Between Labour’s barefaced militarism and a domesticated peace movement, it falls to anarchists to step up resistance to weapons of mass destruction ~ Ned Skinn’ ~ The patriotic flag-waving and bunting to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day has for now kept our attention away from another upcoming anniversary—that of the dropping of atomic bombs
Oh garçon, I’d like Enoch-was-right Toryism with even more grifting, please. Yes of course I’ll have the side of self-sabotaging incompetence and unhinged shouting at clouds, that’s the flavour right there. ~ Rob Ray ~ Jordan Tarrant-Short, a man in his 30s who has somehow never quite managed to throw off that Young Tory look,
Being tough on fascism is no substitute for giving everyone a stake in society — but don’t expect much class analysis from the government In the immediate aftermath of far-right rioting, the Labour government has come in for praise for how it has handled the situation. The blame has been placed on a mix of
With the end of lockdown and, to all intents and purposes, the end of the Labour Party left, we appear to find ourselves in something of a political grey zone in the Summer of 2022. On the one hand, the Tories have never been less popular and rightfully so. The NHS crisis created by their
When Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, a broad section of leftists saw an opportunity to shift British politics away from neoliberalism. Everyone from anarchists to trade unionists saw the opportunity and knew that the new leadership would need all the support they could get. They needed that support because they would surely
As Corbyn’s suspension from the Labour Party occasions yet another wave of anarcho-smugness, Anna K. takes aim at the strange self-satisfaction of our politically irrelevant movement. On December 13th 2019, the day after the General Election, I had the grave misfortune of being behind the till at Freedom Bookshop. To be clear, my misfortune lay
It may be an odd headline for an anarchist to write about a Labour leader, but hear me out. There’s been a couple of incidents in the last few days which have left people using the dread word to refer to the leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. In the first instance there is his
When I first saw this article from Freedom News about Labour sabotage of Mutual Aid groups I literally screamed “who from our group leaked this!”. I didn’t realise it was a London group who wrote it – that’s how common this issue is. For us locally, it’s awful. Sure, we have 550+ volunteers, do about
When I started this column in 2016 the initial idea was to write a traditional politics column but from an anarchist perspective. I wanted to write an anarchist account of how British politics was developing to keep it charted in a way that hadn’t really been attempted before. I thought at the time that we’d
At the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, I was heartened to see a network of mutual aid groups springing up, mostly autonomously, around the country. There did seem to have been some central impetus behind this. Still, my experience with the few that I started to organise with (I spread my time around a few
Insurance bonds may be dry, but they’re also the closest you’ll get to capitalists’ actual assessment of the problem …
Antifascist in critical condition as father delivers mass petition to German foreign ministry ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu ~ After forty days, Maja T has suspended their hunger strike due to deteriorating health conditions.
A tribute to Maurice Leblanc’s ‘gentleman thief’, an anarchistic cultural icon ~ Maurice Schuhmann ~ On July 15, 1905, the first story featuring the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin was published in the French popular science magazine Je sais tout.
There is increasing evidence that the MAGA cult was always prepared to break the law when it suits them ~ Louis Further ~ Last weekend saw the first major loss of life whose severity was partially caused by the MAGA/Trump/DOGE cuts to public services: over 120 people died at a summer camp in Texas where
The event showed working class solidarity—but also the rising tensions in a Reform-supporting County ~ Tom Brown ~ It was an early start for Durham Miners’ Gala, these islands’ largest gathering of the working class.
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