Shawn Hattingh looks at the fall of Robert Mugabe from power in Zimbabwe, arguing this will not bring liberation as it doesn’t confront an entrenched ruling state, capital and imperial elite.
Mugabe: The Old Man and the Coup
Tag: Zimbabwe
Crisis within Crisis, Zimbabwe: As we manufacture our own oppression
In this article originally written for South African anarchist group Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF), Leroy Maisiri talks about his experience returning to the crisis-beset State.
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Confessions of a Communard: The rocky road to collective change
Tensions between individual and collective needs have practical solutions—our neoliberal conditioning is harder to overcome ~ Warren Draper ~ Compromise is something we have struggled with at A Commune in the North (ACitN); it is a hard truth that, while we are in this pioneering phase and still small in number, the direction and wider
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
