Category Archives: Analysis
Second Wave of Crisis
The real cost of keeping us poor Bank of England chairman Mervin King now openly admits that this might be the worst economic crisis in the history of capitalism. Those in positions of power and responsibility are supposed to play it cool. They are supposed to understate bad news and overstate good ones. But doing [...]
Defendants need your help
Witness appeal by legal support groups Anarchists, perhaps more than any other political grouping, have always excelled in solidarity and support work. It is because we challenge the authority of government and the legitimacy of the state that we often face the severest hostility and repression from them, and we understand what is required in [...]
Staying in Afghanistan
Ross Eventon makes the argument against the continued US presence in the region Reports that the US is determined to maintain a presence in Afghanistan will surprise no one except 99% of foreign policy analysts. Responding to the announcement that the US is in negotiations to maintain a presence until 2024, Mahdi Hassan, senior editor [...]
Staying in Afghanistan
Ross Eventon makes the argument against the continued US presence in the region Reports that the US is determined to maintain a presence in Afghanistan will surprise no one except 99% of foreign policy analysts. Responding to the announcement that the US is in negotiations to maintain a presence until 2024, Mahdi Hassan, senior editor [...]
London Anarchist Bookfair 2011
The anarchist movement under one roof Since the last London bookfair, the UK’s biggest and one of the world’s best known anarchist gatherings, no one could have really predicted events unfolding the way they have. From the belligerent student protests and occupations to the anti-cuts movement and European-style black bloc erupting across the streets on [...]
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 [...]
