Suggested reading

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Community health workers

• Mondli Hlatshwayo, The new struggles of precarious workers in South Africa: nascent organisational responses of community health workers

• Khanya Forum, In the eye of the storm

• People's Health Movement, Coronavirus – Statements and responses from PHM worldwide

• Dr Louis Reynolds, The Coronavirus crisis and the struggle for health

 

COVID-19

• Patrick Bond, Covid-19 Attacks the Down-and-Out in Ultra-Unequal South Africa

• Henry A. Giroux, The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism

• Max Haiven, No return to normal: for a post-pandemic liberation

• David Harvey, Anti-capitalist Politics in the Time of Covid-19

• Interface Journal, Social movements in and beyond the COVID-19 crisis: sharing stories of struggles

• Naomi Klein, Coronavirus Capitalism — and How to Beat It

• Bruno Latour, Is this is a Dress Rehearsal? Sanitary crisis versus ecological mutation

• Oupa Lehulere, The President, the Finance Minister, and the Economists
  _, Worshipping the markets while South Africa burns
  _, Government protects private hospital profits as COVID-19 rages

• Dale McKinley, Covid-19 and Capitalism: ‘Pandemics… have their roots in environmental change and ecosystem disturbances’

• Monthly Review, COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital

• Arundhati Roy, ‘The pandemic is a portal’

• Von Holdt and Essop, Working with communities and movements to fight the pandemic

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Economic interventions

• Hannah Dawson and Elizaveta Fouksman, Why South Africa needs to ensure income security beyond the pandemic

• Katlego Ramantsima, Dancing on the spot: Covid-19 in the low-income economy

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Food Justice

South Africa

• Jane Battersby, South Africa’s lockdown regulations and the reinforcement of anti‑informality bias

• Stephen Greenberg, SA must move towards a democratised and recalibrated food system

 

Global

• Walden Bello, ‘Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste’: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Opportunity for Food Sovereignty [1.1 MB pdf]

• Tania Eulalia Martinez Cruz, Resisting in the mountains in Mexico: using territory and self-determination to resist COVID-19

• GRAIN, New research suggests industrial livestock, not wet markets, might be origin of Covid-19

• Peoples Dispatch, Argentine Social Movements Propose a Food Sovereignty Plan

• Noam Sandweiss-Back, Beyond Mutual Aid: Toward the Poor Organizing the Poor

• Rebeca Tarlau, Activist farmers in Brazil feed the hungry

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State Imperialism

• Ching Kwan Lee, Hong Kong is the front line of a new cold war. If it burns, the world gets burned too

 

Zapatismo

• Massimo de Angelis, "Zapatismo" and Globalisation as Social Relations

• Declarations of the Lacandon Jungle
  (1994 - 2005)

• Harkbath and Mooers, The Zapatista Revolution Is Not Over

• John Holloway, Zapatismo
  _, Zapatismo and the Social Sciences
  _, The concept of power and the Zapatistas
  _, The Two Temporalities of Counter-Power and Anti-Power

• Gary Kinsman, The Politics of Listening, Asking Questions, and of Opening Cracks in the Fabric of Capitalism: Preliminary Reflections on the Zapatista “Other Campaign”

• Hilary Klein, A Spark of Hope: The Ongoing Lessons of the Zapatista Revolution 25 Years On​

• Notes from Nowhere Collective,  Walking: We Ask Questions