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Anarchist News Review: Cheap AI panic, Extremism (un)defined and Liberal ineffectualism

Anarchist News Review: Cheap AI panic, Extremism (un)defined and Liberal ineffectualism

A winding discussion starts with China’s Deepseek and its impact on US dominance in the sphere of artificial intelligence. We then move on to Belarus, the Hungarian pursuit of anti-fascists, and the ineffectiveness of liberal governments in holding back fascism (again) before rounding off with some discussion on the fight against high speed rail in

Chinese state persecutes Marxists

Chinese state persecutes Marxists

Some quite ironic news from China. In the past few months, the Chinese state has persecuted and effectively criminalized at least two Marxist reading groups at universities in the cities of Nanjing and Guangzhou. In November 2017, police raided a Marxist reading group at the Guangdong University of Technology and arrested its six members. Of

An Anarchist in Love with Mao’s China – Herbert Read’s ‘Letters from China’.

An Anarchist in Love with Mao’s China – Herbert Read’s ‘Letters from China’.

Plus a list of dubious accounts of ‘successful’ revolutions, from Russia to Rojava In the second year of the Great Leap Forward famine – in which perhaps 30 million died – Herbert Read visited China on an official delegation. Read’s acceptance of a knighthood for his literary achievements had already discredited him amongst many anarchists.