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Shoplifting as climate activism
May 28th: Truncheons and voluntary price caps are only appearing now because people have refused to pay what supermarkets demand ~ Nic Beuret ~ Last year Ic…
Patriarchy and capitalism: Two faces of the same domination
May 27th: True liberation demands simultaneous radical transformation in economic relations, power structures, gender dynamics, and forms of organisation ~ …
The continuing necessity of Black anarchism
May 17th: We can work with others, but we must be able to speak for ourselves ~ Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin ~ I have identified myself as an anarchist since …
At Filton trial, reality is barely a defence
May 14th: The state is crushing the tenets of UK law to silence opponents of genocide ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Dogs savaged children.
Reform is coming: Representation on parole
May 13th: Behind the electoral turbulence lies the decomposition of liberal democracy, as representation becomes less effective in securing stability ~ Blade…
Protest injunctions: A quiet weapon against activism
May 9th: Corporate Watch briefing warns of “two‑tier” system where civil injunctions pre‑empt dissent and criminal law punishes persistence ~ Scott …
Scottish election: Stay home or spoil your ballot
May 6th: Political parties are never coming to save us, we can actively resist in our everyday lives ~ Paul Haw ~ Even though well-meaning comrades have bee…
The King and the Emperor
April 30th: The press was ecstatic over Charles III’s visit to America – but fawning can’t mask the reality of British subservience ~ punkacademic ~ …
The underwhelming Posie Parker roadshow
April 25th: Notes on an Ipswich Saturday, in which a widely disliked political activist tried, and largely failed, to play her usual game of “look look I…
Liberal Zionism, packaged in Green
April 24th: Zack Polanski spreads definitional fog instead of confronting a settler-colonial regime ~ Georgio Lee ~ He is nothing short of a sensation.
Mónica Caballero: “Never let vulnerable comrades be or feel alone”
April 15th: The Chilean anarchist prisoner talks about her situation, views on patriarchy and speciesism, and anti-prison politics ~ La Zarzamora ~ La Zarazamo…
The 2026 Anarchist Bookfairs List
April 12th: Now into its ninth year, the increasingly venerable Freedom bookfairs list offers a healthy showing of old and new events.
Starmer’s Invisible Man act on Iran is fooling no-one
April 9th: A prime minister who takes umbrage at people holding cardboard signs was curiously silent as Iran was threatened with genocide ~ punkacademic ~ On …
Stop talking about AI – start talking about techno-fascism
April 8th: Technocracy and fascist politics are being embraced by megalomaniac elites scheming for their own survival ~ Ned Ludd ~ A couple of weeks ago I joi…
Trump’s racist rant against Somalis shows his imperialist ignorance
April 4th: During a White House Easter lunch, US President Donald Trump called people of Somali origin “low-IQ” and “bad people” ~ Thomas Tews ~ On We…
