Analysis
Anarchist News Review: Profiteering off climate disasters, abandoned allies, and Durham’s big day out
July 17th: Insurance bonds may be dry, but they’re also the closest you’ll get to capitalists’ actual assessment of the problem …
Anarchist News Review: Grok The Nazi, Rishi’s Return To Banking and Cartel Cash Bungs
July 10th: While Elon Musk struggles to get his AI to stop calling itself Mecha Hitler, the less techy wing of the elites are up to old tricks …
Will the ban on Palestine Action terrify enough people into silence?
July 8th: The proscription is part of a wider push to stifle dissent in an increasingly authoritarian Britain ~ Kevin Blowe ~ The repression of political dissent in Britain has been escalating for years: first against Black Lives Matter and environmental campaigners and now the Palestine solidarity movement.
A protest is a threat
July 7th: Without the promise of a people near revolt, demonstrations that inconvenience no-one can easily be brushed aside ~ Sourdough ~ On June 14 across the US and several other countries, protests took place under the title of No Kings.
“Let us become beautiful ourselves”: Élisée Reclus on vegetarianism, anarchism, and colonial violence
July 5th: The great geographer and theorist of anarchist communism was part of a radical milieu that engaged a wide range of social issues, from capitalism and colonialism to free love and animal rights ~ Spencer Beswick ~ In his classic essay “On Vegetarianism” (1901), Élisée Reclus wrote a stirring defense of it as an ethical and
Elisée Reclus: 5 levels of social-ecological practice
July 5th: His compelling and realistic revolutionary vision shows the preconditions for a liberated world ~ John P Clark ~ Elisée Reclus (1830-1905) was one of the foremost geographers of his age, a major figure in anarchist political thought, and a lifelong revolutionary who played an active role in the Paris Commune and the First International.
Élisée Reclus on anarchy and nature
July 4th: For the great anarchist geographer, anarchy was at play in every natural relationship grounded in solidarity ~ Fabio Carnevali ~ Reclus was the anarchist who “never commanded anyone, and never will”, as his younger friend Kropotkin said of him, as well as the geographer for whom many important scientists—including Charles Darwin—mobilised when he risked being
Vilifying the Vylans or: How I learned to stop censoring and call for death to the BBC
July 4th: The clumsy attempt to silence artists opposing genocide only makes their message louder ~ Stanton Cree ~ Over the last week I found myself in the interesting position of having to navigate the British establishment’s censorship just to listen to a bit of music, watch some TV, and a film.
Anarchist News Review: The proscribing of Palestine Action
July 3rd: We don’t have long before old-fashioned authoritarian State censorship is employed to stop us talking about one of the most shameful episodes in recent Labour history.
Palestine Action proscription: Criminalising effectiveness
June 30th: The proposed ban, rooted in colonial counter-insurgency law, could end up demystifying direct action and increasing public resolve ~ Blade Runner ~ This week, the UK Parliament is expected to approve the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000.
