A-Infos (en) Britain, freedom news: Rupture Zine Lockdown Special is here

Sorry to go all class war on you but fucking hell, class war!: Our friends from Rupture Zine: a publication on squats, social centres, art, 
activism and free parties; have produced an online lockdown special and it is full of joys. Below, we publish a sample of what you are to 
expect from it. ---- At the beginning of the lockdown, I had grand dreams of the fall of capitalism and visions of a burgeoning anarchist 
utopia like a baby deer stumbling to its feet. As time goes by the more foolish I feel about believing in that idealistic dream. I keep 
hearing the sentence "what should the world look like after this?". At first, that seemed a positive wave of politicised thought throughout 
the country. But now I've started to wonder if sometimes all that is meant by it is that the people who are now furloughed from their 
middle-class jobs don't have to go back to working five days a week! Really, there is nothing wrong with that desire...

But it seems to me there are two realities going on right now: 1. People in lockdown are isolated from their lives and support system and 
although I don't want to undermine anyone's struggle with this, especially those living in unsafe situations, I am frustrated by that being 
the prominent story line being told at the moment. Because reality 2. is the people holding together the situation (and I feel their voices 
are being lost) - the delivery people, postal service, the take-away places, the people working in the shops, the cleaners, and the bus and 
train drivers; there is still roadwork and construction work being done. We are in a situation where there are people feeling grateful for 
work that's putting their lives at risk because keeping themselves and their family's financially stable is more of an immediate worry.

At the beginning of the lockdown, whilst I was lost in my own wishful thinking, I felt sure that the government would have no choice but to 
bring in universal basic income. How naive I was - our government doesn't need to keep everyone safe to stay in power, it just needs to 
avert attention away from the people it doesn't care about; and they seem to be doing that depressingly effectively.

They encourage us to clap once a week for NHS but have made no comment on the fact they have been systematically destroying it since they 
came to power. NHS staff still aren't being sourced enough PPE to keep themselves alive - ALIVE for fuck sake. But still, Boris gets 
glorified for catching the virus even though he wasn't following his own distancing rules and most probably infected a multitude of others 
along the way.

I have now lost my hope that the current situation will make social change a necessity. Rees-Mogg's been telling clients of his investment 
firm "History has shown us that super normal returns can be made during this type of environment". At the same time as the fire service 
getting 15% cuts over the next year!

So back to the question - what should the world look like after this? If the narrative is to be based around looking at this time as a 
hiatus to imagine the society we want to build after we emerge I don't think we stand a chance. If it's based on making a society that wants 
to see an end to a class divide that became more vivid during a pandemic where millions of people weren't privileged enough go on that 
hiatus, we might at least start by going in the right direction.

Lucy Hutson

Along with the above text, in the new Rupture you will find:

Lockdown special edition - editorial
Human rights are also for people I cannot fucking stand (rant)
Random Artists presents... Televised Autonomous Art
May Day 2020 - International Workers Day during a pandemic
TAA autumn 2019 writeup
What is TAA?
Guerillas in the Midst (guerilla gardening)
Loving Miss Daisy (story)
Rural Murals (article)
Squatdoku
Update from Disgraca, Lisbon (article)
Proton Art
Frontline magazine news
LOTS of artwork, poetry and prose
DIY or Die guide to making face masks
You can download the whole issue here. https://rupturezine.org/ 
https://rupturezine.org/pdf/Rupture_zine%E2%80%932020_spring-(lockdown_special).pdf

https://freedomnews.org.uk/sorry-to-go-all-class-war-on-you-but-fucking-hell-class-war-rupture-zine-lockdown-special-is-here/
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