Community activist groups can be a significant force in local politics, as experiences in both Haringey and Tower Hamlets show.
Solidarity at the doorstep
Tag: community organising
They started the revolution without you… but you are welcome to join in
Easter weekend I was transported to a vision of the future.
Haringey Solidarity Group: A Celebration of 30 years of radical ideas and campaigning in Haringey and beyond
May 11th 2021 was the 30th anniversary of the Haringey Solidarity Group in North London.
Northumberland: Alnwick Community Larder forced to close following ‘vandalism’ allegation
Alnwick is a town of around 8,000 people in north Northumberland.
Crops NOT Shops: Growing the Mutual Millennium
Last month I suggested that there was good reason to believe that we were witnessing the birth of the ‘mutual millennium’.
Save Sinjajevina: Herders and activists protect unique Montenegrin pastures from military occupation
After a mobile blockade lasting almost two months, a small group of traditional herders and activists has successfully repelled NATO and the Monten…
Don’t despair, organise!: Affinity Collective
Immense urban belts are encroaching unrelentingly on the countryside, replacing flora and fauna with concrete, metal and glass, and enveloping larg…
Poland: Anarchists successfully stop allotment gardens eviction
Anarchists from Rozbrat squat in Poznań, together with other groups, have successfully stopped the eviction of neighbouring allotment gardens R…
Shunning Treesponsibility: South Yorkshire still a dangerous place… if you’re a tree!
Learning absolutely nothing from the 8-year-long Sheffield Tree Felling Protests, South Yorkshire’s Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council (D…
From Mutual Aid to Food Co-ops
It has been almost a year since Cooperation Town came into being.
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France revolts – but to what end?
The alliance of unions which called the 18 September strikes has issued an ultimatum—but Bloquons Tout want more than concessions ~ punkacade…
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 ~…
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 clim…
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 embarras…
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 contradictio…
