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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…
Anarchist News Review: Anti-Palantir rebellion in the NHS
April 3rd: ~ Tab, Andy and Simon ponder o’er yonder as NHS staff are in revolt over Palantir’s involvement in the system, while the Palestine soli…
Why do Leninists and capitalists sound the same online?
March 31st: A shared style of argument reveals something deeper about how people relate to ideology, authority, and criticism ~ Slow Burning Fuse ~ Spend enoug…
Book ban in Manchester school: Are we becoming Texas?
March 26th: Without even being told to, the school authorities arbitrarily decided to censor titles like Twilight and 1984 ~ Andrew J Boyer ~ It has been …
Hormuz lays bare our fossil dependency
March 23rd: Food, fuel and pharmaceuticals will all be affected by the blockade ~ Nicholas Beuret ~ By now you’re probably sick of hearing how much oil and …
Sweden’s “prison statecraft” panders to the far right
March 12th: Deal with Estonia to house prisoners shows the dehumanising effects of neoliberal inequality management ~ Daniel Jarosak ~ Last summer, Estonia ag…
Neurodiversity beyond the social model
March 5th: Neurodivergent liberation means changing the foundations, dismantling a system that made our exclusion not just possible but profitable ~ Pablo ~ T…
SEND reforms: Cuts and culture wars
February 25th: Reducing SEND provision is part of a wider fight against the disabled and the young ~ punkacademic ~ Labour’s long-awaited announcement of ‘ref…
The collapse that summons us
February 19th: The imminent crash is not an apocalypse, but a birth laden with immense possibility ~ Liberto Herrera, A.N.A.
