"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
Contrary to what most media outlets and leaders want us to think, social distancing is far from a new phenomenon. What is new is its practical dimension.
Read More Agamben, Zizek, and the Virus: An Attempt at an Anti-Authoritarian SynthesisCapitalism depends on the myth of independence and the false belief of total self sufficiency. Disability disrupts it and opens up spaces for us think about our interdependence and how important and transformative it is for us to have deeply meaningful reciprocal relationships with each other.
Read More Capitalism, Disability and Ableism[This interview was conducted in the course of Panos Theodoropoulos’s PhD research into unions, migrant workers and labour struggles in the UK. We are releasing it because we consider that this text holds some ideas which can be useful contributions in the ongoing debates around issues such as organizing, trade unions, migrant workers, and wider […]
Read More Migrant Workers, Trade Unions and Solidarity: A Conversation with the Angry Workers of the World.Sabate talks about what organising really means, and issues a call to action for comrades in our movements.
Read More What are you doing? A call for Organising.Extinction Rebellion is currently the most radical and effective environmental movement in the UK right now. That situation has only come about because of a massive hole where an anti-state anti-capitalist direct action movement should be.
Read More Extinction Rebellion: Anarchists and radicals shouldn’t be surprised. We should be organised.We need to highlight the common sources of the plight of both British and migrant workers, and foreground the objectives of solidarity, community power, and the overthrow of this economic system as such. It is contradictory to argue against this system while at the same time proclaiming that migrant workers are welcome precisely because of the role they serve within it.
Read More The Thief and the Cash Cow: Twins from a union of enemiesBeing on the left can be overwhelming. Basically, you feel like you are aimlessly haunting the digestive tract of a beast that has devoured you. You no longer know any way of being outside the pulling and constricting muscles of this gullet, along with the sensory overload coming from noxious acids fizzing at the […]
Read More Scientism- the spectacular disguise of the Neoliberal TechnocratGiven the small size and timidity of our movements when compared to those in other European cities, recent arrests indicate a very focused effort by Police Scotland to destroy any instance of autonomous, collective organising that directly challenges the State and the dominant order. The question is, what do we do?
Read More ‘An Injury to One’… Some Reflections on State Repression and Movement ResponsesMigrant workers are one of the few sectors of society largely ‘uncontaminated’ and ‘un-incorporated’; outside the scope of hegemony, since hegemony is largely based on our Otherness, we are currently being denied even the possibility of a limited ‘acceptance’. This position therefore affords migrants the potential of acting as an important revolutionary subject.
Read More The Crack in the Edifice: Modern Capitalism, Migrant Workers and Social Movements
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