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Anarchist News Review: Spycops victims, IWD and protest sentencing results
March 13th: It’s was inevitable that Starmerite Labour would come for welfare in a vain attempt to look tough on the poor ~ We discuss the implications of that, talk about the factors which make the sort of international solidarity of the IWD marches so important, and on the (somewhat related) shameful behaviour of the State as
Toby Shone: “The state machine is terrified of the links we make with each other”
March 12th: The freed anarchist prisoner spoke about solidarity and abolition at the Brighton Cowley Club ~ Elizabeth Vasileva ~ A talk by anarchist ex-prisoner Toby Shone at the Cowley Club in Brighton drew almost 20 people on Friday (7 March).
Irrational terror & the bullshit factory
March 6th: Liberals continue to prove the willing, if snarky, foot-soldiers of fascism ~ Sourdough ~ Political reality is changing at ever-quickening speeds, it seems: the newly emboldened and ascendant fascists in the United States and abroad are making a continuing effort to produce one calamity and crisis after the next, creating a perpetual stream of never-ending
The Matrix has you
February 28th: Algorithms are shaping our thoughts and behaviours in dangerous ways ~ Matthew Gaffen ~ “The Matrix” already exists—we’re not all asleep in vats being used as batteries, but to a greater or lesser extent we have all been trapped in an invisible prison, used to subjugate everyone under its influence.
Starm Wars
February 27th: The Prime Minister’s announcement of increased defence spending signals a turn towards militarism ~ Stanton Cree ~ Keir Starmer has announced a raise in UK defence spending from 2.3% to 2.5% of GDP, signalling the beginning of “the largest UK arms race since the end of the Second World War”.
German elections: On the way to a new Reich?
February 26th: The country is slowly drifting into the hands of the extreme right, repeating the steps that brought Adolf Hitler to power ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ There is a certain feeling of despair when you talk to German antifascists or anarchists these days.
Putin’s friend blackmails Ukraine
February 24th: After three years of full-scale war, we now face an authoritarian world order ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, believing in it’s own imperial myth of military strength.
Anarchist News Review: Labour mirrors Trump and the US gets blunt over geopolitics
February 20th: Uri Gordon hosts a Freedom discussion on why it is Labour has accelerated its rightwards journey on topics as wideranging as defence, migration and oversight in the wake of chaotic US change.
Do it like Trump—Labour targets migrants
February 17th: Labour’s rebranding aligns with a global surge in far-right, anti-migrant rhetoric ~ Blade Runner ~ Labour’s government is celebrating record deportation figures while pushing through draconian new legislation that criminalises migration to an unprecedented degree.
“McLibel demonstrated the huge potential of coordinated grassroots action”
February 16th: As the UK spycops inquiry continues, a prominent target of police overreach reflects on their internationalism—and ours ~ Dave Morris ~ Victories continue to stack up in the campaign to expose and challenge the Met Police’s spycops scandal.
