What a start to 2019 — some of the news that has kicked off the year has been so big it will already be familiar to many readers.
Squatter’s Digest: A hard-hitting start
Tag: SLAP
New squatters’ newspaper SLAP released – Interview
Last week a new squatter newspaper, Squatters of London Action Paper (SLAP), debuted online and today physical copies have started to emerge in squats and radical bookshops.
Recent Articles
Notes from the US: Surplus population
Now it’s bare-faced fascism—but doctors are putting up more resistance than Democrats ~ Louis Further ~ As wildfires aggravated by climate collapse swept through the Pacific Northwest, last month a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operatives turned up at the site of the ‘Bear Gulch’ blaze in Washington state.
Anarchist News Review: The UK far-right cosplays the US, as Trump comes to town
Just days after sacking one Epstein pal, Starmer is welcoming another to hang out with the King and preen in castles—while arresting embarrassing critics ~ Andy and Simon consider an extremely newsey week, from Tommy Robinson’s biggest-ever march and Keir Starmer’s hebdomadis horribilis, to Trump’s chaotic (and ill-timed) UK visit, the fallout from Charlie Kirk,
Book review: Desire and Fate
Instead of a coherent critique of woke culture, we get a confused, grudge-laden screed that fails to balance the left’s internal contradictions with any meaningful analysis ~ John Henri Nolette ~ As a semi-sympathetic critic of both “woke” and “anti-woke” narratives, I had high hopes for this book.
London Anarchist Bookfair 2025: The workshops list
Kae Tempest, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin and Peter Gelderloos will be among the performers and speakers at this year’s big anarchist get-together ~ Freedom News ~ With the bookfair nearly upon us—this Saturday 20 September— Freedom threw a few messages at the organisers, who have kindly gotten back to us with the workshops schedule, fresh off
Nantes: 4,000 on the streets for Bloquons Tout
French police directed the demonstration with flash grenades and tear gas ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Saturday, 13 September, a rainy day in Nantes.
