A decentred leaderless movement aims to shut down France on 10 September in a powerful attack on the bankruptcy of Macronism ~ punkacademic ~ It’s unusual that the loss of a Prime Minister and their government might not be the worst thing to happen in a week for a sitting French President, but this week
While more of a doom preacher than a political ideologue, the themes of war, mental health, and social decay remained a constant in his work ~ Stanton Cree ~ Ozzy Osbourne, heavy metal’s “Prince of Darkness”, is dead at 76.
Palestine solidarity gestures have multiplied in football—often referring to Handala, an iconic cartoon character and symbol of hope ~ Yann Dey-Helle, Dialectik Football ~ At MetLife Stadium in suburban New York, Wessam Abou Ali recently celebrated his second goal against FC Porto by posing with one hand behind his back and the other making the
True change won’t come from the ballot but from sustained, people-powered movements ~ Andrew J Boyer ~ Two recent developments have jolted voters out of despair on both sides of the Atlantic: Zohran Mamdani’s upset win in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, and Zarah Sultana’s announcement that she will leave Labour to launch a
Or could this all be an undercover anarchist joke to show the system’s bankruptcy ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Cheerily kicking kittens, earnestly pulling wings off flies, making the difficult choice to slam the freezer shut on next door’s puppies: has the government gone mad, we demand to know, but answer comes there none, unless it’s
Confronting the far right means solidarity with climate refugees ~ James Horton ~ In late January, the Climate and Nature (CaN) Bill failed to pass at the House of Commons.
Bound to capitalism and electoralism, the statist left has nothing to offer during a period of crisis and restructuring — leaving the field to the fascists ~ Blade Runner ~ Over the past decade, we’ve witnessed the resurgence of a familiar historical pattern, with segments of the working class and poorer communities increasingly turning to
Student rent strikes have become something of a phenomenon in London.
“…while liberty of thought is written in the charter, slavery of thought, under the name of majority rule, is decreed by the charter.”
With the Housing Bill about to come into effect, conditions are looking bleak for the working class.
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
To resist normalisation, we need enduring groundwork with attacked communities—and spaces for open strategising ~ Blade Runner ~ On Saturday 13 September, between 110,000 and 150,000 turned out in response to Tommy Robinson’s call, a mobilisation framed as a defence of “free speech” but saturated with white nationalist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric.
Well-coordinated direct action catches the police off guard, showing the power of secure and strategic organising ~ Kevin Blowe ~ On 9 September, at around 7.30 in the morning, an advance bloc of about 150 protesters, their faces covered, suddenly appeared by London City Hall in east London, near to where Britain’s largest arms fair,
The regime deported 52 political prisoners in exchange for sanctions relief ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Anarchist Nikolai (Mikola) Dziadok was among 52 political prisoners released and deported from Belarus to Lithuania on 11 September, following negotiations between dictator Alexander Lukashenko and US envoy John Colae.
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