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Legal ‘wins’ on the road to ecocide
February 6th: Carbon capitalism is going nowhere without social transformation—and it won’t happen through the courts ~ Blade Runner ~ In what has been described as “a huge victory” for Greenpeace and Uplift, Scotland’s Court of Session ruled on 30 January that the government’s approval of the Rosebank oil field was unlawful.
Anarchist News Review: Spain evictions, Greek protests, and UK climate politics
February 5th: Southern Europe offers us food for thought while New New Labour fails to surprise— and Reform is taking advantage of the situation As ever, Spain is showing us how to do things when it comes to eviction resistance, while context is key to understand the ongoing anger over mass uproar related to the sidelining of
Mobilise against Trumpism—also in the UK
February 4th: It might be small scale to begin with, but we all need an opportunity to come together in positive resistance ~ Jon Bigger ~ Like many people in the UK, I awoke the morning after the US presidential election feeling numb and despondent.
Anarchist News Review: Cheap AI panic, Extremism (un)defined and Liberal ineffectualism
January 28th: A winding discussion starts with China’s Deepseek and its impact on US dominance in the sphere of artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence? Even the name doesn’t compute
January 28th: Starmer was dragged out to promote AI as hasty cover for his administration’s failings, and said exactly what he was expected to ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ A vast, flashy, rapacious, multi-tentacled parasite swarms the planet, embedding itself ever deeper into the collective psyche.
A tsunami is made of many droplets
January 26th: The mismanagement of Thames Water is not the first scandal of its kind, but when our very water is at risk it is time to stop letting rich people pretend they are best left in charge ~ Rob Ray ~ Back in the 2000s, before it was all being run by TfL, I wrote a
Do It Yourselves and take care of each other
January 23rd: Reflections on three decades of environmental activism ~ Helen Baczkowska ~ The first thing to do was to re-arrange the furniture—what was set out for a speaker and audience quickly became a rough circle.
Will the real Proudhon please stand up?
January 20th: Instead of anarchist lore, we need historical context and an open mind ~ Shawn P Wilbur ~ It’s challenging to think about Pierre-Joseph Proudhon today: like it or not, we struggle with him in his role as a progenitor, precursor, pioneer, as the first to say “Je suis anarchiste”, under circumstances where that declaration simply
Who needs Proudhon?
January 18th: 160 years after his death, the first self-proclaimed anarchist deserves criticism—but not oblivion ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon died on January 19, 1865, at the age of 56.
Notes from the US: “This is Trump’s America now”
January 15th: Catastrophic fires and racist attacks, climate denial and religious coercion—and Trump hasn’t even taken power yet ~ Louis Further ~ Next week—in contravention of Section 3 of the 14th amendment to the US constitution—the leader of the most powerful nation in the world will be a convicted felon, and someone who has evaded three other
