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Had some double-sided Labour flyers printed up to give out on the Hell Bus at Green Man festival next week

08.08.2025 09:47 — 👍 341    🔁 62    💬 17    📌 4

Front cover of new paperback edition of Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant published by Verso books.

Back cover of new paperback edition of Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, published by Verso. Text reads: A fiery tour de force by the hosts of the hit podcast Death Panel, a chronicle of life and death under capitalism and an argument for a new politics of solidarity aimed at severing the ties between capital and health "If you have ever gone to work sick because you need the job to treat the sickness, you know the basic argument of Health Communism to be true: health under capitalism is an impossibility." LUX MAGAZINE "Health Communism is itself a blueprint... for turning illness into a weapon." BAFFLER "A new way to find the universal in the particular, which is the kind of thinking tool we are in desperate need of at the moment." NEW YORK MAGAZINE "Surveying a century of sickness under an increasingly privatized system ... Adler-Bolton and Vierkant argue that we have to demand much more than Medicare for All in order to fix health care." NEW REPUBLIC

First page of new paperback edition of Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Praise for Health Communism “Health Communism is a remarkable book that connects the best abolitionist analysis with the strongest social reproduction diagnosis. The authors are at once ahead of their time and right on time. The profound practicality of their vision shows that where life is precious, life is precious." Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography “In Health Communism, [Adler-Bolton and Vierkant] show how members of the 'unproductive surplus class are cast as burdens even as health capitalism sets up entire cottage industries (e.g, for-profit nursing homes, prisons) to extract value from this very population." Charlie Markbreiter, Bookforum "This book changed the way I think about health, power, state capacity, extraction, social welfare, and resistance. It is an immensely useful tool for wrestling with the most urgent questions facing our movements in these terrifying times. Readable and flled with concise histories and clear examples to illustrate nuanced analysis, it will no doubt become required reading among those struggling against the death cult that is racial capitalism.” Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid "Here is deep wisdom to arm a struggle towards forms of human embodiment as yet undreamed of, inspiration for a million insurgencies of communist health." Sophie Lewis, author of Abolish the Family

Why is it so hard to imagine a world where care is free, universal & unconditional? Because the current system teaches us that care must be earned, health is a private matter, and dependence is failure. Health Communism traces the roots of that lie and how people have fought it.

19.07.2025 19:18 — 👍 104    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 0

Whenever marginalised people use nonviolent forms of protest to make the case for rights and basic levels of dignity, they are framed as angry, unreasonable, scary, etc. to discredit and distract. This method seems to convince liberals every time, no matter how aware they are of previous cases.

08.07.2025 10:01 — 👍 22    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

05.07.2025 15:17 — 👍 3954    🔁 1844    💬 170    📌 205

Jodie Hare on the Politics of Neurodiversity Following Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s widely publicized and false claims about autism, writer Jodie Hare joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to …

"Believing that autistic people deserve the right to a good life would require a lot of people to interrogate the way that they see the world, to interrogate their ideas of normality... and a lot of people don't want to do those things" - Author Jodie Hare interviewed by Prof @sugi.bsky.social

24.04.2025 19:41 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

jim sinclair also co-founded autism network international. xe wrote and delivered "don't mourn for us," which made a critical opening for the neurodiversity movement in the early nineties. autism is not an appendage, autism is not an impenetrable wall, autism is not death.

14.04.2025 19:25 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Labour seems set on imposing what I've called neoliberalism's privatisation of eugenic responsibility: instead of enforcing mass authoritarian eugenics, the world is made increasingly unlivable; welfare necessary for life is cut; ensuing deaths are then framed as caused by the individual's choices.

18.03.2025 08:45 — 👍 132    🔁 51    💬 3    📌 6

This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.

18.03.2025 06:36 — 👍 3545    🔁 1163    💬 130    📌 54

You don't get pip without a fight. Someone at the DWP once told me that my son might "recover from his cerebral palsy". You don't get LCWRA without a fight. These people aren't scroungers. WTF is wrong with this "Labour" government?

14.03.2025 22:22 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years “Kasibba”, who is non-verbal and had no family to speak for her, was one of hundreds wrongly detained.

Autistic woman wrongly locked up in mental health hospital for 45 years, in long term segregation for 25.
The NHS Trust 'said at no point had the care it delivered been brought into question and the service was rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission.' Hmm.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

04.03.2025 07:15 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 6

Basic, unsexy sh*t that’s been lost but would make a massive difference for us as patients:

- Day centres
- Volunteer work without DWP pressure
- Community rehabilitation teams
- Having the same careco for more than a year
- good supported accommodation

15.02.2025 10:24 — 👍 102    🔁 28    💬 6    📌 1

No matter how many times I’ve been through it, I am always flawed by grief’s ability to spread its roots across your life in the aftermath

16.01.2025 20:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ceasefire, then Palestinian liberation.

14.01.2025 16:06 — 👍 479    🔁 155    💬 9    📌 5

467 days. None of us will ever be the same. Nor should we be. Nothing will ever be the same. Nor should it be.

15.01.2025 18:08 — 👍 637    🔁 215    💬 3    📌 5

All I can think of is Leonard Cohen singing 'There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in' and how pertinent that feels to Lynch's art and spirit. He was such a bright, warm soul. A balm for a cruel world.

16.01.2025 18:47 — 👍 44    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

I cannot express how strongly this argument for language use to help neurodivergent people is an effective way forward. And this book - Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity by Jodie Hare (@versobooks.bsky.social) - should be read by everyone to, if nothing else, grant perspective.

I cannot express how strongly this argument for language use to help neurodivergent people is an effective way forward. And this book - Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity by Jodie Hare (@versobooks.bsky.social) - should be read by everyone to, if nothing else, grant perspective. #disability #autism #booksky

I cannot express how strongly this argument for language use to help neurodivergent people is an effective way forward. And this book - Autism Is Not a Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity by Jodie Hare (@versobooks.bsky.social) - should be read by everyone to, if nothing else, gain perspective.

08.12.2024 18:06 — 👍 32    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2

Autism to blame for my inappropriate actions, Gregg Wallace expected to tell inquiry Friends of MasterChef presenter are convinced he suffers from neurodiversity condition that explains behaviour

There should be a word for wealthy white cishet men who suddenly embrace being autistic solely to try to avoid accountability for their shitty behavior.

07.12.2024 11:18 — 👍 634    🔁 147    💬 73    📌 90

I love the Bishopsgate Institute so much.

30.11.2024 12:29 — 👍 676    🔁 123    💬 15    📌 13

"We should be making it easier for people to live, before we make it easier from them to die". Well put by Florence Eshalomi MP #AssistedDyingBill

29.11.2024 13:12 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

CCTV shows pupils abused and locked in padded room Police have said staff will not face action over abuse of autistic children shown in videos leaked to the BBC.

‘One autistic child was kept inside a cage.’ The dehumanisation & consistent abuse of autistic children & those with learning disabilities is appalling
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

27.11.2024 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lots going on behind the scenes event-wise at the moment (including an absolute dream event that I’m very close to finalising for Waterstones Deansgate!) but here’s a little sneak peek at what’s coming up at Blackwell’s Manchester over September and early October…

19.08.2024 16:39 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0