We discussed some of the outstanding aspects of the current situation, meaning, the global supply chain crunch; the pandemic and state measures; the labour shortage, inflation and pay disputes. If you are interested in participating in the upcoming face-to-face meeting, get in touch.
We could just repeat what we said when we looked back on 2020 – what an utter shit storm it was! Honestly, it was a bit of a drag to get through this year, both as individual lonely comrades and as a group that wants to meet in the flesh and get down to things. We tried our best to hold ourselves together, discussed quite a lot amongst ourselves and with comrades abroad, which is reflected in various articles on the blog. But let’s start with the few practical efforts amongst fellow workers that we engaged in this year.
The question of whether to support, oppose or remain defeatist about Covid-19 restrictions imposed by the state divides not just the left, but our own collectives. The following report and thoughts do not represent an AngryWorkers position, but hopefully they’re another small contribution to the debate. We’ve already published this translation of a text by Sergio Bologna (https://www.angryworkers.org/2021/12/10/we-cant-leave-the-idea-of-freedo.) on the notion of a neoliberal kind of individual ‘freedom’ that is attached to much of the discourse and ideologies around the vaccine.