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Anarchipelago Kollective denounces National Democracy for their support for Duterte

Anarchipelago Kollective responds to National Democratic criticisms against them.

The coronavirus pandemic is battering the whole world. It has upset a social and economic order that appeared immutable. It has dramatically laid bare the reality of human relations in this society based on the exploitation of one human being by another in the name of profit.

We are happy to publish this correspondence with an Italian comrade translated by the IWG. It illustrates, once again, despite all the propaganda that “we are all in this together”, what the working class really represents for capital … lambs to the slaughter, especially in dramatic situations like the one we live in.

An introduction to Anarchy written in Filipino.

The lockdown quarantine in the Philippines is effectively martial law. This is an anarchist perspective on the COVID-19 crisis.

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.