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Federal agents, in a totally unprecedented move, have been unleashed on the people of Portland to stalk, arrest, and disappear all for the crime of protesting police brutality.
Read More It’s Happening Here"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear"- Antonio Gramsci
Federal agents, in a totally unprecedented move, have been unleashed on the people of Portland to stalk, arrest, and disappear all for the crime of protesting police brutality.
Read More It’s Happening HereThe bourgeois media has been framing these events as being an imported conflict between Turks and Kurds, but at the very latest now it must become more than apparent that this is not a conflict between Turks and Kurds. This is a conflict between fascists and anti-fascists, between reactionary, imperialist forces and progressive revolutionaries. And this is not a conflict to be taken lightly.
Read More The Threat of Fascism in Vienna is Real and it is Here“In hindsight, we all should’ve seen this coming. The onrushing descent into a cyberpunk dystopian hellscape would only call for a totally cyberpunk response. I’m referring, of course, to Anonymous Juneteenth’s present to the world better known as #BlueLeaks, a steaming data dump on the face of the pigs that rivals Wikileaks in size and scope.”
Read More A Totally Gibson Plot TwistThere is a need for us to step up our efforts to build a strong culture of anti-fascism in Scotland that is rooted in the communities we live in and come from. We talk about it a lot, but it’s time to get serious about our efforts and begin organising in areas where we don’t have a presence.
Read More Anti-Fascist Diversity is our StrengthWhen Boris Johnson condemned Black Lives Matter protesters as ‘thugs’ recently, he may or may have not fully realised the racialised significance of what he was doing. Thug – as a term – has a long colonial history which, ironically, further paints the Prime Minister as having a somewhat romanticised view of colonialism.
Read More On Thuggery – A Brief History of a Racialised TermThe slogan does not concern itself with personal qualities of individual cops. Like all slogans, it is unable to capture the nuance and complexity of an entire world system in a few words, and that is not its purpose. Slogans are intended to give you the spark- how you use it is your responsibility.
Read More Yes, All Cops Are Bastards. Even the “good” ones.The argument against our legal freedoms being encroached upon is more complex than good versus evil, or goodies and baddies. That the radical right and the conspiracy theorists have a narrative driven by opposing the government encroaching upon our freedoms does not mean that they have occupied all possible narratives about it.
Read More The Radical Left Have Cards to Play. The Rest are Bluffing.With hard times coming ahead, only solidarity will save us from the ruins. Long queues in foodbanks and support networks indicate that people are beginning to starve in many areas of every city. Uncertainty appears enhanced as a material way of being for many precarious popular classes who lost their jobs and do not know if they will ever return to work. While neighbours are supporting neighbours, the political opportunism of the right is seeking to catalyse the social catastrophe.
Read More Covid19, the far-right and upper-class revolt in SpainBy Emilio Bueno (Writing from Vera, Spain) The neutral ideology We are constantly witnessing how the right and left-wing are fighting, debating what is good for people or what is not. But today, in the times of the coronavirus, attention has shifted towards the management of the crisis. In this struggle, another point of view […]
Read More Coronavirus and “Common Sense”Selfish, reckless people, we are told, are responsible for the extent and speed of the spread of coronavirus. The general public are flocking to parks and beaches in spite of the current lockdown. ‘How dare they?’ we hear, when the truth is that the general public have more time and less money than they are used to living with, and the prospect of several months alone in a small flat is not an easy one.
Read More The Radical Act of Taking Up Space