UK Supreme Court muddies the waters on deprivation of liberty, as safeguards are stripped away ~ punkacademic ~ The Supreme Court last week ruled o…
No consent to confinement
Tag: The State
A K-shaped obfuscation
The tiny group following the upward economic path is assisted and enabled by the State at every turn ~ David D’Amato ~ The corporate press …
Analysis of Law, Legitimacy, Violence and Solidarity in Jack Womack’s Random Acts of Senseless Violence
With reference to critical legal studies and Marxist/Anarchist legal theories, and via a law and literature framework, I hope to analyse Jack Womac…
The surveillance state doesn’t want you to mask up
Right-wing anti-face mask activism has been a mass phenomenon in the US on the grounds of individual freedoms, but seems to be edging into left-lib…
Tug of class war: Agamben vs Zizek on the impact of Covid-19
Panos Theodoropoulos analyses a war of words which has broken out between two well-known political philosophers over the nature of State reactions …
The fragility of the system
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked widespread economic difficulty and societal issues, forcing States across the globe to act in accordance.
Silent givers: How the government manipulates charity
A recent furore in Scotland has focused on the Foreign Office playing piggy bank to a small ‘anti-fake news’ charity, but State po…
The Retreat of the State
As I write, there have been more murders in London than New York so far this year, and the Home Secretary has just denied that cuts to police numbe…
Why beer is in a bad State
In this special feature written for the Organise Issue 88, a member of the Anarchist Federation looks into the historic consequences of State inte…
Venezuela: State Power — when the Left is the problem
As protests rise once again on the streets of Caracas, we are witnessing a struggle between the conservative Venezuelan bourgeoisie removed from c…
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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.
