The UK Strategic Defence Review will only deliver security for arms companies—not anyone using a food bank ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Sometimes you do have to love people in Britain—consider the almost universal reaction to the current prime minister announcing that we’re all now on a war footing: fuck off.
The state targeted people living on the road because it was anarchy in action and it was working ~ Neil Goodwin ~ Today marks the 40th anniversary of one of the darkest days in contemporary British history, when a convoy of 150 vehicles heading to the 1985 people’s free festival at Stonehenge was ambushed in
Protesters across the UK were a diverse crowd, with slogans ranging from plaintive to militant ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ Mass demonstrations took place across the UK yesterday (19 April) protesting the Supreme Court decision on the interpretation of transgender people’s rights under the Equalities Act.
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
Luxury department store woes mount as workers oppose relentless overwork, stagnant wages and stripped-back benefits ~ Francis Kingston ~ With the luxury department store facing serious questions about its handling of Mohamed Al Fayed’s sexual abuse, Harrods workers are preparing to strike over Christmas.
An absolute triumph of punk scholarship and alternative historiography ~ Jim Donaghey ~ Reading through this richly detailed overview of punk zines from the late 1970s and the 1980s, you can feel the effort that Matt Worley has poured into this.
Kemi Badenoch exemplifies the decades-long tradition in the UK of ‘pulling up the ladder’, practiced by class-ascendant immigrants on the right of the political spectrum ~ Daniel Adediran ~ Kemi Badenoch is the death’s head of the Tory Party.
Coordinated antifascist defense has been inspiring, but it must grow to become omnipresent — Tuesday July 30 saw the start of an uprising of far-right terror on British streets.
Budget shortfalls can be solved without major spending cuts, but Labour’s economic strategy is driven by electoral concerns
Join us on election night for anarchist analysis and reactions as the results come in.
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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