Wren @lbion
23 September 2026
Summer of Ludd
Any initiative, vital or virtual, which helps build relationships should be considered, but only if we have autonomous control of the medium
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Roderick McMillan
21 September 2026
Kropotkin’s lifeboats: Mutual aid VS welfare chauvinism
The RNLI’s cosmopolitan philosophy undermines a cornerstone of the far right’s worldview
Neil Middleton
19 September 2026
Greek prisoners release: Selective American condemnation is telling
Two long-term prisoners were released in Greece this week: a prominent neo-nazi leader, and an anarchist. Only one of the two was singled out by the US ambassador.
Jon Bigger
16 September 2026
Burnham’s antidote fallacy
For all his talk of devolution, the PM’s reforms are likely to embed the state ever more intrusively in our lives
E.
15 September 2026
Creating the conditions for anarchy
The road to liberation is long and arduous, but it can be taken step by step through education, non‑violent direct action, and a collective commitment to human flourishing
Jay Baker
12 September 2026
Digital connection, Disability and techno-fascism
It was never technology itself that we hated, but simply capitalism – and its inevitable enshittification of the web
Joel Sucher
8 September 2026
Climate activists confront data centres
The surge of AI‑powered data centres is straining the electric grid, draining water supplies, and forcing a new wave of climate‑justice activism
punkacademic
6 September 2026
Twenty-five years of the ‘forever war’
Radical Reprint: As American bombs rain down once again in the Middle East, we look back twenty-five years to a prescient warning
Freedom News
4 September 2026
Just Stop Oil rides again!
Anarchist News Review: There’s Bond Market troubles for Burnham as his promises deteriorate, Restore is joining Reform as the far-right is inundated with crypto-cash, and Just Stop Oil is blocking roads like it’s the early 2020s
Wren @lbion
3 September 2026
Operation Vital Reality
Confessions of a Communard: I will be ditching social media in favour of engaging directly with real human beings
Wren @lbion
5 August 2026
What’s in a name?
Confessions of a communard: After a Chinese airline kept misspelling my forename during a trip to Australia, I learnt more about naming in different cultures—and decided to make the change permanent
punkacademic
2 August 2026
The miseducation of Andy Burnham
Radical Reprint: Britain’s PM wants a more ‘relevant’ education system—we go back to 1959 to show when it comes to capitalist education, it’s the same as it ever was
Jay Arachnid
30 July 2026
The bane of Murray Bookchin Thought
There has never been a shortage of anarchists who get annoyed at other anarchists for ruining their club, but Bookchin’s caricature of the “lifestyle anarchist” has bizarrely maintained a certain cachet among sectarians
Contre-Attaque
27 July 2026
Stop everything—so we can keep going
“That everything continues like this, that is the real catastrophe”—With this phrase, the German philosopher and historian Walter Benjamin, a contemporary of the rise of totalitarianism, called…
Jon Bigger
27 July 2026
Britain’s first Prime Mayor
Burnham’s decentralisation of power from Westminster still represents undemocratic centralisation at the local level