Carl Spender
19 January 2020
Explainer: The activist legal support network
A lot has changed in the world of activist legal support and many people have been left wondering who they should turn to for advice and support.…
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Sarah Jane Baker
15 January 2020
100 Days of Freedom: A new year’s message from Sarah Jane Baker
Last week, Sarah Jane Baker celebrated her 100th day as a free woman, having served 30 years in men’s prisons. At the time of her release, she…
DIY Kodak Collective
14 January 2020
Don’t despair, organise!: DIY Kodak Collective Squatted Night Shelter
London Road in Brighton is a clear example of the austerity crisis in Britain. The road is lined with closed businesses and people in every doorway. On…
South Norwood Community Kitchen
9 January 2020
Don’t despair, organise!: How to start a community kitchen
This text first appeared at the awesome South Norwood Community Kitchen’s website. Community kitchens are popping up all around the country and they are truly spaces that…
Joe Reynolds
6 January 2020
They Work Here: The Psychological Violence of Arbitrary Detention
CW: police brutality, abuse, sexual abuse, torture The failure of authority in Europe extends across nationalism and borders, it is explicit in our internationally shared crimes on…
Transpontine
5 January 2020
Southwark Spain Shop: anti-fascist shop in 1930s Walworth Road
This text first appeared at Transpontine blog. Edith Tudor-Hart (1908–1973) was an Austrian photographer who studied at the Bauhaus. Born Edith Suschitzky, she came from a left…
Shiri Shalmy
3 January 2020
Don’t despair, organise!: an introduction to Cooperation Kentish Town
By 21 December, a week after a disastrous election for the left and a few days into the subsequent soul searching, everyone was suddenly talking about how…
Wil Crisp
2 January 2020
Brains Kan: Norfolk’s anarchist rave revolution
“It was the first time we had ever dealt with a riot squad … We didn’t know what to do so we just reinforced the barricades and carried on with the rave.”
Zosia Brom
31 December 2019
Noj Giter-Granatsztajn: Belchatow’s anarchist tailor
Noj Giter-Granatsztajn (aka Sznajder, or Noj Noj Lodzer) was born in 1886 in the central Polish town of Bełchatów. The son of a poor Jewish tailor, from…
Joe Reynolds
26 December 2019
Independence from what? The Canine Anarchist Expropriators
Far from the mainstream nationalist debates on independence, our failure to coherently confront power and offer meaningful alternatives, a community of squatters and expropriators live on the…
Peter Ó Máille
21 December 2019
Solidarity for West Papua is overdue
“Those Papuans of yours are some 700,000 and living in the Stone Age” said John F Kennedy in 1963, as he approved an agreement to hand over…
Stephen Parfitt
15 December 2019
History: The rise and fall of the Knights of Labor
A look at the legendary US workers’ organisation from its founding in 1869 to its collapse in the 1890s and considers what lessons can be drawn by modern militants.
Philip Sansom
7 December 2019
Syndicalism and the working class experience
In this classic explainer of trade unionism without bureaucrats from 1952, Philip Sansom (pictured) considers the thinking behind anarcho-syndicalism before giving an example from the time—the fascinating…
Fred Hampton
4 December 2019
Power anywhere where there’s people
50 years since the FBI murdered Fred Hampton
Netpol
2 December 2019
Travelling to the COP25 summit in Madrid? Make sure you know your rights
If you are planning to travel from Britain to protests at the United Nations COP25 climate change conference in Madrid, which begins next week, it is important…