Coronavirus, Class and Mutual Aid in the United Kingdom

by Rhiannon Firth, John Preston, John Preston

This book considers how the UK government's response to the recent COVID-19 pandemic disadvantages the working class, and how mutual aid, based on anarchist principles, can be used as a force for social change.

The authors draw on Marxist and anarchist thought in class theory and social movement analysis to demonstrate that the virus and its material and discursive consequences are an active part of continuing class struggle and class interpolation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030577139
• ISBN13: 9783030577131
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"