COVID & Capitalism

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I quoted and/or consulted a number of articles for this episode, and the links are below for those who want check them out.

Davide Mastracci - The West Abandoned Its Citizens To COVID. China Saved Theirs

Shi Huli - "Everyone's happy to do their part": interview with a Xi'an resident in lockdown

Carlos Martinez - Zero Covid: China silences the critics

Friends of Socialist China - Chinese translation of 'Capitalism on a Ventilator' making waves in China

Scott Scheffer - While China successfully battles COVID, the US targets China and loses the battle against COVID

Joe Scholten - US media attacks China's COVID-19 policies for saving lives, while Americans die

 

Combating Sexual Violence Through Solidarity and Awareness

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Back in the USSR begins 2022 in conversation with Jensen Williams, the Public Educator of Guelph-Wellington Women In Crisis, a local feminist community-based organization providing support services to women experiencing abuse and sexual violence.  Specifically, we discuss how the ongoing pandemic has exacerbated the threat of gender-based violence for huge numbers of women across Canada and how capitalism and economic austerity have fueled this violence in many ways.  We explore how state violence regularly intersects with gender-based violence and the role that colonialism and racism plays in this.  But above all, we focus on how people can take action in their own communities and organizations to confront and defeat this violence so that the right to live in peace can be realized by all.

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