It’s not fun to weigh in today amid the sadness of watching a triumphant, smug parade of Tory scumbags mouthing off about how they intend to stick it to the poor this time — but we can’t sit still when the new class war is on its way. The reasons why Labour lost are going
There will be anarchists that avoid the election and anarchists who soak it all up. There’ll be anarchists who don’t vote and anarchist that do. For anarchists who want to stay up all night and boo the establishment, Jon Bigger has a handy guide for things to watch out for. This election feels like it
I have consistently gone to every single Ende Gelände action in Germany. In fact I am the only person from the UK who has gone to every one of the seven large mass direct actions against coal in the country. The last one happened on Saturday the 30th of November in the East of Germany
Following a question posed by Labour supporters about anarchist responses to the policy proposals of what became the Attlee Labour government, below we reproduce Freedom’s front page article from June 2nd 1945. Vote – What For? At last, after a decade during which a parliament elected to maintain peace has fought the bloodiest war in
Since 2001 around 100 people have been killed by terrorists in the UK. Since the Tories came to power in 2010 their austerity regime has resulted in at least 130,000 preventable deaths according to reports.
Over the last few weeks ‘moderate’ Tories have been stepping down from standing as candidates for parliament. Over a longer time span, ‘moderate’ Labour politicians have been leaving the party and refusing to stand again. The perceived wisdom is that our politics is swinging to gradients of left and right not witnessed for many decades
As mentioned in a recent column and throughout Brexit, the divisions in the UK on membership of the European Union is a Conservative Party issue that the public was invited to get itself embroiled in. The public obliged but in doing so many people voted in such a way to cause the maximum damage to
If there’s a general election in 2019 I’m starting to feel really uneasy about it. A few months ago I felt as though it might transpire that the Tories would do very badly in such a scenario. Well, they still might but the UK remains in the grip of conservative forces with the rise of
The Autumn of 2015 and the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader was as much of an earthquake for the anarchists as it was for what is now known as the “centrist tinge” of party politics. As a movement, we had benefited somewhat from the years of Blair, Brown and Miliband. Our street
In March 2018 a worker employed in Child Protection for Bristol City Council (BCC) was suspended from his post. He was charged with issues under the code of conduct, and most of the first set of allegations against him related to a closed Labour Party Facebook page. The group are made up of labour activists,
If it weren't so disturbing, you might want to amuse yourself with the reaction of the right in the United States to current events.
They are demanding an end to the Ministry of Defence's contracts with Israel's largest weapons firm, Elbit Systems and an end to all future licensing and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK
The circled A was invented in Paris in 1964 and reinvented in Milan in 1966
Peter Seyferth reports on his experience combating "horseshoe theory" on the German talk show 13 Fragen (“13 questions”).
Innocent Gazans face torture and death in Israeli detention camps.
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