The CareNotes Collective’s recent publication For Health Autonomy emerged in the new year, and new decade, just as the world began reeling from a profoundly destabilizing and deadly global health pandemic. Present and possible future outlooks now depend largely on how we have managed so far to mitigate the effects of the most fateful preexisting condition of all: capitalism. Our ability to do more than hope to survive—to live beyond the negotiated terms of survival—is a project for health autonomy. The politics of collective self-determination in the realm of health, and against premature death, has long been at the center of revolutionary abolitionist movements. You can explore the backdrop of the revolutionary politics that animate the CareNotes project by listening to their podcast here.