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“Police everywhere, justice nowhere!”: Gilets Jaunes on the streets of Nîmes

17th January 2019

As the Gilets Jaunes movement continues, we republish this article by Paul Cudenec of the Shoal Collective. The article results from participant observation among the Gilets Jaunes in the Southern French town of Nîmes, it was originally published by Winter Oak. I had been warned not to say anything to anyone about the meet-up point […]

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A las barricadas: Building new kinds of barricades

9th January 2019

The following text was produced to accompany a creative workshop by Plan C Aesthetics Cluster at the Fast Forward festival 2018, entitled: Building New Kinds of Barricades. Over the course of the weekend, we collectively managed to instigate the spontaneous construction of three different barricades: one which accumulated on site over the course of the

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A feminist anti-racist antifascism

4th January 2019

It is sadly timed that in 2018 we lost the great thinker and activist, Ambalavaner Sivanandan. It is not just his death that has reignited a belated interest in his work, although the death of a public figure always brings more of the recognition which they did not get in their lifetime. It is the contemporary

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Conscientious Objector in Cyprus Faces Prosecution

2nd January 2019

As a Conscientious Objector, Halil Karapaşaoğlu faces the possibility of going to prison. The Initiative for Conscientious Objection in Cyprus calls upon all anti-militarist and peace activists to show their solidarity and presence in the coming days and leading up to 3rd January 2019 when a decision will be announced for his case at the

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For a 2019 under the sign of the strike!

31st December 2018

To wish a happy and combative new year to all comrades, we republish the resolutions of the Transnational Social Strike Platform meeting held in Stockholm on 23-25 November 2018. This is a roadmap for striking back against the logistics of exploitation, for a 2019 under the sign of the strike! In all corners of Europe,

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Statement and call to action by the Internationalist Commune of Rojava

21st December 2018

Less than a year after the start of the criminal war of aggression against the canton Afrin, the people of North-Eastern Syria are again confronted with an aggression by the fascist state of Turkey and its Islamist allies. The threats of the Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan are no empty words, are not just election

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No to Tommy, No to Fortress Britain: Report on 9th December demo

14th December 2018

On Sunday 9th December 2018, a coalition of anti-fascist and anti-racist groups organised to oppose the ‘Brexit Betrayal’ march, led by UKIP’s Tommy Robinson. The coalition was formed by a large section of London residents (see list below), including Feminist Anti-fascist Assembly (FAF), who were due to lead the march. This report of the day

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The Yellow Vests (‘Gilets Jaunes’)

7th December 2018

We have probably all seen the news from France, many of us feeling a surge of joy as the people appear to take the streets, others confused as to the nature of the movement when we find out it was triggered by a rising fuel tax that was motivated by a need to address issues

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Paedophilia, rape and ‘grooming gangs’: Why feminism, not the far right, is the answer

5th December 2018

I am generally against letting the far right set the terms of a debate. That’s why I think calls from the left to ‘address paedophilia’ are often disingenuous and misguided and actually coming from a similar place to the racist, socially conservative scaremongering of the right. Anyone engaging with far right ideologues on their own

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No to Tommy Robinson: No to Fortress Britain

27th November 2018

On December 9th, UKIP and the founder of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson plan to bring their racist far-right circus to the streets of London. We oppose everything the far right stand for: racism, hatred of migrants and reactionary ideas about women’s ‘proper’ role as housewives and mothers. The far right are using the

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