Category Archives: Analysis
June 30th: An anarchist teacher’s perspective
As an anarchist, I was not initially impressed by the idea of a one day strike. It didn’t sound very militant- going out on strike at the end of term after the exams were over when the students were about to finish in any case; there wasn’t going to be much impact. However, having now [...]
Andy Hayman and the CIB
Andy Hayman was in charge of Complaints Investigation Bureau – the Met police’s internal anti-corruption group. It turns out they were more corrupt than the coppers they were investigating. MPs demand inquiry into the Met’s ‘Untouchables’, accused of using the same illegal police tactics they are sworn to fight Corruption Squad under fire ‘Untouchables’of the [...]
You only love us when we strike
In the defence of trade unionism The anarchist (broadly speaking) critique of mainstream trade unions is well known, and valid. Big unions are arbiters and enforcers of social peace, supporters of the Labour Party, which is part of the system of electoral liberal democracy, and as such a reinforcement of business as usual. They are [...]
Wedding day fallout
The real cost of political policing for the royal wedding It was never going to be convenient for the cops to admit that all their intelligence was pointing towards the fact most anarchists couldn’t care less about a couple of toffs getting married. Having endured not only the humiliation of a large mobile black bloc [...]
Democracy as the alternative
Time for the self-organising revolution Today many thousands of people are ‘marching for an alternative’, but to my mind very few, if any, are expressing a truly convincing or appealing alternative to short term cuts and the long term privatisation, degradation of public services and dominance of profit seeking business that has been happening without [...]
From financial crisis to rebellious contagion
Since the official declaration of a systemic crisis in capitalism, broadcast live on 24 hour rolling news channels, the crisis has failed to be replaced by a substantial recovery. The domino effect reflects the reversal of the relative strengths of the countries involved, as the state becomes the only means by which apparently anti-state free [...]
Starvation on a global scale
Malnutrition remains an unresolved catastrophic world issue The United Nations says there are now over 900 million chronically undernourished people in the world. When the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) released 2010’s report on the State of Food Insecurity in the World, they estimated that 925 million people are chronically undernourished [...]
Crisis? What Crisis?
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford The government’s attack on the welfare state is based on the lie that it is necessary to cut back on public spending [...]
What is the role of the ABC?
The Anarchist Black Cross has been around for over a century now and, like many other organisations, it role has changed over time. It started as the Anarchist or Political Red Cross sometime between 1900-05 to provide aid to comrades in Tsarist Russia and grew from there, changing its name to avoid confusion with the [...]
Kashmir’s War Against India Continues
Background to the conflict for control of a region that threatens to become the new Palestine On the 15th of September Kashmir Valley observes more than three months of almost unbroken violence that started on June 11h. Since the last report in Freedom of the ongoing protests in that state, 23 more civilians have died [...]
