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Why covering your face at a protest is the right thing to do

March 4th: Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) co-ordinator Kevin Blowe explains why the organisation encourages activists to mask up.

Cressida Dick’s appointment as Met Commissioner is impunity at its worst

February 24th: In this comment article the Network for Police Monitoring argues that the appointment of Cressida Dick, the officer who oversaw the killing of Jea…

Suicide rates soar as mental health funding falls

February 8th: January saw Theresa May launch her vision of a “shared society” with a focus on mental health and reducing the stigma attached to it.

The Class War Newspaper is Back!

February 7th: For this edition of his monthly column Jon Bigger writes on what’s happening with the forthcoming relaunch of notorious anarchist paper Clas…

Greece: Anarchists call for solidarity as deaths mount at refugee camps

February 5th: In this statement originally posted to the website of anarcho-syndicalist organisation Rocinante on February 2nd, the Greek group is calling for …

Hamburg G20: Stop them crawling back to the city

January 30th: There is more than one way to resist the industrial capitalist system.

Tories’ Trident cover-up

January 25th: In the last 48 hours it’s emerged that Theresa May has continued the Conservative party tradition of cover-up and lying in relation to nuclea…

Crisis within Crisis, Zimbabwe: As we manufacture our own oppression

January 23rd: In this article originally written for South African anarchist group Zabalaza Anarchist Communist  Front (ZACF), Leroy Maisiri talks about his ex…

Protests as Irish Housing Minister betrays squat deal

January 11th: Protests were held across Ireland against Housing Minister Simon Coveney today after he backed out of pledges to provide accommodation for Dublin…

A Radical 2017 – All We Need To Do Is Join In

January 7th: Jon Bigger writes on direct and effective alternatives to the opportunism and whining of the liberal left  Since the Brexit and Trump results one…

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Reclaim the Power: Cuadrilla’s assumption of victory is sheer arrogance

January 6th: Among the many attempted fracking projects being pushed forward in Britain this year, Preston New Road has been a site of particularly strong resis…

Turkey: Meydan anarchists — ‘we are being cornered’

January 5th: Late last month the editor of Meydan anarchist newspaper in Istanbul was sentenced to a year and three months in prison for “supporting terr…

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Notes from the US

December 18th: Louis Further’s regular roundup column with analysis and news from North America that you might have missed.

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Anarchy in the UK: A Changed Political Landscape

December 7th: This article is the first in a series by Jon Bigger looking at gains the voices of social conservatism have made in recent years and what that mea…

Anarchism and the Italian referendum

December 4th: The statement below by the Sicilian Anarchist Federation (original Italian version here) addresses the referendum on changes to the national consti…