Analysis
Gender egalitarianism vs patriarchy theory
January 29th: Were early human societies egalitarian?
From eXile to Dirtbag: Edgelord geopolitics and the rise of “National Bolshevism”
January 23rd: Alexander Reid Ross takes an in-depth look at the genesis of the new Red fascism as it metastasized in Russia and spread to the alt right in the US.
Italian anarchists on the extradition of Cesare Battisti
January 21st: The former armed strugglist, active in the 1970s as part of an autonomist Marxist cell, was recently captured and flown to Italy from Bolivia after 38 years on the run.
Brexit Anarchy: We Need to Take Back Control from Westminster
January 18th: One of the phrases that came out of the Brexit referendum campaign time and time again was “taking back control”, writes Jon Bigger.
Universal Credit delayed, and the false dawn of basic income
January 14th: On the same weekend the BBC finally screened Ken Loach’s harrowing “I Daniel Blake”, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions announced she was reviewing the roll-out of Universal Credit, the government’s notorious new benefit system.
Radical media and the blurred lines of ‘red’ fascism
January 13th: Javier Sethness looks at the modern rise of “red-brown” politics and its infection of the left through the lens of a recent Indy Media on Air showing with prominent radical media figure Chris Burnett, which gave Assadist hardliner Vanessa Beeley a platform offering oddly softball questions.
Portugal: The dockers’ struggle
January 2nd: Pedro Friere takes a deep dive into the background of dockworker strikes in Portugal, which kicked off spectacularly in November with casualised workers taking action in Setúbal and overtime bans linked to proposed pay cuts holding across most of the country’s major ports.
The Movement as Battleground Fighting for the Soul of the Yellow Vest Movement
December 27th: This analysis of the happenings in France was originally published by Crimethinc on 6th December 2018.
Building coalitions outside SUTR/SWP: London Anarchist Federation write up on 9th December Antifascist mobilisaton
December 20th: Stand Up To Racism/Unite Against Fascism (which I will treat as interchangeable from this point) already has a less than stellar reputation among anti-fascists, and their behaviour on the mobilisation against Tommy Robinson on the 9th of December has done nothing to challenge that reputation.
Silent givers: How the government manipulates charity
December 18th: A recent furore in Scotland has focused on the Foreign Office playing piggy bank to a small ‘anti-fake news’ charity, but State policy is continually puppeteering NGOs in far grander and more insidious ways — and it has recently gotten considerably worse.
