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The Rich ‘Take Up Space’
April 26th: The offer of space tourism to rich women is a pastiche of feminism which acts only to showcase the shallowness of corporate liberalism ~ Sourdough ~ Earlier this month, for the first time since Valentina Tereshkova’s 1963 spaceflight, an all-female crew briefly took to space aboard Jeff Bezos’ New Shepard for a total of 11
Papal Accounts: Some thoughts on Pope Francis
April 22nd: From an anarchist perspective, Pope Francis was certainly not the worst of the men who have sat their elderly backsides on Papal thrones in living memory.
Notes from the US: Surprised? Maybe not
April 21st: Trump’s presidency is still not widely seen for the fascist coup that it is ~ Louis Further ~ Be honest and ignore your ‘scepticism’ about the ‘decency’ of politics in the United States: would you have believed it, had you been told ten years ago, that its president would be a twice impeached convicted felon,
TERF Island: How could anyone celebrate the UK Supreme Court decision?
April 19th: The ones who want trans folks out of the public sphere will now feel emboldened to challenge us, to abuse us, to misgender us ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ It’s the sheer sadism of it—the corks popping outside the Supreme Court as a group of women and a couple of men cheer at excluding one
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Revolution
April 16th: The history of hitchhiking shows the social value of sharing the road with strangers and friends alike ~ Jonathan Purkis ~ Imagine, if you can, that hitchhiking was once again part of everyday culture.
How the UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management
April 11th: Algorithms, facial recognition, and tightening protest laws signal a deepening surveillance state ~ Blade Runner ~ The UK is expanding its use of predictive policing and surveillance, framing it as a response to crime, protest, and public safety.
Against ‘human nature’
April 4th: To claim selfishness is our affliction ignores the conditions of a system that prioritises greed above all other virtues ~ Sourdough ~ A common refrain posed to anarchists and all those who dream of a better future is that we can not create a better society because of ‘human nature’: we are not good enough
Face masks at protests: If not now, when?
April 2nd: A proposed ban on wearing a face covering at a protest is an enormous challenge to protest organisers and human rights groups ~ Kevin Blowe ~ Labour’s new Policing and Crime Bill, currently under consideration in the House of Commons, has proposed the creation of a new offence of “concealing identity at protests”.
Just Stop Oil: The dead end of symbolic disruption
March 31st: The end of JSO’s actions marks more than a tactical shift, exposing the limits of symbolic resistance in a system built on ecocide ~ Blade Runner ~ Just Stop Oil has announced it is ending its campaign of disruptive action.
Welfare cuts: Labour’s political suicide
March 24th: Or could this all be an undercover anarchist joke to show the system’s bankruptcy ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Cheerily kicking kittens, earnestly pulling wings off flies, making the difficult choice to slam the freezer shut on next door’s puppies: has the government gone mad, we demand to know, but answer comes there none, unless it’s
