Contagion, Capitalism, and Resistance #RadicalMay

A Radical Guide  has teamed up with PM Press, Between the Lines, Melville House, and Verso Books to bring you this #RADICALMAY live event.   Contagion, Capitalism, and Resistance is a live conversation with Timothy Faust, L.A. Kauffman, Gary Kinsman, Peter Linebaugh, and OmiSoore Dryden.   Contagion, Capitalism, and Resistance While many have pointed to the similarities between the 1918 flu and the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many examples of past health crises that radicals might reflect on when trying to make sense of the current crisis. Most recently, the activist response to the HIV-AIDS crisis offers lessons for how activists might respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. When HIV-AIDS was used as way to divide people—by sexuality, race, gender, class, drug use, etc.—activists learned not to rely on a “public heath”  system that protected only some of the public and deemed others expendable. Instead, they organized collective responses, including direct action and mutual aid projects, to protect communities from both the disease and the state response to the disease. What can we learn from past activist responses to health crises that will help us protect vulnerable communities and continue building resistance movements during COVID-19?

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