Freedom

The battle’s done – and we need more weapons

December 13th: It’s not fun to weigh in today amid the sadness of watching a triumphant, smug parade of Tory scumbags mouthing off about how they intend to …

13/12: A brief ABC of ACAB

December 12th: Regardless of who is voted in, two aspects of the social order will remain almost unnoticed, untouched and untroubled by a change of colour in the …

Five things that could happen to make election night interesting

December 12th: There will be anarchists that avoid the election and anarchists who soak it all up.

Five horrors from the Tory manifesto

December 5th: Jon Bigger has read the Conservative Party manifesto and it contains some very interesting passages on well-known policies and also some terrifying…

Courtesy of Guy Smallman

We are here, even if Macron doesn’t want it: One year of the Gilets Jaunes

December 1st: On November 16th the Gilets Jaunes movement marked one year since it burst onto the scene and threw a spanner in the works of President Macron’s …

Westminster’s re-Constitution after the crisis

November 26th: Whoever is in charge at Westminster, we can expect constitutional change to be at the top of the agenda for future governments.

The eviction of New Hope anti-fracking camp shows the blurry line between policing and private security

November 19th: In case you missed it: early this morning, a mob of dog-wielding bailiffs stormed the Camp of New Hope at Preston New Road, evicting frontline anti…

The Tory legacy: a lost decade and over 130,000 deaths through austerity

November 15th: Since 2001 around 100 people have been killed by terrorists in the UK.

General election 2019: Labour and the Tories pushing at extremes

November 8th: Over the last few weeks ‘moderate’ Tories have been stepping down from standing as candidates for parliament.

Police vs XR: What can be done about the Met’s Section 14 order?

October 15th: The Met have kicked off week 2 of the XR autumn rebellion with an almighty bang,  issuing a revised s14 order that effectively bans XR from pr…

“There is almost no green left”: the rise of the climate refugee

September 28th: Bangladesh, with its low-lying coastal regions and proximity to the equator, is in the unenviable position of being one of the most vulnerable coun…

Legal: Was Roger Hallam ‘pre-emptively’ arrested?

September 13th: In case you missed it: Roger Hallam, one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion, has been ‘pre-emptively’ arrested the day before he – an…

Lucien van der Walt: Should Anti-Capitalists Contest Elections?

September 10th: With yet another general election looming in Britain, this extensive treatment of the concept by veteran anarchist activist Lucien van der Walt loo…

Whatever the outcome of the present chaos, the far right will grow and we need to oppose them

September 8th: Parliamentary chaos and the looming No Deal Brexit have emboldened the far right.

Transgender women seeking asylum in the UK: shunned & sabotaged

August 16th: In an era of Trump and the rise of the far-right across the globe, it’s easy to see how our attentions may be diverted from the UK’s tedious fi…