Comment
On the necessity of activist legal support in the wake of police repression
March 24th: Like the Black Lives Matter protests of last year, the wave of protests against the Policing Crimes and Sentencing Bill have been met by police repression.
The political policing of Cressida Dick
March 14th: After the events of the last few days, there are calls for the resignations of the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, and the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan.
8 accused of burning a police van in Barcelona
March 13th: On the 27th of February, 8 of our comrades were arrested during a demonstration in the centre of Barcelona.
International anarchist statement on the centenary of the 1921 Kronstadt Uprising
March 7th: Today marks the 100th annviersary of the beginning of the Kronstadt uprising.
Our alternative to Putin is the abolition of the presidency: a statement from Autonomous Action
February 26th: Mass protests in early 2021 show that the authoritarian regime of Putin and his billionaire friends is no longer agreeable with a significant part of Russian society.
Greek Horror: How an Epstein level paedophile scandal could connect to the first time in Greek history that a political prisoner dies of hunger strike
February 23rd: CW: mentions of child sexual abuse.
Movements First, Solutions Later
February 18th: Netpol’s Kevin Blowe argues that Britain’s nascent abolitionist movement needs to focus its energy into long-term grassroots organising, not top-down academic debate.
“Queen’s consent” shows Elizabeth Windsor is just a state-supported mafia boss
February 12th: The Guardian has been running a succession of investigative articles this week into the little known constitutional procedure, Queen’s consent.
True Covid death toll passes 117,000
February 4th: The B.1.1.7 aka 501Y.V1 Kent variant of SARS-CoV-2 has 23 mutations and is at least 70% more transmissible, according to most scientific commentators. By December 20th, it accounted for 60% of Covid cases in London.
‘Healthy and positive’ communities: Facebook and the restriction of political content
February 3rd: Recently Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he and his team are working on stopping political content from circulating within the platform in order, as he puts it, to “make sure that the communities that people connect with are healthy and positive” (advancing the technocratic logic of “blissful” life freed from political deliberation).
