The Death Machine
The Death Machine is an enormous and ever-expanding apparatus which today covers vast swathes of the surface of the Earth. Its task is to suck […]
industrialism
Sombre truths behind bright green lies
To discern ugliness requires a sense of beauty. To name darkness involves knowing light. And to correctly identify lies demands a grasp of truth. It […]
End industrialism or humankind dies
Opposing capitalism as a whole, including the industrialism which enables it to expand and dominate, is not a very popular position to take. Even at […]
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 […]
To escape from capitalism, we need to dig further and deeper!
Imagine that you are being held captive in a prison camp and that, with some fellow detainees, you are trying to escape. In order to […]
Henry Miller – resisting the virus of modernity
The American writer Henry Miller (1891-1980) is not primarily remembered as a critic of industrial civilization – he is better known, maybe, for his love […]
Anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-industrialism
One of the most annoying terms in the political dictionary is “anarcho-capitalism”. It’s annoying because it describes something that does not exist, cannot exist. I […]
Balcombe and Beyond: The UK’s Frack Free Movement
Over the last couple of years the anti-fracking movement in the UK has become a force to be reckoned with – and a sign of […]
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 […]