Andy and Simon talking about Nigel Farage coldly provoking a far-right rager, of course.
Anarchist News Review: Farage’s Icy Heart and AI IPO shenanigans
Tag: Reform UK
Anarchist News Review: Local elections special (Boo! hiss!)
Jon, Andy and Simon talk about local elections tonight, and you know we’re non-partisan because our main manifesto point would involve gettin…
Repression is not defeated by ballots
Nearly all the tools for a police state are now in place, just waiting for the far right to take over ~ Rob Ray ~ Many people have heard of the “…
Anarchist News Review: Farage on Tour as Iran quagmire continues
~ Kell and Simon consider the reasoning, tactics and potentialities of the Reform UK rallies taking place across Britain over the next few weeks, t…
Anarchist News Review: Greens v Reform and the US gears up for war
~ Mike and Jon have a chat about the ramifications of the Gorton and Denton by-election, Spycops and roads protest, the prospects of war in Iran an…
2025: A gilded year for the right, hubris fulfilled on the left
Both the “centre” and the cobweb left wallowed in failure, while the far right easily had its best year ~ Rob Ray ~ Reform UK has consistently …
York students rally against racist speaker
Farage’s TikTok channel operator has lauded human rights abuses ~ Scott Harris ~ Over 400 students and staff joined a rally opposing the invi…
Anarchist News Review: Mamdani’s win, Reform’s travails and JSO jailings
Amid a chorus of great joy at the election of a self-described socialist in New York, it falls to the anarchists, as ever, to sound a discordant no…
Liberty is a muscle, it must be exercised
In its quest to outflank Reform to the right, Labour has not just continued the 2020s Tory assault on protest and left-wing dissent, but deepened i…
Anarchist News Review: Racists are cross and politicians are licking jackboot
Andy, Sam and Simon take a slightly longer look at the far-right protests which have dominated silly season’s news agenda, along with the rea…
Applause and abuse at the Durham Miners’ Gala
The event showed working class solidarity—but also the rising tensions in a Reform-supporting County ~ Tom Brown ~ It was an early start for …
Anarchist News Review: Palestine Action Ban, Welfare Rebellion and Israel-Iran-US
It comes to something when even voicing support for a non-violent direct action group risks being designated as crossing the line, but Labour is no…
Anarchist News Review: Israel-Iran war, Kneecap and attacks on Amazon
The slippage from containing WMDs to calls for regime change rings all too familiar — but wars’ main function is still to preserve regi…
Not again with the Burqa Ban?
As Reform UK splits over a stale debate, Muslim women’s voices remain conspicuously absent ~ James Horton ~ Many had thought very little abou…
Anarchist News Review: Budgets, Palestine organising and Reform Doge’ing repsonsibility
Andy Meinke joins us for the weekly waffle, looking this week at Labour’s thrashing about as it tries to simultaneously backtrack on wildly u…
Recent Articles
Starmer’s downfall – long time coming yet inevitable
The outgoing PM is a textbook example of a public figure who jettisoned principles in the search for power ~ Paul Gravett ~ The revolving door of U…
EU votes to speed up deportations
Removal of undocumented people becomes easier as far-right international continues to rise ~ Blade Runner ~ An alliance of centre-right and far-rig…
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 …
Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
