Reposted by Jonas MarvinDom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social · 20/03/2025As Labour launch an assault on disability benefits, I found this essay by @jonasmarvin.bsky.social refreshingly indignant and powerfully moving. proletarianblues.substack.com/p/the-party-...proletarianblues.substack.comThe Party of Labour Wants to Get Britain Back to Work'Get back to work!', or when mute compulsion is no longer so quiet... 131
Reposted by Jonas MarvinBob From Brockley @bobfrombrockley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025This by @jonasmarvin.bsky.social in @newpolitics.bsky.social is from back in August, when Britain’s far right was perpetrating pogroms on our streets. Raised some really important issues powerfully. newpol.org/four-theses-...newpol.orgFour theses on Fascism, Pogroms and Liberation - New PoliticsJonas Marvin reflects on the far-right riots in Britain and how anti-fascists should respond. 2107
Jonas Marvin @jonasmarvin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Me writing on the recent counter-revolution against worklessness: proletarianblues.substack.com/p/a-nation-o...proletarianblues.substack.comA Nation of Sick Proletarians ReloadedFor bourgeois politics, the health figures are just too bad to be true. 010
Jonas Marvin @jonasmarvin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024If you want to read more about this from me, subscribe to Salvage and catch the next issue! salvage.zone 5/5salvage.zoneHome - SalvageSalvage is a journal of revolutionary arts and letters, committed to publishing the best radical essays, poems, art and fiction. 010
Jonas Marvin @jonasmarvin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024For communists, we need to develop a vision of good health, social freedom and postwork which combines the politics of repair and revolution, shorn from an embattled vision of social democracy. The rise of the Trumpian Make America Healthy Again is more than a warning shot. 4/5 141
Jonas Marvin @jonasmarvin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024The 'Get Britain Working' paper tells the sick, the disabled and the ageing that you are going to be made healthy again with weight-loss jabs, workplace MOTs and job coaches on hospital wards, just so that we can get you back on the labour market, making Britain grow again. 3/5 110
Jonas Marvin @jonasmarvin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024The Assisted Dying Bill takes an abstract right and divorces the choice over premature death from the mediations which shape it: social misery, organised abandonment, ableism and a vicious care sector. It provides capitalism with an answer to the cost of demographic ageing. 2/5 110
Jonas Marvin @jonasmarvin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024It's key to grasp the Assisted Dying Bill and the DWP's 'Get Britain Working' paper as two sides of the same coin. We live in a world where older, sicker populations are less productive and cost more. Both pieces of legislation provide capitalism some answers to those issues. 1/5 152