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Five quick thoughts on the limits of Covid-19 mutual aid groups & how they might be overcome.

April 5th: Three weeks ago, I decided to set up a Facebook group to help people look out for one another in my little corner of south east London.

Don’t believe the hype: evictions continue despite moratorium

April 4th: The ban is a lie.

Dissecting Boris Johnson’s letter to the British people

April 1st: The prime minister is writing a letter to every household in the UK to a cost of £6m, at a time when the National Health Service (NHS) is sufferin…

Boris Johnson a ‘libertarian’? What a joke

March 26th: It’s really frustrating when people use anarchist terms and phrases out of context or for their own advantage.

I never want to see the word “COVIDIOT” again

March 24th: A disclaimer first.

Stay at Fucking Home

March 23rd: I have been at home for 12 days.

British prisons are Petri dishes for this pandemic; without immediate action it’s the death penalty by any other name

March 23rd: Carl Cattermole This past Tory decade has left public services looking like a bicycle locked up too long in East London: valuable parts stolen, eve…

Mutual Aid in London: A Cautionary Tale

March 21st: At the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, I was heartened to see a network of mutual aid groups springing up, mostly autonomously, around the country.

Coronavirus is not a natural disaster

March 19th: For those of us of a certain age the empty city streets that have come to characterise the corona virus pandemic tend to elicit a simple question: …

Covid19 exposes the evil nature of conservatism

March 18th: The Tory government has totally mishandled the outbreak of Covid 19.

To the MAN: Zero evictions call-out!

March 17th: The mutual aid networks are in a unique position to defend the homes - and the lives - of those facing eviction during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Give ‘Em Enough Rope

March 15th: A (Late) Valentine to Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson by Joe Reynolds.

The editor is on strike today. Here are some of the reasons why.

March 8th: As I’m writing this text on Friday evening (rather than on the day of its publication in order not to break the Women’s Strike cyber pi…

Climate change, displacement and Australia’s punitive immigration system

March 1st: In Australia, deadly fires have been devastating the country since September 2019.

The anti-NGO discourse in Greece and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

February 11th: These days in Greece an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory has successfully infiltrated the public discourse.