Freedom

What I love about Luigi

December 13th: This killing, this individual act of war, would mean nothing, and get no support, if it wasn’t a shot fired in a war that was already ongoing ~ M…

Why I’m not clapping for Luigi Mangione

December 12th: Guys like him shoot a CEO one day, and a lot of kids on another—they just hide their personal reasons behind “brutal honesty” ~ Sonia Mu�…

What chances for climate protesters at Court of Appeal?

December 5th: Van Gogh soup protest and M25 blockade among cases in January hearing ~ Andy Meinke ~ In July, when five Just Stop Oil activists were jailed for a …

It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to

November 28th: Assisted suicide should not be illegal – but the living and dying both deserve a better world ~ Ryan Essex ~ The UK Parliament is tomorrow set to…

Notes from the US: Power unchecked

November 14th: What a resurgent MAGA presidency means for policy and resistance ~ Louis Further ~ It is a week since the elections, and our preliminary assessment…

A black woman Tory leader? Sure, as long as she’s batshit right-wing

November 4th: Kemi Badenoch exemplifies the decades-long tradition in the UK of ‘pulling up the ladder’, practiced by class-ascendant immigrants on the right…

Avoiding the ‘peaceful protest’ trap

November 3rd: As the far-right seizes ground, we need energised communities who can resist nationalism ~ Blade Runner ~ On October 26, another Tommy Robinson-led…

Labour’s anti-trans health betrayal

October 30th: Trans people must form coalitions to face a government joining the side of cruelty ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ From the genocide in Gaza to refusing to apo…

Frontex: 20 years of human rights violations

October 25th: The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, which “assists” European countries in “border management, control and security”…

Milkshake Farage is a courtroom crybaby

October 23rd: We’ve really reached a low point when throwing a milkshake at a politician is not only brought to court, but prosecuted as “assault by beating�…

Apocalypse war by proxy

October 11th: The Middle East war joins Ukraine as a permanent site of conflict, the new model for superpower dominance in the age of collapse ~ Blade Runner ~ I…

UK Workers Rights Bill and the spectre of capitalism

October 10th: The latest piece of legislation unveiled by our government emerges not as a beacon of hope, but as a harbinger of betrayal ~ Mark McEwan ~ As the s…

The Death of Leninism

October 10th: I was trapped in Leninism and read swathes of Lenin’s rhetoric – now I know the anarchists were right all along ~ Killian Flynn ~ Amongst t…

Clean energy can’t save us

October 10th: From green consumerism to degrowth and radical systemic change ~  Yavor Tarinski ~ It is a good thing that there is increasingly more talk abo…

How valuable are “British values”?

October 8th: A teacher and philosophical anarchist reflects on schools' imposed language - I have two confessions to make; First, I am part of the state system:…