The usual media suspects regard Starmer’s charm offensive on Trump as brilliant 3D chess—they’ve been saying that for 80 years ~ punkacademic ~ Feudalism is back in fashion again: although professional historians have their doubts about how real that concept was in the past, it feels pretty real right now, as Keir Starmer’s liege lord arrived in
To claim selfishness is our affliction ignores the conditions of a system that prioritises greed above all other virtues ~ Sourdough ~ A common refrain posed to anarchists and all those who dream of a better future is that we can not create a better society because of ‘human nature’: we are not good enough
Bound to capitalism and electoralism, the statist left has nothing to offer during a period of crisis and restructuring — leaving the field to the fascists ~ Blade Runner ~ Over the past decade, we’ve witnessed the resurgence of a familiar historical pattern, with segments of the working class and poorer communities increasingly turning to
When we make every problem about the unassailable system, we give it too much credit.
There’s a certain pathology, an attitude characteristic of capitalist politics with a distinctly British flavour.
Liberation is what we make of it.
We are all victims of the performance review.
This story is so utterly ridiculous that when we heard it yesterday we all initially thought it was an April Fools. Freedom Press has, admittedly, got an interesting sort of history and some nice old-timey aesthetics – we’ve been around for a long time after all, selling anarchist books and newspapers.
Mayday is the workers’ day and thus this is written on a Friday, scheduled via automaton.
Thousands gathered in Athens last Monday (04.05), to protest the new anti-environmental bill, which the ruling right-wing New Democracy party made everything in its power to prepare and pass during the pandemic, with the hope of avoiding social turmoil.
Now it’s bare-faced fascism—but doctors are putting up more resistance than Democrats ~ Louis Further ~ As wildfires aggravated by climate collapse swept through the Pacific Northwest, last month a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operatives turned up at the site of the ‘Bear Gulch’ blaze in Washington state.
Just days after sacking one Epstein pal, Starmer is welcoming another to hang out with the King and preen in castles—while arresting embarrassing critics ~ Andy and Simon consider an extremely newsey week, from Tommy Robinson’s biggest-ever march and Keir Starmer’s hebdomadis horribilis, to Trump’s chaotic (and ill-timed) UK visit, the fallout from Charlie Kirk,
Instead of a coherent critique of woke culture, we get a confused, grudge-laden screed that fails to balance the left’s internal contradictions with any meaningful analysis ~ John Henri Nolette ~ As a semi-sympathetic critic of both “woke” and “anti-woke” narratives, I had high hopes for this book.
Kae Tempest, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and Peter Gelderloos will be among the performers and speakers at this year’s big anarchist get-together ~ Freedom News ~ With the bookfair nearly upon us—this Saturday 20 September— Freedom threw a few messages at the organisers, who have kindly gotten back to us with the workshops schedule, fresh off
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
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