Clean energy can’t save us

October 10th: From green consumerism to degrowth and radical systemic change ~ Yavor Tarinski ~ It is a good thing that there is increasingly more talk about the looming catastrophe that threatens our societies because of climate change and deepening ecological crises.

Hate fascism, hate the spectacle: Far right wins Austrian elections

October 9th: Instead of self-righteous identity politics, our practice should oppose fake empowerment narratives ~ Anon Grata ~ A right-wing populist party has won the elections in yet another European country—but as the international media reminds us, it’s not any country: it’s both the birthplace of the leader of historical Nazi-Fascism, and the cradle of modern post-fascist

How valuable are “British values”?

October 8th: A teacher and philosophical anarchist reflects on schools' imposed language~ Scott Lux ~I have two confessions to make; First, I am part of the state system: I am a teacher, inculcating society’s rules in this sociocultural context since the mid-1990s.

Notes from the US: Subterfuge and force

September 23rd: Racism and the threat to enforce it by violence seem to be lapping into ever more areas of public life ~ Louis Further ~ The fervent inbuilt racism of many (most?) members of the élite — especially, but not only, on the right, and certainly woven into the fabric of the Republican Party — continues

Seattle is never coming back: Reflections on the Democratic National Convention

September 13th: Aboveground organizers will need to facilitate practical experimentation by belowground militants, who in turn must cultivate zones of indistinction from the broader, legal movement ~ Lake Effect Collective The Democratic National Convention descended on Chicago during the last week of August, bringing with it swarms of police and politicians who quickly rendered the city uninhabitable.