As action erupts against ICE raids, the MAGA cult moves on with its legislative onslaught ~ Louis Further ~ What you see in reporting on protests against arbitrary and sadistic raids on non-White families—first in Los Angeles and increasingly in other cities across the US—is by and large what you get on the ground. Just
It’s been a big week for UK protest politics ~ The government move to ban face masks at protests not just on request but automatically, and with arrest enabled even of people who attend and need to mask for health reasons. Campaign group Youth Demand meanwhile have been hit with raids and arrests for calling
With agri-businesses up in arms about the removal of a 2031 cutoff for rights of way registration, why not ditch the idea and embrace the right to roam ~ Rob Ray ~ My dad’s just pulled on his boots and donned his favoured winter flat cap, ready to take Dolly the dog for a quick
Under Moroccan occupation, renewables projects are being used to reinforce dominance ~ Tommaso Marconi ~ While renewable energy is seen as part of the solution to many environmental issues we are facing, it is also used as a pretext by capitalist lobbies and occupying states to overcome territorial sovereignty and implement privatisation. The case of
After violent police evictions, the few trees still standing in the way of the controversial road have been cut down ~ Zandra Russel ~ On Monday the 7th of October 2024 the last ‘squirrels’ left their trees named Zineb and Noguerre under pressure from the cops; now the struggle against the A69 motorway in southwest
Against mass tourism, pollution and capitalism, piracy is never over ~ from Contre Attaque ~ On Saturday, September 21, 12 kayaks blocked access to the port of Marseille; three cruise ships and a ferry were blocked for hours by the flotilla, off the southern French coast. Around 7am, the AIDAstella ship had to turn around,
Instead of “green space” we must build ecosystems in our cities ~ Mathieu Perchat, from Le Mouton Noir ~ Vegetation in the city, often reduced to the term “green space”, evokes a more complex reality than that of a simple place of rest or walk. The term itself, “green space”, expresses the limitation of this
As of September 1st construction firm NGE, which is building the hugely controversial A69 motorway, can legally start cutting down the last few trees that stand in the way of the massive project, which is being built in between Toulouse and Castres in the south-west France. Police had proceeded with the expulsion of people on
Capital is tearing at its seams and new insurrectional and revolutionary waves are emerging; it is now that anarchism can find a powerful ally in certain sectors of degrowth
Women’s cycling campaigners, local business owners, councillors, cyclists, and cycling instructors across London have signed an open letter calling for Sadiq Khan to immediately cancel proposed 100% cuts to in-person cycling training. Amidst the cost of living crisis, the proposed cuts would mean an end to cycling instructors’ main source of income. Cycling instructors also
It’s back, it has another excuse, and it’s still an extraordinarily bad idea ~ Rob Ray ~ In a very specific, eye-rolling-and-muttering-obscenities sort of way, there’s something almost comforting about the reliability of the civil service (usually backed up by Tony Blair because the guy just.
Air base linked to UK and US complicity with Israeli genocide in Gaza ~ Stanton Cree ~ Palestine Action say its activists entered RAF Brize Norton, the largest air force base in Britain, and damaged two Airbus Voyager military planes.
Even more predictable than the rise of fascism around the globe has been its sharp descent into infighting and bickering ~ Sourdough ~ The coalitions that had propelled the far right resurgence have begun to break down.
The slippage from containing WMDs to calls for regime change rings all too familiar — but wars’ main function is still to preserve regimes ~ Simon, Andy and Uri discuss this weeks headlines, including the scorching weather, the mountain-to-molehill cheapening of terrorism charges, direct action in Germany, and ruling-class realignment in Britain and the USA
Amazon targeted for complicity in Israel’s Gaza genocide, Telekom for cooperation with the German military and Elon Musk’s Starlink—communiqé ~ Juju Alerta ~ An anti-militarist group has claimed responsibility for setting fire to a total of 35 commercial vehicles from Amazon and Deutsche Telekom in Berlin in the early hours of Tuesday.
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