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,
Chatting about what’s happening in economics, tech and direct action with a US twist thanks to this week’s guest, James Birmingham. The death of Robert Paul Wolff earlier this month sees us lose a significant firgure in philosophical anarchism, and someone who inspired James as he refined his political views. The latest direct action in
Items discussed in this program: UK farming protests • Trump’s domestic and world politics • Indigenous peoples’ Anti-COP
The Middle East war joins Ukraine as a permanent site of conflict, the new model for superpower dominance in the age of collapse ~ Blade Runner ~ In just one year, the devastation has been staggering: since Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, Israel’s military onslaught has retaliated thirty-fold, with over 41,000 Palestinians killed, including 13,000 children
In our third article from Palestine solidarity campers, the the Student and Staff Encampment Coalition write about their two months at the Univerity of Birmingham campus. Other articles in this series: On the 11th of July, at 5am we were evicted from our encampment on the University of Birmingham (UoB) campus. We were made to
Produced by a general assembly of people involved with a solidarity camp at Nottingham University, the following article considers how their aims evolved, and uni bosses reacted, over the course of the occupation. The Nottingham Camp for the Liberation of Palestine set up an encampment on Jubilee Campus after the University of Nottingham consistently ignored
Our message, visible on the banners raised around the pitch, was for a Free Palestine and the end of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
In the following analysis, participants in the campus occupations movement explore the strategic questions it confronts today.
How should we respond to the charges against the campus movement opposing apartheid and genocide?
Innocent Gazans face torture and death in Israeli detention camps.
Or could this all be an undercover anarchist joke to show the system’s bankruptcy?
A few thoughts on where we are as we teeter on the cusp of a decade-defining shift into armed nationalism ~ Rob Ray ~ In the deluge of capital-N News we’ve had over the last month, by far the most consequential for our war-distanced isles has been the announcement, Europe-wide, of massive rearmament.
Not only are we still around, we’re also setting up our own non-hierarchical school, organising a free cafe, and collaborating with other grassroots groups ~ The LMA Collective ~ There’s a story of how Lambeth Mutual Aid began, as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic: that immediate desire people had in March 2020 to support
Javier Milei’s ultra-liberal policies have doubled the prices of medicines and essential services, with a sharp decline in the value of pensions ~ Rob Latchford ~ A demonstration by pensioners, supported by football fans and social organisations, in Argentina on Wednesday 12 March ended in violent clashes with the police, the arrest of at least
The Glasgow anarchist poet and propagandist was a seeker of peace ~ Ethel McDonald ~ One of the leading lights of contemporary anarchism, John Couzin, died at home in Glasgow, Scotland in his partners arms aged almost 91.
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