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 “…
Repression is not defeated by ballots
Tag: Rob Ray
Capitalism’s ‘green transition’ is dead—was it ever truly alive?
Capitalists are much, much better at lying than at solving problems related to their own greed ~ Rob Ray ~ A couple of years ago I attended a talk …
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 …
Distracted by all the incitement
The ruling class is no longer even pretending to justify its own laws through consistent use ~ Rob Ray ~ One of the (many) silly things about the…
Contrarians in a time of right hegemony
For comics who define themselves as rattling status quo cages the rapid reversal of social liberalism presents some challenges ~ Rob Ray ~ For many…
Radical Reprint: The false dawns of electoral leftism
The results of an election 80 years ago prompted arguments which have familiar, rhyming lines for our modern context ~ Rob Ray ~ At long last, afte…
Film Review: To Kill A War Machine
This lucid and passionate documentary about Palestine Action is well worth viewing before Starmer’s “social democrats” censor it ~ Rob Ra…
Book review: Everything To Play For
Marijam Did’s sharply-observed and well researched dive into the politics of gaming fills a major gap in how the Left has approached the subj…
Identity Cards? Again? Really?
It’s back, it has another excuse, and it’s still an extraordinarily bad idea ~ Rob Ray ~ In a very specific, eye-rolling-and-muttering-…
Radical Reprint: Stalin’s ‘left’ turn
With the Second World War coming to its conclusion it naturally left an undignified political scramble in its wake
Labour’s housing solution is doomed to fail
Obsessing about how many homes are being built is a similar mindset to GDP-gazing – it fails to understand the true nature of the problem
All change in the councils: Except it isn’t
Oh garçon, I’d like Enoch-was-right Toryism with even more grifting, please.
Anarchism and the New Military Wave (pt. 2)
As Europe’s ruling class responds to the post-Pax Americana world with anguish and armaments, here are the opportunities and threats facing Briti…
Anarchism and the New Military Wave (pt.1)
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 Ne…
Labour’s rose is as ash and smoke
Perhaps an anti-Labour sentiment is no surprise coming from an anarchist opinion column, but my atheism, this shower of spineless rejects from cent…
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No consent to confinement
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Anarchist News Review: Belfast pogroms and World Cup corruption
Jack and Mike discuss some of the worst racist violence in recent Northern Irish history, looking at the factors behind it, both historic loyalist …
Abolish AI – before it abolishes us
Evidence of the existential threat posed to humanity by artificial intelligence accrues day by day ~ Bill Weinberg ~ The United Nations on 4 June i…
Israeli academia “under command”
Report exposes Israeli higher education’s collaboration with military and arms manufacturers ~ Nissi Peli ~ Israel’s deliberate and thoroug…
