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   Sheffield Mask Bloc (sheffieldmaskbloc@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 06:31:31 JST Sheffield Mask Bloc

   "The Long COVID unicorn: How I lost faith in my leftist political party": https://thesicktimes.org/2025/02/25/the-long-covid-unicorn-how-i-lost-faith-in-my-leftist-political-party/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-long-covid-unicorn-how-i-lost-faith-in-my-leftist-political-party

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 06:53:05 JST Jay Baker

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     @sheffieldmaskbloc Many of us witnessed the fracturing and undermining of anticapitalist resistance due to "labour" activists being more fixated on the jobs themselves than safe working environments at the start of the pandemic (I remember the TUC's grotesque tweet at the time simply repeating "jobs jobs jobs jobs..."). And no, the blame doesn't lie with principled antifascist, anti-eugenics, anti-ableist activists, either -- in fact, unless the labour movement and the "left" learn to embrace a truly intersectional approach, including rejecting Covid denialism promoted by the far right, we will be doomed. We need less individual, clout-chasing "organisers" keen to be seen, and more joined-up collectivism.