Freedom

Anarchist News Review: Farage’s Icy Heart and AI IPO shenanigans

June 5th: Andy and Simon talking about Nigel Farage coldly provoking a far-right rager, of course.

A K-shaped obfuscation

June 3rd: The tiny group following the upward economic path is assisted and enabled by the State at every turn ~ David D’Amato ~ The corporate press …

Shoplifting as climate activism

May 28th: Truncheons and voluntary price caps are only appearing now because people have refused to pay what supermarkets demand ~ Nic Beuret ~ Last year Ic…

Patriarchy and capitalism: Two faces of the same domination

May 27th: True liberation demands simultaneous radical transformation in economic relations, power structures, gender dynamics, and forms of organisation ~ …

Anarchist News Review: Election results analysis

May 11th: Mike and Jon get together to pick apart Labour losses, Reform gains, Starmer’s future, and hung parliaments in Wales and Scotland ~  

Protest injunctions: A quiet weapon against activism

May 9th: Corporate Watch briefing warns of “two‑tier” system where civil injunctions pre‑empt dissent and criminal law punishes persistence ~ Scott …

Notes from the US: A long, dark tunnel

April 13th: With Americans so poorly informed, it’s hardly surprising that their acceptance of atrocities is correspondingly high ~ Louis Further ~ The &…

Stop talking about AI – start talking about techno-fascism

April 8th: Technocracy and fascist politics are being embraced by megalomaniac elites scheming for their own survival ~ Ned Ludd ~ A couple of weeks ago I joi…

Why do Leninists and capitalists sound the same online?

March 31st: A shared style of argument reveals something deeper about how people relate to ideology, authority, and criticism ~ Slow Burning Fuse ~ Spend enoug…

Repression is not defeated by ballots

March 30th: Nearly all the tools for a police state are now in place, just waiting for the far right to take over ~ Rob Ray ~ Many people have heard of the “…

Hormuz lays bare our fossil dependency

March 23rd: Food, fuel and pharmaceuticals will all be affected by the blockade ~ Nicholas Beuret ~ By now you’re probably sick of hearing how much oil and …

BBC brings in the tech bros

March 18th: The prospect of UK state media being run by a former Google executive raises serious questions ~ punkacademic ~ News that Matt Brittin, the former …

UK is culpable in Iran attack, whatever Starmer says

March 2nd: It’s hard to expect a nation which reveres official secrecy and popular self-delusion to admit to evil in real time ~ punkacademic ~ On Satur…

SEND reforms: Cuts and culture wars

February 25th: Reducing SEND provision is part of a wider fight against the disabled and the young ~ punkacademic ~ Labour’s long-awaited announcement of ‘ref…

Watching the far right

February 8th: ~ Anti-fascist update with Alex Robert ~  What can you tell us about activist monitoring of the far right?