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Trump’s World Cup—and Mussolini’s
July 7th: Authoritarian regimes have regularly used the World Cup for sportswashing ~ Aris Chatzistefanou ~ It was only the second FIFA World Cup when FIFA b…
The forbidden truth we all know
July 6th: Imperial nostalgia is shoring up the remnants of a decaying order ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ 305 people received British Empire Medals in King’s Bir…
Capital punishment: The state’s strength and weakness
July 2nd: Killing prisoners does not rehabilitate them, nor does it benefit their victims ~ Wrona ~ The death penalty is again in the global headlines.
Platform centenary: Two readings
June 30th: A hundred yeas since the publication of The Organisational Platform of the General Union of the Libertarian Communists, we offer two opposing views…
Don’t expect Burnham to take the boot off our necks
June 25th: Without serious pressure, our putative PM is unlikely to overturn any of his predecessor’s ridiculous terror accusations, expansions of sur…
Social media ban: Less freedom, more isolation
June 23rd: The government wants to lower the voting age, so why treat us like children?
Starmer’s downfall – long time coming yet inevitable
June 23rd: The outgoing PM is a textbook example of a public figure who jettisoned principles in the search for power ~ Paul Gravett ~ The revolving door of U…
Jim Crow is still alive
June 20th: One day people will look at today’s global Apartheid the way we look at American Segregation ~ Joseph Chen ~ Whenever I turn back to the hist…
The Case of the Spinning Judge
June 18th: Imagine what it feels like to sentence war resisters as terrorists ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ My smallish eyes blink, and my central incisors catch the …
No consent to confinement
June 14th: UK Supreme Court muddies the waters on deprivation of liberty, as safeguards are stripped away ~ punkacademic ~ The Supreme Court last week ruled o…
Abolish AI – before it abolishes us
June 11th: Evidence of the existential threat posed to humanity by artificial intelligence accrues day by day ~ Bill Weinberg ~ The United Nations on 4 June i…
A K-shaped obfuscation
June 3rd: The tiny group following the upward economic path is assisted and enabled by the State at every turn ~ David D’Amato ~ The corporate press …
Paris ‘football riots’: Macron’s laboratory of repression
June 2nd: Police brutality towards jubilation in the streets showcases everything the establishment has learnt during his reign ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ It was Sat…
Bolivia as a laboratory of class struggle
May 29th: Is this the beginning of a counteroffensive in the streets against the new right-wing wave in Latin America?
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…
