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| Des Derwin |
Vaccine justice towards the global south, wage support for closed jobs, real ventilation in workplaces, an end to deforestation and desertification and intensive farming leading to zoonotic crossovers, provision of personal protective equipment, decent health services, etc., etc.
I’m bending the stick and splitting from what seems a widely held miscalculation on the international left about immediately responding to this massively lethal pandemic.
I support mandatory and legally enforceable public health measures and restrictions when necessary, just like I support workplace safety legislation.
No more dithering about personal freedoms, human rights, state powers, bodily integrity, rights to gather, and discrimination against spreaders of disease.
The logic of this super libertarianism is that we oppose for example the requirement for face coverings on public transport. Even though bus unions have asked for reductions in passenger numbers and bus workers enforce mask wearing?
Of course the state and the police might enforce new powers discriminately. They always do. It is up to us to expose and oppose that.
Continue reading @ Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières.
I’m bending the stick and splitting from what seems a widely held miscalculation on the international left about immediately responding to this massively lethal pandemic.
I support mandatory and legally enforceable public health measures and restrictions when necessary, just like I support workplace safety legislation.
No more dithering about personal freedoms, human rights, state powers, bodily integrity, rights to gather, and discrimination against spreaders of disease.
The logic of this super libertarianism is that we oppose for example the requirement for face coverings on public transport. Even though bus unions have asked for reductions in passenger numbers and bus workers enforce mask wearing?
Of course the state and the police might enforce new powers discriminately. They always do. It is up to us to expose and oppose that.
Continue reading @ Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières.
Matt Treacy Comments
ReplyDeleteThe working class needs to smash Covid.
Trotsky would have killed anyone who didn't get vaccinated or wore a mask stone dead so he would. And not a word about it.
And then gone bear hunting the next morning at someone else's dacha he'd stolen and then had a good dinner with lashings of someone else's gargle on behalf of the toiling masses, and then smashed small pox and capitalism and given the anarchist wreckers a running kick in the bollix..
No better man.