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How the UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management
April 11th: Algorithms, facial recognition, and tightening protest laws signal a deepening surveillance state ~ Blade Runner ~ The UK is expanding its use of predictive policing and surveillance, framing it as a response to crime, protest, and public safety.
Against ‘human nature’
April 4th: To claim selfishness is our affliction ignores the conditions of a system that prioritises greed above all other virtues ~ Sourdough ~ A common refrain posed to anarchists and all those who dream of a better future is that we can not create a better society because of ‘human nature’: we are not good enough
Face masks at protests: If not now, when?
April 2nd: A proposed ban on wearing a face covering at a protest is an enormous challenge to protest organisers and human rights groups ~ Kevin Blowe ~ Labour’s new Policing and Crime Bill, currently under consideration in the House of Commons, has proposed the creation of a new offence of “concealing identity at protests”.
Just Stop Oil: The dead end of symbolic disruption
March 31st: The end of JSO’s actions marks more than a tactical shift, exposing the limits of symbolic resistance in a system built on ecocide ~ Blade Runner ~ Just Stop Oil has announced it is ending its campaign of disruptive action.
Welfare cuts: Labour’s political suicide
March 24th: Or could this all be an undercover anarchist joke to show the system’s bankruptcy ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Cheerily kicking kittens, earnestly pulling wings off flies, making the difficult choice to slam the freezer shut on next door’s puppies: has the government gone mad, we demand to know, but answer comes there none, unless it’s
Anarchism and the New Military Wave (pt.1)
March 23rd: A few thoughts on where we are as we teeter on the cusp of a decade-defining shift into armed nationalism ~ Rob Ray ~ In the deluge of capital-N News we’ve had over the last month, by far the most consequential for our war-distanced isles has been the announcement, Europe-wide, of massive rearmament.
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.
