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Uncertain future: workers in the pandemic

Posted on 21st December 2021 by Richard Donnelly

Production is the essential condition for any functioning human society, and collective human labour the foundation of production.1 These basic facts are typically buried under an overgrowth of ideology but the Covid-19 pandemic has helped to strip this back, placing… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised British working class, coronavirus, Economics, global working class

Capitalism, coronavirus and mental distress

Posted on 7th October 2020 by Richard Donnelly

When faced with great social and political crises, our usual response as socialists is to look for historical parallels and consider what lessons can be drawn from them.1 The Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged the globe since early 2020 poses… Continue Reading →

Article coronavirus, Mental health

Science, capitalism
and Covid-19

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A spectre is haunting the world—the spectre of pandemic.1 Invisible to the eye, and indeed even to all but the most powerful electron microscopes, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has nonetheless created panic around the globe. It has brought the world economic… Continue Reading →

Article coronavirus, Science

Pandemic economics

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Around 2.7 billion workers worldwide have been affected by full or partial lockdown measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic—around 81 percent of the world’s 3.3 billion workforce. The world economy has seen nothing like this. Nearly all economic forecasts for… Continue Reading →

Article coronavirus, Long depression, political economy, The Economic Crisis

Covid-19: the battle in the workplace

Posted on 8th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A pandemic is first of all a public health crisis. But when containing the infection requires a dramatic reduction in social contact, it rapidly becomes a workplace issue. Under normal circumstances, each day millions of people are concentrated in often… Continue Reading →

Article British working class, coronavirus, Health, Strikes

A triple crisis

Posted on 6th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the emergency brake. Walter Benjamin, 1940, Notes for “On… Continue Reading →

Analysis coronavirus, Ecology, Health, Labour Party, The Economic Crisis, The United States, Tories

Socialism in a time of pandemics

Posted on 22nd March 2020 by Richard Donnelly

It is tempting to see pandemics as unpredictable, cataclysmic incursions of nature into human society.1 Yet the outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) is anything but a “natural” phenomenon. Epidemics and pandemics happen in a social, political and economic context,… Continue Reading →

Analysis Agriculture, coronavirus, Ecology, Economics, Health, health and social care, The Economic Crisis
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