Against global capitalism. For freedom.
Phil Shannon casts a critical eye on the interplay between the engines of the COVID crisis: Illness, capital, class oppression and state overreach. In doing so, he raises questions that those on the left would do well to consider.
A discussion of the interplay between war, lockdowns, the financial system and capitalism’s need for a constant state of crisis.
Rusere Shoniwa takes us to the root cause of Covid ideological totalism and the next crisis: the monster of unconstrained Global Capitalism.
Rusere Shoniwa continues his application of Robert Lifton’s study of Maoist brainwashing to the manipulation of science and language in the Covid era.
Rusere Shoniwa discusses the Government’s deployment of psychological warfare techniques to induce compliance with Covid containment policies.
A penetrating look at the disturbing developments in New Zealand, where the liberal left cheers on developments which pose a serious danger to democracy.
The “Covid left” has ended up sounding like rightwing reactionaries, writes Phil Shannon, and the left needs to drop its suspicion of the word “freedom”.
As we endure a Christmas panto of Omicron fear porn, the SAGE equivalent in South Africa – Omicron’s original so-called epicentre – is recommending the end of all contract tracing and self-isolation.
We reflect on the truths exposed by 2021, including the true meaning of popular resistance, and look towards our big task for 2022: advancing the cause of the anti-medical-apartheid Left.
A theory of conformity and Covid jabs from Amy Willows: the ‘liveliness’ of the unvaccinated provokes envy in the ‘unobtrusives’ who get jabbed not as a personal choice but to do the ‘right thing’.