UK Supreme Court muddies the waters on deprivation of liberty, as safeguards are stripped away ~ punkacademic ~ The Supreme Court last week ruled o…
No consent to confinement
Tag: Disability
Neurodiversity beyond the social model
Neurodivergent liberation means changing the foundations, dismantling a system that made our exclusion not just possible but profitable ~ Pablo ~ T…
SEND reforms: Cuts and culture wars
Reducing SEND provision is part of a wider fight against the disabled and the young ~ punkacademic ~ Labour’s long-awaited announcement of ‘ref…
No more ‘good disabled’ guff
The government’s proposed cuts to disability benefits will ruin lives if they are not fought ~ Fingers Malone ~ Their focus is on making it harde…
Assisted Dying Bill: The neoliberal politics of death
The Assisted Dying Bill cleared the House of Commons in the same week the government confirmed its commitment to slashing financial support for dis…
Anarchist News Review: Anti-fascist crackdown, Stock market falls, new BDS and predicting murder
“There’s a strong tradition of far-right activism in universities, anti-fascists have been trying to combat that and they’ve been…
Anarchist News Review: Spycops victims, IWD and protest sentencing results
It’s was inevitable that Starmerite Labour would come for welfare in a vain attempt to look tough on the poor ~ We discuss the implications o…
Disappearing COVID’s victims
Long COVID patients suffer from the same societal attitudes that affect many people with invisible and fluctuating disabilities ~ Fingers Malone ~ …
Where are the crip Utopias?
Crips are excluded on the sole basis that they cannot conform to the ableist ideal of an activist
Disability cuts: Work isn’t the pull Sunak thinks it is
The recent welfare reform plans announced by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have landed badly, and rightly so.
Disability and autonomy
Andy Greene of Disabled People Against Cuts writes on the ways in which anarchist and disabled interests and actions dovetail in the face of State …
The exploitation of mental health advocacy during the pandemic: a retrospective
There seems to be a fairly obvious hole in mental health advocacy and awareness.
Notes from the US: Oil and the law
Freedom Columnist Louis Further rounds up some lesser-known happenings on the other side of the Atlantic.
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No consent to confinement
UK Supreme Court muddies the waters on deprivation of liberty, as safeguards are stripped away ~ punkacademic ~ The Supreme Court last week ruled o…
Anarchist News Review: Belfast pogroms and World Cup corruption
Jack and Mike discuss some of the worst racist violence in recent Northern Irish history, looking at the factors behind it, both historic loyalist …
Abolish AI – before it abolishes us
Evidence of the existential threat posed to humanity by artificial intelligence accrues day by day ~ Bill Weinberg ~ The United Nations on 4 June i…
Israeli academia “under command”
Report exposes Israeli higher education’s collaboration with military and arms manufacturers ~ Nissi Peli ~ Israel’s deliberate and thoroug…
Revolt in Albania: Besa and Flamingos
An ancient obligation to protect is animating the mass protests against the Jared Kushner’s destructive resort ~ Joel Sucher ~ I’ve said it…
