Features
The lie of a bloodthirsty empire
December 5th: Political artists Andrei Molodkin and Santiago Sierra, and Wikileaks ambassador Joseph Farrell, talk to A/POLITICAL about the sham of Western liberty, Julian Assange, and how art can still transform pain into defiance ~ Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan ~ The heightened tensions of international politics are reflected in the work of Andrei Molodkin (Russia, 1966) and Santiago Sierra
Newport Radical Bookfair revived
November 28th: Stalls attract locals and visitors during Chartist Uprising celebrations ~ Shaun Featherstone ~ Earlier this month the first radical bookfair Newport has seen for many years took place.
Still worth fighting: Nicolas Walter remembered
November 22nd: The great anarchist historian and activist left us a message for these dire times ~ Natasha Walter ~ How do we keep hope and faith alive?
John Prescott: The Blairite bulldog who forgot the working class
November 21st: The former Deputy Prime Minister weaponised his northern roots and trade union affiliations to enable neoliberal Labour and its wars ~ Uri Gordon ~ John Prescott, the plainspoken northern bruiser who riled upper-class Tories while loyally advancing the New Labour project, has died.
Book Review: Safety Through Solidarity
November 21st: Burley and Lorber’s project is both honourable and necessary, but why do they let Marxist antisemitism off the hook?
Radical Reprint: Conflict and class struggle
November 17th: The anarchist split over the Great War (WW1) burst into print in November 1914, with grave consequences ~ Rob Ray ~ One of the most famous articles Freedom ever carried, at least in historical terms, was a piece by Errico Malatesta, that titan of the Italian anarchist movement, entitled ‘Anarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles‘, in
The ruptures of militant anarchism in Brazil
November 15th: “Where we come from and where we are going”: a reflection on Brazilian anarchism, then and now ~ from O Amigo do Povo ~ Brazilian anarchism lost influence over the masses with the decline and later, the end of revolutionary syndicalism in Brazil between the 1920s and 1930s.
Book review: Zerox Machine
November 5th: An absolute triumph of punk scholarship and alternative historiography ~ Jim Donaghey ~ Reading through this richly detailed overview of punk zines from the late 1970s and the 1980s, you can feel the effort that Matt Worley has poured into this.
Education and autonomy in times of ecological collapse
October 27th: Zapatista education promotes a relationship with knowledge based on the needs and questions of students and communities ~ Ana Paula Morel, from Teia Dos Povos ~ In the corn fields of the Lacandon Jungle in Mexico, it used to take three months to harvest; however, with the ecological catastrophe caused by the “capitalist hydra”, the
A cautionary tale from my Russian anarchist great-grandfather
October 22nd: On the danger of sacrificing principle for pragmatism ~ George Askaroff ~ When faced with substantial external pressure and uncertainty, principles of liberty are often sacrificed in the name of ‘pragmatism’.
