Novara FM: Will We Still Be Mad After Capitalism?
Mad World author Micha Frazer-Carroll tells Charlotte England why mental health is a political matter.
Tag: mental illness
Opinion: Mental Health Diagnoses Are Capitalist Constructs
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Mental and physical diagnoses aren’t objective facts that exist in nature, writes Micha Frazer-Carroll: they're constructed by capitalism.
Opinion: Losing Your Mind Is a Proportionate Response to the Climate Crisis
Charlie Hertzog Young
Those who buckle in the face of climate collapse are entirely in tune with reality, writes Charlie Hertzog Young.
Downstream: The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People
Ellen Clifford speaks to Michael Walker about her book “The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of Human Catastrophe”, including an explanation of the Social Model of Disability, the history of the Disabled People’s Movement, and the disastrous consequences of austerity policies.
Opinion: Yes, Mental Health Counts As Disability
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Even people who live with mental distress are often reluctant to recognise it as disability, writes Micha Frazer-Carroll. But doing so could help us understand that many of our problems are caused by the way in which society is constructed - and to organise together to change it.
Opinion: It’s Not Enough to Defend the Five-Day Week – We Must Demand Four
Aidan Harper
Overworked Britons breathed a sigh of relief when the Tories abandoned rumoured plans to remove the 48-hour cap on the working week. This scare should shock us out of our complacency about working hours, writes Aidan Harper, and restart the fight for a 32-hour week.
Opinion: Coronavirus Has Had a Devastating Impact on Mental Health, but It Didn’t Have to Be This Way
Harriet Williamson
Coronavirus was always going to be difficult for people with mental health conditions, but political decisions rooted in Tory ideology have made things much worse, writes Harriet Williamson.
Tackling the Mental Health Crisis Means Defeating Neoliberalism Once and For All
Jay Watts
Labour needs to get radical, resisting the cross-party agreements on mental illness which foreclose the reality that though we may ‘all have mental health’ the chance of us breaking down are deeply indexed to our relative place in society.
‘This Is Belonging’: How the Army Stole Utopia
Maddy Ridgley
A hypocritical and dangerous new recruitment drive by the British army promises working class men an escape from the loneliness and isolation of neoliberalism, using Instagram style ads and ideas of utopia taken from the anti-capitalist left.
4 Theses on Depression and Radical Praxis
Sophie Monk and Joni (Pitt) Cohen
With rates of depression on the rise, it's clear that our mental health is a condition of the political situation in which we live. Here are four propositions for how to approach radical anti-capitalist praxis in an age of mass depression.