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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.

Freedom seeks contributions to “Black Anarchism” issue

February 18th: We invite essays and reflections, reports on actions and campaigns, personal accounts, and other non-fiction writing The image of a black fighter i…

The ‘terrorism’ trap

February 18th: Governments are gearing up to define any popular protest as violent and legitimise institutional repression ~ Tiziano Antonelli, Umanità Nova ~ Th…

Notes from the US: Deliberately abusive

February 17th: The MAGA/Trump cult’s embrace of white supremacism becomes more blatant almost daily ~ Louis Further ~ Narratives on the vaguely-left-leaning…

Dining with the Devil

February 12th: Even if Chomsky knew nothing of Epstein’s sex crimes, being chummy with arch-fascist Steve Bannon is unforgivable ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ What wa…

When anti-imperialism is not intersectional

February 11th: As activist bubbles expand, resistance to all oppression is no longer taken for granted by international solidarity groups ~ Alex Cuzzolino ~ Prote…

The corpse machine cohort

February 10th: Mandelson and his friends are the actual political cabal: Elites trading secrets for power as the world burns ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ A surprising fe…

Partyvism

January 30th: Solidarity begins where we acknowledge that our withdrawal and escapism has consequences for others ~ Lola, Barrikade ~ Partyvism is not a music ge…

Ukraine: Big Brother in a warzone

January 25th: The conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza have been highly technological, pushing surveillance to new heights ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ As the first bullets fly a…

Becoming accomplices against ICE

January 22nd: White supremacy may be an American tradition — but grassroots resistance is growing ~ Dana Williams ~ Although I no longer live there, I cont…