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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 …
The anti-militarism of fools
September 2nd: How Western leftists and anarchists found ‘convenient’ voices from Eastern Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Debates on anti-militarism continu…
Anarchists have teeth—do anarchist collectives?
September 1st: Building collective power reduces pressure on individuals and makes us less dependent on charismatic personalities ~ Nora Ziegler ~ Originally publ…
Today’s seeds are tomorrow’s future
August 31st: Things could be, should be, and must be better—but what kind of power do we want?
The space between us: Parenting and the generation gap
August 29th: I am not the parent I thought I’d be, but revolutions rarely unfold as we predict
Anarchist News Review: Racists are cross and politicians are licking jackboot
August 28th: Andy, Sam and Simon take a slightly longer look at the far-right protests which have dominated silly season’s news agenda, along with the rea…
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Revolution
August 26th: The history of hitchhiking shows the social value of sharing the road with strangers and friends alike ~ Jonathan Purkis ~ Originally published 16 …
Contrarians in a time of right hegemony
August 23rd: For comics who define themselves as rattling status quo cages the rapid reversal of social liberalism presents some challenges ~ Rob Ray ~ For many…
