Commune editor, Natasha Lennard, reflects on how pandemics "highlight the ways we are or are not already bound, and for whom those binds and boundaries are chains and chokeholds." Then gestures towards thinking about acting and organizing after the quarantine. A much needed meditation on these times!

After the Quarantine, The Flood by Natasha Lennard

Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials(2017) and Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit: History Since the End of History (2020) gives an informative and angering account of the COVID-19 relief bill, the lack of concern for reproductive labor, and a little counterproposal, as a treat.

Take Care by Malcolm Harris

A thirty minute listen from embedded writer, Nikola Garcia about the Estallido Social(social explosion)in Santiago, Chile. What started as a high schoolers jumping the turnstiles ended in April as a vibrant, multi-generational social movement sustaining daily ollas comunes (community kitchens) and other street-level services.

Living Through The Social Explosion by Nikola Garcia

Sarah Miller is the author of The Wider Path a review of Naomi Klein's On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. Here she is in conversation with Commune's review editor, Joshua Clover.

Joshua Clover interviews Sarah Miller

Commune Editor Madeline Lane McKinley on sharing burrows during disaster, being a mom during a disaster, and the utility of utopian thinking to burrow us out of disaster. This article appeared as the prescient editorial for fifth print issue.

The Year Of the Wombat by Madeline Lane McKinley

Logic Magazine's Ben Tarnoff on how in a few months, Covid-19 has remade our political horizons entirely.

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