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Since  January, when the Chinese government adopted extreme confinement measures in Wuhan,  the pandemic sparked the worldwide spread of a questionable war semantics.  It also provided states, in particular existing authoritarian regimes, new justifications for exercising their monopoly on violence, declaring arbitrary measures, and conducting new forms of political coercion. In the Philippines, Duterte authorized […]

Logistics Firms Have Used the Pandemic to Boost Profits and Make Workers More Precarious – Jacobin The real cost of Amazon – Vox Explosive resignation at Amazon highlights the very worst of modern-day capitalism – The Canary Coronavirus pandemic leaves gig economy workers exposed – Politico Covid-19: who will protect gig workers, if not platforms? […]

Six ways capitalism spreads the crisis – Corporate Watch Precarity in Times of Pandemic:Covid-19 and the crisis in India’s informal labor markets – Bot Populi India’s coronavirus pandemic shines a light on the curse of caste – The Conversation Pandemic Meets Precarity: The Case of Platform Delivery Work in Latin America – Bot Populi When […]

World Indigenous groups in Canada, Australia, Brazil brace for coronavirus – Washington Post US Why has Navajo Nation been hit so hard by the coronavirus? – Al Jazeera Indian Country, where residents suffer disproportionately from disease, is bracing for coronavirus – Washington Post Latin America Ecuador Ecuador: Indigenous community use tradition to keep COVID-19 out […]

The need for universal basic income – UNDP Sailing through a perfect storm of COVID-19 with universal basic income for Indonesia – The Conversation Could Covid-19 be the push that Europe needs for unconditional basic income? – The Conversation Universal basic income is the answer to the inequalities exposed by COVID-19 – World Economic Forum […]

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Will coronavirus change our attitudes to death? Quite the opposite’ – The Guardian Yuval Noah Harari on COVID-19: ‘The biggest danger is not the virus itself’ – The Guardian How overly optimistic modeling distorted Trump team’s coronavirus response – Politico Coronavirus: five reasons to feel optimistic – The Conversation Rand Paul urges […]

What’s Really Behind the Gender Gap in Covid-19 Deaths? – New York Times India’s coronavirus pandemic shines a light on the curse of caste – The Conversation India and the US Can No Longer Afford to Look Away From Systemic Injustice – The Wire US: To understand who’s dying of Covid-19, look to social factors […]

EUROPE Crisis and Resistance at the Periphery: Bosnian responses to COVID -19 –  Critical Legal Thinking Coronavirus: Hungary bid to end emergency powers ‘an optical illusion’, say human rights NGOs – Euronews Orban´s Power Strategy: “Surrender to win” – Balkan Insight Coronavirus: Hungary votes to end Viktor Orban emergency powers – BBC Hungary’s “de facto […]

Sex workers must not be left behind in the response to COVID-19 – Unaids ‘Sex workers say they’re at risk, have been left out of Canada’s COVID-19 response – The Global and Mail Japan is offering sex workers financial aid. But they say it’s not enough to survive the coronavirus pandemic – CNN Coronavirus: why […]