It’s easy to feel a bit useless stuck indoors while an unprecedented disaster unfolds outside, especially if you’re normally out on the picket lines or waving placards outside parliament. But don’t hang up your megaphones just yet.

Droves of campaigns have quickly adapted to the lockdown, with hundreds of political webinars, digital protests, podcasts and more to keep your activist diary full. 

So here it is, the Morning Star’s first guide to the upcoming week’s virtual-lefty events.

To kick off your week, tune in TODAY (7pm) for Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Webinar: Palestinians in Jerusalem (mstar.link/palestinejerusalem). Unsurprisingly, Israeli apartheid has not been put on hold during the crisis, with one response for its citizens and another for the Palestinians. Today’s discussion on Zoom* will look at the complicated situation in occupied East Jerusalem, hearing from residents living the crisis first-hand.

In the space of a few short weeks, we saw the government’s hated “low-skilled” migrant worker suddenly transform into the heroic “key-worker.” To discuss how language around migration has shifted, and the future for migration policy in Britain, join NEON’s webinar Coronavirus and Migration - What’s Happening and Where Next on Tuesday at 4.30pm (mstar.link/coronamigration). After that, if you haven't yet had your fill of political discussion, tune in at 6pm for Stop the War’s webinar on “Coronavirus & War: The Case for a Global Ceasefire” (mstar.link/viruswar). The event will hear important insights into how the crisis is re-shaping foreign-policy priorities, from Labour MP Claudia Webbe and US activist and writer Phyllis Bennis.

If you haven’t yet listened in to DiEM25 TV’s “radically hopeful” series on what the post-coronavirus world will look like, then now is the time. With a full programme every week, there are always great discussions to choose from to help you look beyond the lock down (mstar.link/diem25).

This year there are many reasons May Day will be different from any other - and not just because it’s probably the first one you’ll spend at home. While the international Labour movement has been celebrating workers, and workers’ rights for centuries, in the past few months, the rest of society has started to do the same. The sad thing is, it took a pandemic for them to do it. To mark the occasion London May Day has asked unions to send in video messages which you can watch all day on Friday on their website (londonmayday.org).

If you know or are hosting any digital events you’d like featured in this column, please get in contact at [email protected].

*If you have not yet been acquainted with Zoom — the digital version of a stuffy meeting room - then not to worry, it’s fairly easy to navigate. For events held on the conference call portal, you will need to register beforehand by clicking the link provided on the event and putting in your details. After this you’ll be given a URL link which will be sent to your email. Click on this link shortly before the event is due to start and you’ll be taken directly to the call. Good luck!