Who are the Rats? Well, they’re the people who do nothing about anything, who accept the atom bomb and want the cat back, the civil servants with closed minds and politicians who believe in armaments, all the forms of authority and persuasion which want people to conform into a mass, and all the people who
THE LEAST EXPERIENCE OF PRISONS teaches you that they’re criminal universities for prisoners; they morally corrupt all law-enforcement officers; they make criminal the societies they’re intended to ‘protect’. Like every human creature I have ever met or heard of, I am in part evil. Between the convicted and the unconvicted, the only differences I can
WHEN AUGUSTUS JOHN DIED at the age of 83 on October 31st 1961, the newspapers were full of such adjectives as “boisterous, blustering, brilliant” (Daily Herald) and “robust, swashbuckling, romantic” (The Times). Those who saw him as a grave and courteous old gentleman, who, though he was the finest draughtsman this country has produced, was
This piece by Colin Ward is the text of a paper read to the anti-war Committee of 100 seminar at Kensington Central Library on November 20th, 1961. The seminar is a pilot course for the Committee’s “Schools for Non-violence.” THE COMMITTEE OF 100, in convening this series of meetings and in linking the current protests
Parker Hannifin is a supplier to Leonardo and other major weapons companies ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Palestine Action Scotland says it targeted the offices of military parts manufacturer Parker Hannifin at its Glasgow production facility on Sunday night, damaging the building and covering it in red paint.
Famous for his philosophical anarchism, he was also a champion of Black liberation and anti-war movements ~ James Birmingham ~ Philosopher and professor of Afro-American studies Robert Paul Wolff passed away at the age of 91 on January 6, 2025.
The beginning of 1945 was a turbulent time for Freedom Press, along with anarchism in Britain and western Europe ~ Rob Ray ~ While the Germans were mounting their last, doomed offensive, the outcome of World War II was already no longer in doubt.
Agents of chaos and agents of the automaton in the horizon of mutation ~ Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi ~ A South African racist named Elon Musk, whom newspapers call the richest man in the world, recently earned another, more interesting, nickname: “an agent of chaos”, the Guardian called him on December 20, echoing a definition that
120 years after her death, the hero of the Paris Commune continues to inspire ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ In the Hôtel Oasis in Marseille, the French anarchist, feminist, and Communard Louise Michel passed away on January 9, 1905.
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