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A wall of electronic eyes replacing human feeling
December 21st: We’re caught in a lose-lose situation in the modern media world: refusal lessens our reach, engaging sets us up as targets ~ Rob Ray ~ A couple o…
Governed by Death-eaters
December 19th: One day there will be a reckoning — but it won’t be a white boy with a wand and a scar ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ This is a government of death.
21st-century anarchism
December 17th: Evolving our response to climate crisis, militarisation, and digital transformation ~ Salvo Vaccaro, Umanità Nova ~ Not possessing prophetic visio…
It’s the end of cinema as we know it… and I feel fine
December 15th: Far from being a tragedy, the demise of the film industry should be celebrated ~ Andrew J Boyer ~ Netflix has proposed an $82.7bn (£62bn) deal to …
Spycops inquiry update: Victims’ needs are last in line
December 14th: The UCPI speaks of taking a trauma-based approach, but its actions are constantly squeezing those who were spied upon ~ Donal O’Driscoll, Underco…
In AIDS activism, silence (still) equals death
December 13th: While ACT UP’s political work becomes institutionalised and memorialised, the myth persists that HIV no longer kills ~ Chrys Papaioannou ~ As the…
Anarchism: Last hope for the Environment
December 11th: Against a state that will never resolve climate chaos, and its violence which force cannot overthrow today, what remains for environmentalists?
Hillsborough: Police condemned, but no justice
December 3rd: The state will permit a version of the truth to emerge—only once it’s too late for consequences ~ punkacademic ~ The Independent Office…
Freedom winter 2025-6: Watched, databased, yet to be controlled
December 1st: Editorial from our new journal issue on Surveillance exploring states’ ambitions to constrain and refuse our freedom – and ways to fight ba…
Labour rolls out the full fash playlist
November 19th: Far-right glee tells you all you need to know about the government’s asylum plans ~ punkacademic ~ Plans announced by the Home Secretary Shabana …
BBC’s “War on Woke” was never enough for the right
November 10th: Resignations over ‘left-wing bias’ are both bitterly amusing and a dangerous portent of where the state broadcaster is headed ~ punkac…
No Gods, No Mayors
November 6th: Putting “socialist faces in high places” does not break the cycle of violence and injustice ~ Yavor Tarinski ~ For the city of New York…
Free speech on campus? Only for racists and transphobes
November 4th: As ten Leicester students are convicted for protesting the University’s complicity in the arms trade, the silence of the right’s supposed ‘de…
Red card for reality
October 21st: The government and media are pretending to support the Jewish community—by obeying the far right ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Maccabi Tel Aviv fans …
Keeping a community afloat
October 15th: We need to completely rethink our cities’ relationship with water ~ Isaac Bell Holmstrom ~ Recent analysis shows that extreme flood likelihoo…
