Obsessing about how many homes are being built is a similar mindset to GDP-gazing – it fails to understand the true nature of the problem
Labour’s housing solution is doomed to fail
Tag: Labour government
Labour’s sweet little lies
From destroying the environment to betraying the disabled, the government is running the same play—will people fall for it? ~ punkacademic ~ There’s the old adage that goes: the first time people show you who they are, believe them. Over a decade ago, Rachel Reeves, today the Chancellor of the Exchequer, then Shadow Work and
Anarchist News Review: Trans rights in court, evictions in Greece and Labour’s latest mess
Andy, Rhiannon, Sam and Simon discuss the UK Supreme Court’s ruling, what it means legally and what it actually means for trans people, as well as the solidarity demonstrations that took place over the weekend. We also look at the legacy of Pope Francis, the evictions in Greece and the Brazilian government’s continued repression of
Welfare cuts: Labour’s political suicide
Or could this all be an undercover anarchist joke to show the system’s bankruptcy ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Cheerily kicking kittens, earnestly pulling wings off flies, making the difficult choice to slam the freezer shut on next door’s puppies: has the government gone mad, we demand to know, but answer comes there none, unless it’s
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 of that, talk about the factors which make the sort of international solidarity of the IWD marches so important, and on the (somewhat related) shameful behaviour of the State as
Anarchist News Review: Labour mirrors Trump and the US gets blunt over geopolitics
Uri Gordon hosts a Freedom discussion on why it is Labour has accelerated its rightwards journey on topics as wideranging as defence, migration and oversight in the wake of chaotic US change. With Rojava, Ukraine and Palestine all seeming to be targets for a new, blunter foreign policy from Trump, geopolitics seems darker than ever,
Freedom News Review 29.10.2024
Items discussed in this program: German antifascist arrests and deportations • Valencia square occupation for decent housing • Lisbon riots after police racist killing • Escalation in Chiapas • UK budget and Labour’s capitalist cult of growth • Tommy Robinson sentencing and the threat of fascist “victimhood”
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Will the ban on Palestine Action terrify enough people into silence?
The proscription is part of a wider push to stifle dissent in an increasingly authoritarian Britain ~ Kevin Blowe ~ The repression of political dissent in Britain has been escalating for years: first against Black Lives Matter and environmental campaigners and now the Palestine solidarity movement.
A protest is a threat
Without the promise of a people near revolt, demonstrations that inconvenience no-one can easily be brushed aside ~ Sourdough ~ On June 14 across the US and several other countries, protests took place under the title of No Kings.
“Let us become beautiful ourselves”: Élisée Reclus on vegetarianism, anarchism, and colonial violence
The great geographer and theorist of anarchist communism was part of a radical milieu that engaged a wide range of social issues, from capitalism and colonialism to free love and animal rights ~ Spencer Beswick ~ In his classic essay “On Vegetarianism” (1901), Élisée Reclus wrote a stirring defense of it as an ethical and
Elisée Reclus: 5 levels of social-ecological practice
His compelling and realistic revolutionary vision shows the preconditions for a liberated world ~ John P Clark ~ Elisée Reclus (1830-1905) was one of the foremost geographers of his age, a major figure in anarchist political thought, and a lifelong revolutionary who played an active role in the Paris Commune and the First International.
Élisée Reclus on anarchy and nature
For the great anarchist geographer, anarchy was at play in every natural relationship grounded in solidarity ~ Fabio Carnevali ~ Reclus was the anarchist who “never commanded anyone, and never will”, as his younger friend Kropotkin said of him, as well as the geographer for whom many important scientists—including Charles Darwin—mobilised when he risked being
