Analysis
The roots of the French riots
July 10th: The gap that we usually see in heavily policed states between the “violence-done-to-people-of-colour-by-cops” and “what-those-cops-have-to-say-about-it”, is steadily closing in France.
Neo-Nazi Highland Division outnumbered & driven out of Elgin
June 20th: The fascists were outnumbered at least 20 to 1, and they were driven out of Elgin in one of the most humiliating defeats anyone could expect.
Stripping away our right to dissent
June 4th: Netpol’s Kevin Blowe rounds up the set of incoming laws which threaten to outlaw all but the most useless forms of protest..
Dreams within defeats: The Kurdish quest for meaning
June 2nd: “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
Frontex: Public relations not people
May 21st: Since 2016, Frontex has become the fastest growing EU agency, with a budget of close to €1 billion, and 11,000 employees.
Turkey elections: The myth of ‘free but not fair’
May 18th: To put it another way, it would be wrong-headed to oppose Erdoğan’s expected victory on the basis of certain electoral irregularities alone: the rot at the heart of Turkish democracy runs far deeper than that.
As election fraud shows, Erdoğan would never cede power
May 17th: The repression of the Turkish state is ever-present.
Coronation arrests will embolden dictators
May 8th: Today, British society may celebrate itself for supposedly being "liberal", "tolerant" or "multicultural", but all of these words are just empty catchwords of doctrinaire compliance, as mindless as the coronation day flag-waving and medieval-inspired monarchism.
What the local elections show about the weakness of English fascism
May 7th: So although none of the big-name English fascist groups did get candidates elected, some of the ‘independents’ elected this May in England may actually be neo-Nazis.
