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Green and Black Cross: Extinction Rebellion’s legal support is inadequate
May 14th: In a statement released today the longstanding activist court support group is expressing serious concerns about how senior organisers with Extinct…
A world in waiting
March 25th: “…the weakening of the state, the progressive development of its imperfections, is a social necessity.
Tommy Robinson’s rally showed one thing: He doesn’t care about free speech
February 24th: When two thousand people turned out yesterday to support the far-right media personality’s big show against a State/BBC conspiracy to destroy…
The day I slept in a puddle on Old Compton Street
February 14th: Continuing on from the memories charted in his book Invisible: A Diary of Rough Sleeping in Britain, Andrew Fraser writes a personal note on the le…
Manchester homeless open letter to Andy Burnham: ‘You’re setting us up to fail’
February 12th: Having very efficiently attacked political squatting in the early days of its tenure in 2017-18, Andy Burnham’s administration is currently i…
IWA: Solidarity with Yellow Vests, for a general strike
February 3rd: The anarcho-syndicalist international has published a public call backing a general strike and supporting a statement on the Yellow Vest movement w…
Reflections on the Yiddish Anarchist Movement
January 30th: Following the YIVO conference on Yiddish anarchism which took place on January 20th in New York (video here), Raymond S Solomon puts it in context …
Winter Editorial: Persuasive Pessimism
January 10th: It is a truism to say that we live in interesting and scary times.
Silent givers: How the government manipulates charity
December 18th: A recent furore in Scotland has focused on the Foreign Office playing piggy bank to a small ‘anti-fake news’ charity, but State po…
Don’t abandon your Yellow Jackets
November 23rd: The name sounds a bit like something to do with a lifeguard’s alliance, but this movement’s name (gilets jaune) comes from their high vis jacke…
Why and how Trump is about to get worse than ever
November 9th: I didn’t stay up all night awaiting news of the US mid-term elections but I did take a look at the results when I got up.
Shared Destiny, Common Struggle: Kurds and Turkish-Cypriots
November 3rd: Turkish political, diplomatic and military muscle is a stark reality of the geopolitical map of South-East Europe, Anatolia and the Middle East.
‘Cool girl activism’ and why I’ll no longer stand with groups that include the SWP
October 11th: CW: rape, PTSD, social exclusion We all go through our ‘cool girl’ stage.
Barred from Banksy’s Art World
October 10th: How we all guffawed at Banksy’s jolly japes at Sotheby’s last week.
Class War at the Rees-Mogg Residence – Media and MPs in Hyperbolic Rage
September 13th: One of the things I’ve put a lot of time to thinking about is how Class War can get media coverage and then control it.
