The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked widespread economic difficulty and societal issues, forcing States across the globe to act in accordance.
The fragility of the system
Tag: Capitalism
Why are today’s Profiteers so insistent on the making of a profit?
Profitism: ‘The need to feel eternal in sensation is essential to our existence.
Book review: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things Raj Patel and Jason W.
Hundreds to protest against outsourcing at University of London
Hundreds of people are expected to protest today at the University of London’s Senate House demanding an end to outsourcing of Uni’s essential staff. The protest is organised by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain’s (IWGB): the biggest union at the University of London’s central administration buildings.
Mugabe: The Old Man and the Coup
Shawn Hattingh looks at the fall of Robert Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe, arguing this will not bring liberation as it doesn’t confront an entrenched ruling state, capital and imperial elite.
No Reforming Earth Destruction
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
Only working-class self-organisation will kill the housing bill
With the Housing Bill about to come into effect, conditions are looking bleak for the working class.
MPs Are Scared. So They Should Be!
The recent report into violence and aggression shown towards MPs reveals an astonishing lack of awareness amongst our elected representatives when it comes to the effects of their policies.
Squatters occupy former Royal Mint building in Tower Hill
Yesterday squatters occupied a former Royal Mint building in Tower Hill in protest against homelessness, empty buildings and the ongoing criminalisation of squatting.
Walks For Motorists – An Interview with WHITE HILLS
I’m sure you have noticed that in late capitalism much of mainstream culture, including music, is the tarted up results of market forces and the commodification of all things, it cannot help but be bereft of meaning and over arching purpose, it has nothing much to say and no idea where it is going; it
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Confessions of a Communard: The rocky road to collective change
Tensions between individual and collective needs have practical solutions—our neoliberal conditioning is harder to overcome ~ Warren Draper ~ Compromise is something we have struggled with at A Commune in the North (ACitN); it is a hard truth that, while we are in this pioneering phase and still small in number, the direction and wider
Notes from the US: Surplus population
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.
Anarchist News Review: The UK far-right cosplays the US, as Trump comes to town
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,
Book review: Desire and Fate
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.
London Anarchist Bookfair 2025: The workshops list
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
