This odious global system
[Audio version] Throughout my adult life I have tended to describe the thing to which I am primarily opposed as “capitalism”. Over the last couple […]
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Divide, rule and profit: the intersectional impact racket
One of the most important insights of authentic anarchist philosophy is that the human species is one entity. Its rich and necessary diversity, we insist, […]
Rob Hopkins: a transition to what?
Rob Hopkins has become one of the iconic figures of the environmental movement, not just in the UK but throughout the world. “There’s no one […]
Gilets Jaunes: unfiltered anti-capitalism
As part of my journalistic work with Shoal Collective, I have been speaking to some of the people involved in the Gilets Jaunes movement near […]
Wanted: a real opposition to capitalism
I have to admit that I sometimes feel ideologically dislocated from prevalent thinking in anarchist circles. Although I have no quibbles with most struggles and […]
Capitalism is built on violence and lies
The biggest, ugliest truth hidden at the core of the capitalist system is that it is built on violence. This is something that it never […]
The new French resistance
Something very important is happening in France at the moment. The immediate catalyst for this historical turning-point has been the murder, by gendarmes, of a […]
Imprisoned by assumptions
Assumptions are the highest walls of the prison in which the human spirit is currently confined. The most pernicious assumption of all is that industrial […]
Save the Cévennes!
Resistance is growing to a threat facing one of the most important expanses of forest in western Europe. German energy firm E.ON has signed a […]
Civilization is another word for capitalism
“Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization”. These were the […]