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There is an ever-growing stream of media commentary on the Grenfell fire, increasing daily as the public enquiry unfolds. There are some elements in the media with the goal of obscuring or excusing the plain facts as part of a pre-emptive defence manoeuvre to protect those most implicated in what caused the fire and the 72 deaths. That they feel the need to use such distortions to defend the Grenfell landlords and those who ordered and oversaw the Grenfell refurbishment that fitted the lethal cladding only increases the suggestion of a general doubt on all sides about their innocence.

Let's make a few things clear: Coronavirus is killing thousands of people in Italy because of inequality, business, reckless disregard for workers' lives.

A perspective of a Filipino-American on the COVID-19 crisis.

Coronavirus has now become a pandemic that none of us wished for. And the response of the society in which we live only demonstrates the absurdity of its economic laws which cannot cope with sudden calamities and natural upheavals, including the climate and environmental disasters also looming on the horizon.

A pamphlet arguing for an anarchist alternative for the archipelago known as the Philippines.

Some thoughts on the lockdown and the COVID-19 crisis written by an anarchist in the Philippines.

An anarchist perspective on the COVID-19 quarantine and lock down in Metro Manila.

An anarchist statement on the current COVID-19 crisis written by an anarchist in the Philippines.

A pamphlet on the current COVID-19 pandemic, translated by an anarchist in the Philippines.

The Angry Workers of the World (AWW), a group based in West London which publishes the irregular workplace bulletin WorkersWildWest, has released a pamphlet collecting their articles on history, crisis, and revolution. We want a new society – and don’t we need it! seeks to explain in a straightforward manner how the current system emerged and how a new society can replace it.

Socialism, or communism, or whatever you want to call a society of the future, will not save us from occasional epidemics. It would however deal with them in an entirely different way.

The following review is a small depiction of what’s happening in the world, outside Italy (for the situation in Italy, see: leftcom.org).

Though we realise people’s minds may be elsewhere right now, we’re asking our supporters to help us raise the funds we need for a major site upgrade so that we can help promote radical working class politics.

Everyone is complaining about empty supermarket shelves. Lots of people are now asking themselves how they get filled in the first place.

Capitalism – the current social system based on private property, wage labour and production for profit – is at a turning point. Day by day it becomes clearer that the existing relations of production have become fetters preventing humanity from addressing the urgent problems facing the whole planet. Unable to resolve its own contradictions, capitalism is instead hurtling us towards barbarism.

CrimethInc's classic pamphlet on anarchism, To Change Everything translated into Bisaya/Cebuano.

Corona has taken over. Despite the fear and panic (or even denial) that has taken hold, one thing is for sure: the cracks of the system are emerging for all to see.

A translation of Alexander Berkman's “Reformer and Politician” from What is Communist Anarchism?

Introduction to our upcoming book. Our book tour is messed up by the virus - so please circulate online and order the book for your time of self-isolation: www.classpower.net

The line that divides this entire society into two social classes is today, in the time of coronavirus, clearer than ever.