Freedom

Book review: Squat The City!

June 24th: Why does praxis feel so dreary – and what can be done about it?

Starmer’s downfall – long time coming yet inevitable

June 23rd: The outgoing PM is a textbook example of a public figure who jettisoned principles in the search for power ~ Paul Gravett ~ The revolving door of U…

EU votes to speed up deportations

June 22nd: Removal of undocumented people becomes easier as far-right international continues to rise ~ Blade Runner ~ An alliance of centre-right and far-rig…

Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland

June 21st: Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…

Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy

June 22nd: MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …

Israeli academia “under command”

June 10th: Report exposes Israeli higher education’s collaboration with military and arms manufacturers ~ Nissi Peli ~ Israel’s deliberate and thoroug…

Marjane Satrapi and Iran: Dying of sadness

June 6th: A political homage to the author of Persepolis who passed away this week ~ Juan Cáspar ~ Editor’s note: We have [bracketed] two cases where …

Mr. Scorsese, the business is not in flux

June 24th: How an iconic director became AI’s newest pitchman — and why it matters ~ Joel Sucher ~ The industry verdict came in fast and it wasn’t pretty.

Lament for a lost revolution

June 21st: A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.

Radical Reprint: World Cup (fascist) fever

June 7th: This week we turn back to 1978, and another international football tournament legitimating a dictatorship ~ punkacademic ~ So it’s finally here: …

Social media ban: Less freedom, more isolation

June 23rd: The government wants to lower the voting age, so why treat us like children?

Jim Crow is still alive

June 20th: One day people will look at today’s global Apartheid the way we look at American Segregation ~ Joseph Chen ~ Whenever I turn back to the hist…

The Case of the Spinning Judge

June 18th: Imagine what it feels like to sentence war resisters as terrorists ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ My smallish eyes blink, and my central incisors catch the …