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Anarchist News Review: Palestine Action Ban, Welfare Rebellion and Israel-Iran-US

Anarchist News Review: Palestine Action Ban, Welfare Rebellion and Israel-Iran-US

It comes to something when even voicing support for a non-violent direct action group risks being designated as crossing the line, but Labour is no defender of freedom of speech and protest. Tabitha and Andy join us to discuss the decision of former defender of principled dissent Keir Starmer to ban an organisation that he

Labour’s authoritarian urge

Labour’s authoritarian urge

Labour’s desire for authority comes from an instinct to prove they can manage the workers best ~ Jon Bigger ~ Two themes have been ever-present in Labour Party history. The first is an elitist view of the working class, in which the best voices, the most intelligent and responsible voices, will be found at the

Labour’s sweet little lies

Labour’s sweet little lies

From destroying the environment to betraying the disabled, the government is running the same play—will people fall for it? ~ punkacademic ~ There’s the old adage that goes: the first time people show you who they are, believe them. Over a decade ago, Rachel Reeves, today the Chancellor of the Exchequer, then Shadow Work and

Labour’s rose is as ash and smoke

Labour’s rose is as ash and smoke

Perhaps an anti-Labour sentiment is no surprise coming from an anarchist opinion column, but my atheism, this shower of spineless rejects from centrist central casting have had no compunction at all in sucking up to the newly-installed Imperial Orange ~ Rob Ray ~ After a furtive half-minute in a back room tickling Trump’s earhole last

Do it like Trump—Labour targets migrants

Do it like Trump—Labour targets migrants

Labour’s rebranding aligns with a global surge in far-right, anti-migrant rhetoric ~ Blade Runner ~ Labour’s government is celebrating record deportation figures while pushing through draconian new legislation that criminalises migration to an unprecedented degree. The Border Security, Asylum, and Immigration Bill imposes severe penalties: 14-year prison sentences for selling small boat parts or offering

John Prescott: The Blairite bulldog who forgot the working class

John Prescott: The Blairite bulldog who forgot the working class

The former Deputy Prime Minister weaponised his northern roots and trade union affiliations to enable neoliberal Labour and its wars ~ Uri Gordon ~ John Prescott, the plainspoken northern bruiser who riled upper-class Tories while loyally advancing the New Labour project, has died. For many anarchists, the former Deputy Prime Minister embodied the grim transformation

Five horrors from the Tory and Labour manifestos

Five horrors from the Tory and Labour manifestos

At times it looks like they are trying to outdo each other in being nasty Facing a crash at the polls on July 4, for a while now the Tories have been trying to look as tough as they can on a range of socially conservative issues, in the hope of overturning their polling fortunes.