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FOREWORD: This article was first published in late April 2023 in the open-access journal of the European Society of Medicine (ESMED), Medical Research Archives (https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/3822). Free republication is authorized by ESMED “under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.”

Introduction

As of November 2024, the COVID-19 virus had infected a reported 777 million people worldwide, resulting in 7.1 million deaths, including some 1.2 million in the United States.¹ Placed in the context of other global crises and

Mark Soderstrom:

A beginning

Prison mirrors the society of which it forms a part, albeit in exaggerated form. Thus, we can gain a glimpse into how structures of power main-tain themselves by looking at how power is sustained within our crim-inal justice system. Violence, the threat of violence, certainly plays an outsized role in propping up the authority of the few who rule over the many.

Inspired in significant part by Edward Bellamy’s best-selling,

Readers of Socialism and Democracy may already be familiar with Tom Powell’s work.

Kali Akuno is a co-founder and director of Cooperation Jackson, which is an emerging network of worker cooperatives and supporting institutions.

Ideas and practices of communal