By Alice Swift For the last five years, the left-wing political community of Birmingham has been involved in a community accountability process that takes collective responsibility against sexual violence. Alice Swift shares her reflections on that process. This is the first in a series of articles reflecting on the community accountability process. Please note that […]
In the June 21st episode of the ‘This American Life’ podcast, producer Bim Adewunmi asked, partly rhetorically, partly seriously, “why now?”
Why Now? On the current phase of the Black Lives Matter movement. Read More »
Please note: there are sections of this book that describe and discuss violence, including sexual violence. “It is written to shift the discourse within the social movements that matter to me. It presents an argument that those outside the elite or capitalist class, those who define themselves as socialists, communists or anarchists, must address unequal
Tracksuits, Trauma and Class Traitors by D Hunter – Book Review Read More »
There are only a few days left to donate to the Water for Rojava campaign. Help us raise £100,000 to support women’s co-operatives and vital water projects in North-East Syria. Thankfully the target has been already reached, but the more the better. Water is not a weapon, water is life! DONATE HERE! If you have
Water for Rojava campaign: Last days, donate now! Read More »
On 25th May, another great tragedy befell the black community of Minneapolis at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin has a long record of abuse of power (although calling it an abuse of power today feels like a euphemism: truly, it is business as usual for those in power). Prior to Floyd, Chauvin
Justice for George Floyd Read More »
Collective action, carried out with the precautions required by the COVID-19 pandemic, is necessary to generate the ‘social protection equipment’ we need to face the coronacrisis, argues this report on the 30 April and 1 May strikes in Italy originally published by Globalproject.info. #DemandANewNormal In the occasion of the two-day mobilisation called by ADL Cobas
Pandemic struggles in Italy: A report from the 30 April and 1 May strikes Read More »
By Olly, Plan C Bristol There’s been a lot of talk and chatter recently about how soon it might take us, meaning England, Britain, the world in general, to ‘get back to normal’. A big, big question though, is what does this mean? Is it about a return to being able to go to the
Demand a new normal! ‘Normal’ capitalism got us in this mess Read More »
By a volunteer of an autonomous scrub-producing unit. Key workers are risking their lives with no adequate protections as a result of decades of austerity. As the system is failing us, mutual aid practices point towards ways or organising society on the basis of need, not profit. #DemandANewNormal Much like the elderly forced to walk
Scrubs: The story from the bottom up Read More »
By John de Plume The coronacrisis threatens to drive capital accumulation, leading to more authoritarian forms of capitalism around the world, which will further the crisis of our social and planetary environment. One Struggle / One Fight We know that capital lives vampire-like, and ‘lives the more, the more labour it sucks’. But what vampire
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Don’t be fooled. Government responses to the pandemic reflect economic and political priorities. By Cyril Winstanley This is the second part of a two-part series of articles called From Marshall Plan to Martial Law. Here I look at how the government, although apparently united in the same aim as all of us (the elimination of
From Marshall Plan to Martial Law Pt. 2 Read More »
