The racist police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis has unleashed a Black led uprising in the US and inspired a wave of actions internationally and the demand to Defund the Police has become a central part of this. I’ve followed and engaged in quite a lot of discussions among people on the anti-capitalist left about the significance and possibilities of this demand.

   Though they have delayed too long and many employers are doing all they can to undermine the effort, the governments that are in the business of enabling capitalism are having to accept that self-isolation, on a massive and sustained scale, is unavoidable in the face of COVID-19.

   The World Health Organization has now acknowledged that the Coronavirus outbreak constitutes a pandemic, declaring that ‘..we are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity, and by the alarming levels of inaction.’ As this unfolds, the stock markets suffer hug