True change won’t come from the ballot but from sustained, people-powered movements ~ Andrew J Boyer ~ Two recent developments have jolted voters…
Hopeful highs and electoral lows
Tag: democracy
Walney report: “Democracy” without dissent
Government’s adviser on “political violence and disruption” demonstrates how the British state machinery perceives the left in general and anar…
Cities of Hubris
This book is an urgent call for change of perspective, a perspective that puts people armed with radical imagination in charge of creating new citi…
Shut Carlow Street: We’ll run our own union
UCU activist Jose Collina reflects this year’s universities pensions strike, won and lost.
Anti-democratic values: Making the case for consensus
In this essay written for the June C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium, Derek Wittorff argues that the left’s focus on democracy and a falling o…
The Second Greatest Lie: An Anarchist Critique Of Democracy
In the United States it is coming up to the midterm elections. Tis the season we register to vote!
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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…
