Labour’s summer of turmoil – should we care?
The momentous EU referendum has cast a long shadow over politics this summer. Those architects of austerity, Cameron and Osborne, have gone from office and […]
Class struggle
Learning from the Heathrow 13: Reflections on struggle, repression and prison
The following appeared today on the Bristol Anarchist Black Cross website. I usually don’t read something and agree with every word but this superb article […]
Business as usual…
It has been all of five months since I was last here. The blog has returned. That’s not why this post is called Business as […]
Dare to Dream: this was anarchy 1990
Here’s a rare thing: a documentary about anarchism that treats the movement with respect, not as a bunch of terrorists or soppy idealists. In 1990 […]
Animal Farm at 70
George Orwell’s Animal Farm turned 70 years old last week. The story of farm animals overthrowing human oppression and ruling themselves is the classic political fable […]
The election and its aftermath
This was the 14th election of my lifetime. The earliest I can recall with any clarity was 1979, when I was a sixth form politics […]
Why Labour can’t be trusted: 1) the working class
“Inequality at levels not seen under Macmillan, Heath, Thatcher or Major. Real cuts in the incomes for those at the bottom of the pile. No […]
Flashback: 31 March 1990 – the Poll Tax Riot
Exactly 25 years ago today, the biggest and most famous of all poll tax riots occurred in London. On a mild, sunny afternoon 200,000 people […]
The general election: (1) what anarchists do instead of voting
It couldn’t possibly have failed to escape the attention of anyone living in the UK that a general election is due soon. In fact it’s […]
Bye, bye Beatroot
Spent a few days in London over the past week (which is why this is the first post for a while) and went to Beatroot […]
Hunters still getting away with murder!
Last August and early into the new fox hunting season, a sab was ridden down and seriously injured by Mark Doggrell of the Blackmore and Sparkford […]
An anti-capitalist critique of animal exploitation
Unlike the UK where the grassroots AR movement has moved towards a reformist, pro-party politics stance in recent years, across the water in the rest […]
Hunting Act: 10 years old on 18th November and nobody noticed
Did you know the Hunting Act was 10 years old on Tuesday? I’m usually good with dates but it passed me by completely until I […]
Is hunting the solution to London’s toff problem?
A theme I’ve touched on before is the ruling class’ belief in their destiny to lord it over us, including the right to kill whatever moves on this […]
Saturday 18 October – London rocks to the revolutionary beat!!
There promises to be a hive of radical activity in London this weekend. Saturday the 18th will see the one and only London Anarchist Bookfair […]
A tribute to Loukanikous, the legendary Greek riot dog
As revolutionaries we occasionally wish non-human animals could rise up and fight for themselves. Loukanikous was a dog who did just that. He was a legend […]