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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…
Field of Nightmares: The never-ending expansion of torture units in England
October 10th: The Close Supervision Centre (CSC) is part of a system that requires endlessly greater punishment and resources to discipline prisoners facing degr…
Finland: Struggles against the right-wing government
October 8th: Two years of anti-government protests raise questions about organising around collective struggles ~ Antti Rautiainen ~ The current government of F…
Incompetence and corruption cause England’s torture units to degrade further
October 3rd: Prison bosses incessantly argue for harsher conditions—then cry over the lack of safe systems of work ~ Kevan Thakrar ~ On Saturday, 12 April…
The reality of the prison expansion project
September 26th: With a budget of over £4 billion, prison building is currently the government’s second-largest expenditure program ~ Kevan Thakrar ~ As pris…
Liberty is a muscle, it must be exercised
September 22nd: In its quest to outflank Reform to the right, Labour has not just continued the 2020s Tory assault on protest and left-wing dissent, but deepened i…
Confessions of a Communard: The rocky road to collective change
September 19th: Tensions between individual and collective needs have practical solutions—our neoliberal conditioning is harder to overcome ~ Warren Draper ~…
Proscription Action: It’s magnificent, but it’s not war
September 9th: Arrests outside Parliament risk centring liberal freedoms instead of Palestinian survival ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ Its 9pm, last Saturday (6 September).
Farts, flags, and the melting black blob of UK politics
September 8th: While Starmer flashes his moral void and Farage gets a BBC fluff job, the people carry on fighting ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ For UK comedy, these days …
