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Tag: COVID-19
Pamphlet Extract: Workers’ struggles in the lockdown
The Angry Workers of the World has launched a new pamphlet today taking a concerted look at the current crisis and asking: What can working class p…
Incompetence, Cronyism, Repression: One Year On, What is the Covid State?
Last year, I wrote in this blog that the UK government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis was one of ‘callous incompetence’.[1] In hi…
Reasonability is not a reproduction of universal laws declared from above: A conversation with Kilian Jörg
The end of February marks a year since the WHO warned the national governments, saying that COVID-19 is “literally knocking at the door” and th…
Hidden exposures: coercion and COVID-19 in the office
George, 24, is having to go to work at a small London office during the pandemic, despite being able work from home.
Notes from the US
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the las…
True Covid death toll passes 117,000
The B.1.1.7 aka 501Y.V1 Kent variant of SARS-CoV-2 has 23 mutations and is at least 70% more transmissible, according to most scientific commentato…
The current variant of Thatcherism is more deadly than the original
In a liberal democracy, it’s hard to imagine a more dangerous prospect than neoliberals running a country during a global pandemic.
A response to fake news
We can picture the relationship between freedom of speech and democracy as a beautiful love story.
Precarious workers demand campus shutdown and furlough with COVID-19 declared ‘Major Incident’ in London
With Covid-19 declared a ‘major incident’ in London, precarious workers are still being compelled to provide cleaning and security services in …
Cops shut down Westminster protest for Mohamud Hassan
Yesterday evening officers from the Met’s infamous Territorial Support Group shut down a protest called in memory of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan,…
Notes from the US
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the las…
Deliveroo and Uber riders in Sheffield strike for a living wage and due process
Members of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) Couriers & Logistics Branch in Sheffield are going on strike today against …
Spain: CNT takes on farm exploitation in Andalusia
Covid has presented particular problems for seasonal farm workers this year, and CNT Adra is planning to fight back.
Between the Covid spikes, the dark conservatism of Boris Johnson develops
Between the first two spikes of the Covid 19 pandemic, Boris Johnson’s true colours have started to appear.
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No consent to confinement
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Abolish AI – before it abolishes us
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Israeli academia “under command”
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Revolt in Albania: Besa and Flamingos
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