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Coronavirus has irrevocably changed the world - and laid bare the deep structural issues that rot our economy and society. This collection covers the coronavirus contagion, and provides insight into what it reveals about capitalism's economic order.

Mayor Bowser's botched public safety policy

Alex Mell-Taylor

It's simple to wave your hand and say you will hire an unrealistic number of police officers. But reality is more complicated than that.

No home in this world anymore: on Maryland's eviction crisis

Stephen Melkisethian

An inside (the courtroom) look at how our legal system can sidestep eviction moratoriums in Montgomery County.

DC's Community Response to COVID-19: A Lesson in Solidarity

Community groups, political organizations, and mutual aid networks rallied to confront the District government's bumbling vaccine rollout.

No Better Time Than Now for Medicare for All

Medicare for All is not a fix-all solution. But it is the foundation from which an equitable and just health care system can be built.

500,000: COVID-19 by the numbers

Trump is gone, but the pandemic nightmare his administration failed to acknowledge remains.

A World Which Could Be Free

The anti-capitalist theories provided by the late-philosopher Mark Fisher can help us make sense of the tragedies inflicted by the coronavirus - and build a new class politics in its wake.

DMV socialists demand relief for the working class

DMV socialists took to the streets of Washington in order to highlight the dire need for bold federal action to address the ongoing suffering of the working-class.

300,000: COVID-19 by the numbers

In mid-December the United States passed a grim milestone: 300,000 lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. How do we even begin to process how many have died?

District Educators Cannot Be Pitted Against Families and Other Workers

As the Washington Teachers Union battles against reopening plans set forth by Mayor Bowser, the need for working-class solidarity is more apparent than ever.

Workers and work, before and after the pandemic

Observations on how the pandemic changed the relationship between labor and capital, today and perhaps into the future.

The Before Times Are Over. What Next?

Adapting to life in the time of permanent biohazard is going to require permanent lifestyle and behavior changes, and we really don’t know which changes will be more or less pleasant and which ones not.

Workers Blast Hogan for Disastrous Reponse to MD Unemployment Crisis

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has failed to meet the challenge of the COVID-19 virus in a state battered by skyrocketing unemployment.

A Soft Landing for the System Formerly Known as Capitalism

Automation provides the left an opportunity to mobilize socialism in the post-pandemic era.

On Capitalism, Socialism and Coronavirus

The COVID-19 epidemic has found many governments and business leaders unprepared to meet the emergency. For socialists who take the capitalist economic system seriously, however, COVID-19 shouldn’t be a surprise.

Reject the Return

It's tempting to believe that the dangers and calamity imposed by COVID-19 are unique. But COVID is only capable of mass proliferation because it feeds on the long-neglected externalities produced by our current arrangement of work and life.

Fear at Work

As the coronavirus emergency overtook Maryland, day by day and with new restrictions piling up, thousands have watched their jobs evaporate under their feet.

The Tyrant Virus: Reconceiving the Right to Assembly

To what extent will the next future be a gradual reconstruction of the capitalist material structures of the past, and how much a palimpsest, erased and rewritten in a different idiom?