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Argentina’s new President: ‘Crisis and confrontation’

January 1st: It is difficult to imagine that he can carry out his 'anarcho-capitalist' postulates of eliminating the State since the State and capital are compl…

Stamped on a human facial recognition database, forever  

December 28th: Rob Ray writes on proposals to roll out facial recognition cameras across Britain, alongside the bringing of passport photos into police databases.

Enhancing diverse democracy: NE Syria’s new Social Contract

December 23rd: Like Rousseau’s theoretical proposal, the real-world ‘social contract’ based on Öcalan’s ideas is, in many ways, an attempt to reckon with…

Notes from the US: Falling apart

December 19th: At this point in the history of the U.S.

R.I.P George Floyd: An indictment of police

December 18th: While it is fairly evident that the size and organisation of a centrally managed police force have no bearing on the level of crime, it is just as …

Wethersfield camp causing irreparable harm to asylum seekers

December 15th: "I came through Libya, and this place is no different."

For Kurds, Kissinger’s cynical realpolitik capped a century of US betrayal

December 7th: In Kissinger’s ultra-realist perspective, the state and only the state could serve as a legitimate or functional vehicle for foreign policy, with…

The travails of Patriotic Alternative

December 3rd: Anti-fascist research group Red Flare report on the far-right group's trajectory and split.

Police invade Kurdish Assembly

November 27th: This invasion by the Metropolitan Police comes only two days after UK defence minister Grant Shapps and Turkish counterpart Yaşar Güler held a me…

Barcelona: La Ruïna and el Kubo will not die

November 25th: See you on November 30 at 5:30 a.m.

Confronting DSEI needs a long strategy

November 19th: Emily Apple writes on resistance to the bi-annual arms dealing circus and where the movement against it can go next.

Notes from the US: “MAGA Is Ascendant”

November 16th: Reason is missing.

The right discards its free speech fig leaf

November 4th: The political classes’ consensus is that the left has a problem with Palestine – but panic and the urge to repress is not coming from that quar…

A lot of despair right now: Interview with an Israeli anarchist

October 22nd: It is clear that when we come out of this, and there are elections, the Far Right will be done with.

Next steps in civil resistance

October 20th: Industrial capitalism is the target and climate the context.