Bittersweet Goodbyes & New Beginnings
Every time we come to write a post here, it’s often high time that we did so, and now is no exception. We’re starting to look forward towards the future, after a difficult start to the year. 2025 rounded out …
Category: Beyond Anarres
Mutually-Assured Distractions
Continuing from where we left off, in media res: Things haven’t really cooled down here, since. The following Friday, bailiffs from GRC bragged to occupants of a squatted site the night before how: “you lot will be gone tomorrow.” Cue …
In Bristol, the Feeling’s Mutual
Recently we were speaking about Corona virus – just like every single other person, ever. And their dog (though our dog hasn’t… yet). We also spoke about our involvement with the BASE & Roses (B&R) mutual aid food distro, which …
Conquest Of And Roses
It’s a hard time for governments, right now – particularly for their figureheads. Consider Boris Johnson. He’d probably like nothing more than to continue his charade of playing the bumbling, blustering, quaintly-British version of Donald Trump, and keep Britain’s economy …
Trans-Formative Justice
We’ve not long come back from the Radical Routes winter gathering, which took place from 14 to 16 February in Liverpool at the Black-E community centre. We’ve spoken a bit about Radical Routes in past blog posts (see here, for …
*INSERT MANCHESTER BOOKFAIR-RELATED PUN HERE*
Just a quick update to say that we’ve just got back following yesterday’s (Saturday 7th December) Manchester & Saltford Anarchist Bookfair, which took place at the People’s History Museum in Manchester centre. We were there doing pretty much the same …
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
We originally wrote the following for one of our old business plans, and it occurred to us recently that some of this info might be of interest. So here it is, in all its gory detail: Renting or buying houses …
Dorset 3.0
Just a quick update to say that we were doing a Radical Routes stall last weekend, during the third Dorset Radical Bookfair here. We were there to talk about Radical Routes and co-ops in general, and enjoyed various chatter with …
A Review of Ursula K Le Guin’s ‘The Dispossessed’
“I come to you like the beggar man…” When I first sat down to write this review all I could think of saying was along the lines of “The Dispossessed is about two worlds divided by a wall, and what …
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