple nested crises in his country
Valério Arcary
June 1, 2020
Anti-capitalism
Infectious Optimism
Dan Boscov-Ellen writes about the limits of reform to stave off climate change, and proposes radical alternatives.
Dan Boscov-Ellen
May 27, 2020
Capitalism
Salt in the Wound
What sorts of crises are emerging from Covid-19, and how should we understand them in relation to prior crises?
Juan Grigera
May 27, 2020