Posts Tagged: coronavirus
What if the European common debt were an opportunity for workers to seize?
Opinion22.06.2020
The European Union is a political space where the financial elites are winning by strangling the workers and populations of Europe through austerity.
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Julian Assange just called. To talk about the pandemic’s effect on capitalism & politics!
13.06.2020
Julian Assange calls from Belmarsh Prison and to talk to Yanis Varoufakis: “I want a perspective on world developments out there.”
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A Chronicle of a Lost Decade Foretold
3.06.2020
The pandemic stripped away the veneer of indifference to reveal the political reality: some people do have the power to tell the rest of us what ...
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Failure to deal with Dominic Cummings is a failure of British democracy
27.05.2020
The case of Cummings and the shameless defence of him by all prominent ministers, has eroded much of the public faith in the PM and his government.
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Manchester’s Quarantined Music Scene: The Hazards of Precarious Employment
15.05.2020
Social distancing measures are necessary but will leave workers in the entertainment industry out of work for the foreseeable future.
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Greek Tragedy and the first days of COVID-19 in Sicily
13.05.2020
It is our inability to deal with the virus that is killing us. In quarantine, we must excavate faded ideals and re-establish what is truly important.
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Applause as a form of social distancing
12.05.2020
Far from being a gesture of solidarity with workers, the act of applauding is in reality a form of social distancing from them.
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COVID-19 Has Created a Boom Economy for Big Data
8.05.2020
COVID-19 may be wreaking havoc on businesses big and small, but there are winners in the pandemic economy. Namely, big data companies.
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Manchester’s quarantined music scene is a microcosm of inequality
4.05.2020
Manchester's precarious musicians, engineers and venue workers need a life line, not just crumbs from the table.
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