This text first appeared in the newly released Class War magazine.
Get Boris done in

This text first appeared in the newly released Class War magazine.
Between the first two spikes of the Covid 19 pandemic, Boris Johnson’s true colours have started to appear.
“That’s just your perception” is a phrase I heard a lot as a trade union activist.
Being ideologically opposed to government, or the very least top-down imposed upon us government, we can sometimes just criticise government action on that ideological line.
We’ve finally gotten to the end of a road which has been decades in the making, in which politicians have slowly realised something that the direct action left has known for a very long time — noise is not a threat.
When I started this column in 2016 the initial idea was to write a traditional politics column but from an anarchist perspective.
The prime minister is writing a letter to every household in the UK to a cost of £6m, at a time when the National Health Service (NHS) is suffering under the strains of Covid19 cases.
It’s really frustrating when people use anarchist terms and phrases out of context or for their own advantage.
A protest outside Downing Street against the newly-elected Prime Minister last night saw a bit of edge that has been sorely lacking in recent years, say our people on the ground.
There will be anarchists that avoid the election and anarchists who soak it all up.