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Notes that link to this note (AKA backlinks).
- Vaccinations and acquired immunity mean that there is no longer much risk of becoming severely unwell from Covid
- The Public Order Act already makes peaceful protest harder than in almost every other democracy
- Humans are eusocial animals
- Free software is a gift economy
- There is no such thing as knowledge
- The policing bill increases the risk of peaceful demonstrators being criminalised
- Decolonization is not a metaphor
- We need vaccine equity
- More Covid variants are inevitable
- Cutting the Covid isolation period to five days is foolhardy and dangerous
- Digital technologies are an important part of movement infrastructure
- Local communities are the primary organisms within human society
- Self-governance is a mode of resistance
- We should have public ownership of energy
- Covid antiviral drugs significantly reduce the chances of hospitalisation and death
- The built environment reinforces cultural messages
- We should have public ownership of water
- Capitalism is the cause of the climate crisis
- Boris Johnson is a liar
- There is a latent fascist waiting to emerge in all humans
- Food is a human right, not a commodity
- Democracies are inherently unstable and susceptible to ruin by aggressive, skilled demagogues
- Cuba is the most sustainably developed country in the world
- The commons enables people to foster togetherness without compulsion
- Planning to get Omicron in order to gain some immunity or get it over with is a terrible idea
- The menace of Trumpism is darker now than it ever was before
- Reality is identical with divinity
- New technologies are more likely to amplify the inequalities and the injustices of a society than to undo them
- Britain is better off without Bristol's monument to Colston
- Governance is the extension of whiteness on a global scale
- The commons enables people to assert sovereignty without nationalism
- Energy price freezes are a direct result of campaigning like Don't Pay UK
- Democracy functions best at the level of the city
- We do not have vaccine equity
- 1.3 million people, or 2% of the population, are estimated to be living with long Covid
- Net zero is part of a global imperialist climate policy
- Commoning represents a profound challenge to capitalism
- Widespread racial inequality is embedded in healthcare in England
- There will be a fresh wave of Omicron cases in the early summer
- Agroecology is an example of systems thinking
- Benefits need to increase
- The policing bill is an embrace of a new authoritarianism
- Covid-19 will not just disappear
- Cuba is world-leading in agroecology
- Structurally decentralized technologies do not guarantee decentralized power
- Britain's early handling of the coronavirus pandemic was one of the worst public health failures in UK history
- The commons enables people to enjoy freedom without repressing others
- Cuba is a good model of a green society
- Spare parts for repair should be easily accessible
- Social revolution is necessary in order to bring about structural changes to society
- Amazon exploits workers and is anti-union
- Social change has never come without violence
- The government should invest in the NHS, not privatise it
- ICT is a fundamental part of modern society
- revolution is a necessary precondition for a transition from capitalism to socialism
- To be a 21st century socialist is to be an eco-socialist
- The policing bill is an attack on some of the most basic democratic rights of citizens
- The information necessary for repair should be easily accessible
- For-profit healthcare systems are a piece-of-shit
- Degrowth is an element within the broader struggle of ecosocialism
- Expanding national parks and protected areas will not be enough to halt the destruction of nature
- gift economies build community
- self-organising systems should be the terrain of the Left
- The next UK election will be decided in the north of England
- Britain's welfare system is "unfit for purpose" and in urgent need of reform
- Free software enacts 'from each according to their ability, to each according to their need'
- The policing bill is about state control
- Democracy is in retreat worldwide
- A commons is a politics of belonging
- Keir Starmer is a bit dull
- The policing bill will undermine the right to protest at a critical moment in the fight to avoid climate breakdown
- The French Revolution has historical significance to revolutionary socialism today
- All you need is links
- Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity
- Capitalism is a complex adaptive system
- State socialism is good for the environment
- Solarpunk is about technologies that de-abstract human relationships with the material world
- Modern information technology is one of the main conditions for socialist revolution
- The commons enables people to enact fairness without bureaucratic control
- Households across the UK will see rising prices and stalling wages in 2022
- Governing complex economies and societies by consent is hard
- Markets for goods and services are compatible with socialism
- Acknowledging historic injustices is part of building a more equal society today
- Britain's history contains astonishing levels of greed and cruelty