The Chicago Surrealist Franklin Rosemont tapped the subversive energy of popular culture ~ Ryan Bunnell ~ Since its inception, Surrealism has been attractive to anarchists.
Book review: Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues
Tag: Art & Anarchy
Peter Kennard: “My art erupts from outrage”
Now on show at Whitechapel Gallery, his work since the 1970s includes some of Britain’s most iconic images of resistance ~ Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan ~ Since the 1970s, Peter Kennard has produced some of Britain’s most iconic and influential images of resistance and dissent.
Museum of Neoliberalism closes as building knocked down for luxury flats
The anti-capitalist tourist attraction played with the perceived factual authority of a museum ~ Gavin Grindon ~ After five years as Lewisham’s premier anti-capitalist tourist attraction, the Museum of Neoliberalism closed its doors for the final time on 15th Sept, as the building is being sold to a developer.
“We were disruptors, creativity was our action and rebellion”
The Grey Organisation’s escapades in Thatcherite Britain let the radical underground bleed over into the art world
Review: Good Times In Dystopia
Good Times in Dystopia George F Zero Books, 2020 ISBN: 9781789041902 Review by Peter Bearder Featured Image by oneslutriot Additional artwork by Junk Comix The literary output of squats, occupations and other autonomous spaces is vanishingly small.
Get Shit Done: the future is collaborative
Unless it can be used for marketing, ‘bread and circuses’ entertainment, or to create commodities for the rich, the innate creativity of human beings is actively discouraged by the powers that be (a situation which, I believe, lies at the bedrock of a lot of modern day neurosis).
The Doncaster Heads. From the Perspective of One of the Heads.
In 2017 a famous artist called Laurence Edwards was commissioned to create an artwork dedicated to the miners’ and their families in Doncaster. This was a well-intentioned project set-out by our local Mayor Ros Jones, whose own family worked in coal mining.
Time for artists’ Mutual Aid?
The following is the first text contributed to Freedom’s new Art & Anarchy column.
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Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
Facing down the flagshaggers
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
London arms fair disruption: A stark contrast to mass arrests for Palestine
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
Anarchist prisoner released from Belarus
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
France blockades: The leaderless escalate
Yesterday’s day of action saw Bloquons Tout stepping out of the shadows nationwide—and facing major police repression ~ punkacademic ~ Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France on Wednesday (10 September) as the first day of action organised under the banner Bloquons Tout (“Block Everything”) saw widespread protests and blockades in defence
