Perhaps an anti-Labour sentiment is no surprise coming from an anarchist opinion column, but my atheism, this shower of spineless rejects from centrist central casting have had no compunction at all in sucking up to the newly-installed Imperial Orange ~ Rob Ray ~ After a furtive half-minute in a back room tickling Trump’s earhole last
Labour’s rebranding aligns with a global surge in far-right, anti-migrant rhetoric ~ Blade Runner ~ Labour’s government is celebrating record deportation figures while pushing through draconian new legislation that criminalises migration to an unprecedented degree. The Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill imposes severe penalties: 14-year prison sentences for selling small boat parts or offering
The former Deputy Prime Minister weaponised his northern roots and trade union affiliations to enable neoliberal Labour and its wars ~ Uri Gordon ~ John Prescott, the plainspoken northern bruiser who riled upper-class Tories while loyally advancing the New Labour project, has died. For many anarchists, the former Deputy Prime Minister embodied the grim transformation
We must prepare for an extreme right surge after the polls, no matter how few MPs the Tories and Reform end up with
At times it looks like they are trying to outdo each other in being nasty Facing a crash at the polls on July 4, for a while now the Tories have been trying to look as tough as they can on a range of socially conservative issues, in the hope of overturning their polling fortunes.
Yesterday, hundreds of protesters gathered at the annual SME 4 Labour awards ceremony to call on senior Labour figures to push for a full ceasefire in Gaza.
Each offers only a mildly different serving of uninspiring neoliberal hellscape, with only your choice of authoritarian topping to set them apart.
The local election results are in, the “hold your nose” crowd have helped hand Sir Starmer’s Labour a resounding PR win and congratulations, the prize is “Clause IV on Steroids.”
The reason both parties are fighting to be the most horrendous is that both parties are trying to attract the same voters.
The NHS will be 75 this year. If it were a person, they’d have been deprived of oxygen and food for 10 years, had vital organs sold for 10 years previously with contractors finding out which body parts they could do without before that. NHS dismantling, begun by Thatcher in the late Seventies, later progressed
Ash Sarkar’s discussion of identity politics is coming out during a liberal post-Biden “reassessment”, which some would say is 10 years too late ~ Anonymous ~ Ash Sarkar, of Novara Media and “literally a communist” fame, has written her first book, Minority Rule, whose central thesis employs a double meaning of the book’s title, describing
Action closes two-week peace camp near base for US nuclear bombers ~ Helen Baczkowska ~ Saturday April 26th 2025 saw a blockade of the American military base at Lakenheath in Suffolk—the final action of a two-week long peace camp.
The offer of space tourism to rich women is a pastiche of feminism which acts only to showcase the shallowness of corporate liberalism ~ Sourdough ~ Earlier this month, for the first time since Valentina Tereshkova’s 1963 spaceflight, an all-female crew briefly took to space aboard Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard for a total of 11
Calendars are rapidly filling up, but there should always be time to hang out with comrades, peruse the latest political literature and scheme over a coffee …
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.
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