Why the left now looks more like the hard right
A penetrating look at the disturbing developments in New Zealand, where the liberal left cheers on developments which pose a serious danger to democracy.
Left, Right, Left, Right, Left …
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”.
A Tale of Two Omicrons…
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.
2021 in review: power’s contempt for the people, the rise of the resistance & the resurgence of the Left
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.
Inside the Minds of Resistance and Compliance
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’.
Open Letter to Those Not Yet Opposed to Vaccine Passports, Part 3: ‘Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities’ (Voltaire)
Zimbardo said: “The line between good and evil is permeable. Any of us can move across it”. We are hurtling down a road to hell and it’s signposted ‘Vaccine Passports’, writes Rusere Shoniwa.
Open Letter to Those Not Yet Opposed to Vaccine Passports, Part 2: The dominoes of delusion
Part 1 warned that the Covid crisis has induced a mass delusional psychosis which lays the path totalitarianism. Here Rusere exposes the delusion using an age-old expedient – being able to smell a rat.
Open Letter to Those Not Yet Opposed to Vaccine Passports, Part 1: Totalitarianism here we come!
If you’re trying to change opinions, you ought really to address those with whom you disagree. So, this is an open letter to those who are either indifferent to or in support of vaccine passports.
Tyranny by Health Emergency, or the Dystopian Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism
We are in the midst of a global geo-financial and geo-political mutation, writes Fabio Vighi, one of those watershed moments that very rarely occur during one’s lifetime.
Sick chic
A public health emergency is always a political emergency. The citizen becomes a biomedical object with a duty to be well – and the authority of diagnosis rests with the state, not a personal doctor.