Authoritarian regimes have regularly used the World Cup for sportswashing ~ Aris Chatzistefanou ~ It was only the second FIFA World Cup when FIFA b…
Trump’s World Cup—and Mussolini’s
Tag: North America
Capital punishment: The state’s strength and weakness
Killing prisoners does not rehabilitate them, nor does it benefit their victims ~ Wrona ~ The death penalty is again in the global headlines.
The new Palmer Raids
How Trump’s war on dissent borrows from America’s darkest playbook ~ Joel Sucher ~ History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes &…
The transatlantic war on freedom
Moving a box of zines can now get you 30 years in Trump’s America, echoing the UK’s crackdown on protest ~ punkacademic ~ On Tuesday, w…
Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …
Jim Crow is still alive
One day people will look at today’s global Apartheid the way we look at American Segregation ~ Joseph Chen ~ Whenever I turn back to the hist…
Notes from the US: Racism on parade
In Republican states, congressional districts are being redrawn to exclude Black votes ~ Louis Further ~ With the usual anarchist caveat that the m…
Notes from the US: A long, dark tunnel
With Americans so poorly informed, it’s hardly surprising that their acceptance of atrocities is correspondingly high ~ Louis Further ~ The &…
Notes from the US: Trump’s war
Driven by looming midterms and the Epstein Files, the MAGA cult has no credible arguments for this bloodbath ~ Louis Further ~ The “best mone…
Notes from the US: Deliberately abusive
The MAGA/Trump cult’s embrace of white supremacism becomes more blatant almost daily ~ Louis Further ~ Narratives on the vaguely-left-leaning…
Notes from the US: Might makes right
A single supremacist agenda connects Venezuela and Minneapolis—and it is starting to over-reach ~ Louis Further ~ “We live in a world i…
Notes from the US: Supremacist dictatorship
From racist electoral engineering to hollowing out public health, Trump’s second term is consolidating authoritarian power ~ Louis Further ~ As a…
“This Empire too will be Eclipsed”
Report from Carbondale, Illinois on recent march and demonstration during the eclipse.
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Report from Durham Miners’ Gala
~ Tom Brown ~ The 140th Durham Miners’ Gala took place on Saturday 11 July with thousands of attendees as usual, banners and brass bands.
The Frankensteinian efforts to control us have failed
Isolating our bodies in fluorescent-lit cells 24/7 has proven unable to desensitise us ~ Hybachi LeMar ~ It’s no coincidence so many of us on the…
Maja T interview: “I resist in the cage of isolation”
Locked in a Hungarian prison, she's been living in a cell without social interaction for two years: "It's an inhumane system that prevents even min…
Bristol activists blockade Elbit contractors
Workers at logistics provider DSV were “very supportive”, say organisers ~ Scott Harris ~ Disarm Bristol says a group of almost 40 pro…
Confessions of a communard: Meeting the people where they are
Our strategy for 2027 has been about visible grassroots initiatives which announce our presence ~ Wren Albion ~ At the end of 2026 A Commune in the…
