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COVID-19

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The disease was first identified in 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, and has since spread globally, resulting in the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic opened new avenues for anarchist organizing, in particular mutual aid, direct action via rent strikes, and prison uprisings. Anarchist literature about the pandemic also critiques how states use the crisis as an opportunity to expand and reproduce state power and develop new forms of authoritarian control. This section of The Anarchist Library documents and archives various anarchist and libertarian literature written about the COVID-19 pandemic.

Possibilities after corona — Evo Busseniers Aug 7, 2020 10 pp.
Post Covid Riot Prime Manifest — Anonymous Sep 30, 2021 21 pp.
Prison-State UK comes into Law : Coronavirus — Anonymous Apr 5, 2020 6 pp.
The Quarantine Commune — Spencer Beswick Sep 15, 2022 4 pp.
Reflections on Rent Strike Vancouver — Anonymous Mar 31, 2020 4 pp.
The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions — Anonymous Apr 29, 2020 59 pp.
To Set Up Dikes Against the Dystopia of State and Bosses — Assembly against state repression and in solidarity with the squats Jul 10, 2022 7 pp.
Sketches of a Critique of Lockdown — Anonymous Jul 10, 2022 10 pp.
Social Contagion — 闯 Chuǎng Apr 8, 2020 38 pp.
The Social Contract: Direct Action Gets the Goods — X394126 Jul 5, 2023 8 pp.
Social Ecology and Social Immunity in the time of Sars 2 — Usufruct Collective Apr 13, 2020 11 pp.
Some old things to live by, some new things to live by… — Darkness Outside Mar 28, 2020 11 pp.
Specter of time & work abolition — chusma chusma Jan 5, 2022 3 pp.
Statement and Demands Regarding Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic — Muktivadi Ekta Morcha (Libertarian Solidarity Front) Apr 1, 2020 3 pp.
Statement by USI-CIT health workers — USI-CIT Milan Hospitals and USI-CIT Health Workers Mar 31, 2020 4 pp.
A Statement on the Failure of the Left in General — Zündlumpen Jun 5, 2021 6 pp.
‘The state will not save us, only we can save us’ — Anonymous Apr 1, 2020 8 pp.
Stop gambling with our lives! We won’t be a human shield for the Corona crisis! — National Committee of IP — The Workers’ Initiative Union Mar 31, 2020 7 pp.
Strikes around the world over Coronavirus — Anarchist Communist Group Apr 2, 2020 7 pp.
Survival is Resistance — CrimethInc. Apr 8, 2020 8 pp.
Survival of the Fittest in the Time of Pandemic — Safehouse Infoshop May 4, 2020 4 pp.
Surviving the Virus — CrimethInc. Mar 27, 2020 15 pp.
Swines, too, Have Their Freedom of Grunting — Anarchist Yondae (Anarchist Solidarity) Mar 15, 2021 6 pp.
Theses on Covid-1984 — Anonymous Jul 10, 2022 53 pp.
Thinking Through Vaccine Mandates — Black Flag Sydney Nov 7, 2021 14 pp.
This anarchist thinker helps explain why we feel so driven to help each other through the coronavirus crisis — Ruth Kinna & Thomas Swann Mar 31, 2020 5 pp.
This System is Making Us Sick — IWA Secretariat Mar 28, 2020 6 pp.
The Threat of Contagion — Massimo De Carolis Mar 27, 2020 5 pp.
Toilet Paper Wars and the Shithouse of Capitalism — Simon Springer Mar 31, 2020 5 pp.
To Pay is to Die — Bandilang Itim May 1, 2020 5 pp.
To Reach Out And Touch One Another — Salish Sea Black Autonomists Apr 29, 2020 41 pp.
To save the world, we’re going to have to stop working — David Graeber Sep 19, 2020 4 pp.
Transition to disaster — Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group Oct 12, 2021 4 pp.
Unauthorized Freedom — Carlo Salzani Mar 19, 2023 17 pp.
A walk on the edge… a jump to nowhere — Amici di penna Mar 31, 2020 13 pp.
War Continues, But So Do I! — Julian Langer Mar 11, 2022 5 pp.
We Defend Each Other — CrimethInc. Apr 8, 2020 4 pp.
What’s Worth Dying for? — CrimethInc. Apr 29, 2020 8 pp.
What The Virus Said — Anonymous Apr 1, 2020 7 pp.
When Adam Dolve — Tom Martin May 15, 2020 12 pp.
When a disease is racialized — Edward Hon-Sing Wong Mar 28, 2020 6 pp.
When do you stop going to work? — Chris Sep 19, 2023 7 pp.
A Whisper from Nowhere — Anonymous Jul 10, 2022 3 pp.
Why I don’t want you to clap for me — A dark & salty nurse Apr 28, 2020 8 pp.
Women and Coronavirus — Anarchist Communist Group Apr 10, 2020 8 pp.
Words Mean Things — Anathema Feb 5, 2023 3 pp.
The Worst Virus Ever… Authority — Anonymous Mar 28, 2020 4 pp.
The Year the World Went Viral — Gilles Dauvé Aug 6, 2022 31 pp.