From Brighton Antifascists Thousands of Tommy fans attended Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s march on Saturday the 1st of June. The event was allegedly a protest against ‘two tier policing’ – that well-known bias that cops have against right-wing white men and their habit of favouring Muslims and pro-Palestine…
Lambert here: Wait a minute. Cartels… “consumer welfare”… Reminds me of something, can’t quite put my finger on it…. By Marit Hinnosaar, Assistant Professor University Of Nottingham, and Toomas Hinnosaar, University of Nottingham Economic Theory Centre. Originally published at VoxEU. Social…
Yellowstone National Park’s oldest wolf gave birth to 3 pups this spring Scripps (Furzy Mouse) Governors and Heads of Supervision reiterate commitment to Basel III implementation and provide update on cryptoasset standard Bank of International Settlements Financial capital is not scarce, so why do…
Yves here. Putin volunteered in a recent interview that it was odd that Raisi took his fatal trip in an old American helicopter, which due to sanctions would be difficult to maintain, while the other two helicopters that made the same trip were fairly new, well-kitted out, Russian made birds. By John…
An opaque legal ruling could, in a roundabout way, soon halt all pipeline deliveries of Russian gas to Austria – and therefore Italy. Coupled with the ongoing disruptions in the Red Sea, the economic consequences for Europe’s second-largest industrial location could be dire. In late May, an undisclosed…
This week, a few selections from Jean Baudrillard’s The Transparency of Evil. We’ll read “The Hell of the Same”, “The Melodrama of Difference”, “Irreconcilability” (pp. 113-145), “The Declination of Wills”, and “The Object as Strange Attractor” (pp. 164-174). See you soon.
As we barrrel out way towards a general election, Freedom maintains its longstanding position: vote if you like, it’s what we do between elections that mattters. Once again we are barrelling our way towards a general election. Freedom as a collective has of course had roughly the same take on such…
From It’s Going Down [This post only contains information relevant to Philadelphia and the surrounding area, to read the entire article follow the above link.] In this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action…
Like many Generation Y millennials, my first exposure to music came from cassette tapes my parents and older siblings owned. When I discovered punk, I went through various subgenres, and by the time I was 16-17, I found the “chaos not music” scene, thanks to pen pal friends from around the world…
Click here for the pamphlet The Return of Mary Nardini. In the interest of fostering physical print media, the full text is print only. Introduction Like most anarchist women, we know very little about Mary Nardini. She was born Maria Frattesi in 1882 in the Italian village of Pergola, a rural village…
The attempted coup d’etat in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may or may not have been assisted by the CIA, but one of the Americans arrested in the affair is named as a “cannabis entrepreneur“—pointing to the possibility of legal cannabis playing the same destructive role in Central Africa…
Translated excerpt from the French-language book ‘Mémoires‘ (1886), where Louise Michel republished some articles she had contributed to the (unknown to be at the time) police entrapment newspaper, ‘La Révolution Sociale‘ (February 13, 1881), along with her critique of that paper and the police…
Anonymous submission to Unsalted Counter Info. here’s a zine reportback of various encampments on University of Chicago’s campus. Printable version here Full text below: 29-30 April 2024 Northwestern University 2.0??? Uchi’s encampment has been very disappointing. For starters, the community agreements…
This piece is a little bit late to the party, but after reading the other reportbacks published locally and participating in discussions with dear friends and close strangers, we still felt that some ideas were in need of sharing. We don’t wish to recap the events of May Day but hope to contribute…
Note to podcast talkers: You don't need to read the whole thing on the podcast. You're free to do a cold open. Last week we talked about relations without measure. This week we’re counting heads and rationing provisions according to need. Oppression is glaring when it kills, as well as when it deprives…
RCMP shot and killed a man in Mackenzie, British Columbia, on June 1, 2024. The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of BC reports that at around 2:00 PM, police responded to a call regarding a man at a business in the 400 block of Mackenzie Boulevard. The man was arrested but police claim there was…
Join us for an engaging panel discussion, “Solidarity and Action: A Dialogue with Radical Leaders,” featuring prominent members from the Black Panther Party, The Panther Party, and General Strike US. This event promises to be a compelling dialogue about the resurgence of the Black Panther Party…
By Lambert Strether of Corrente Mr Pin smiled humourlessly. “You’ve got stuff on us but, well, between you and me,” he leaned closer, “some of the things we’ve done might be considered, well, tantamount to crimes–“ “All them –ing murders, for a start,” said Mr Tulip, nodding. “Which…
On May 31st, 2024, Critical Mass Orlando again took to the streets. This is a very large family-friendly social ride.
April 30, 2024 A prisoner who escaped the Monroe Correctional Complex, a minimum security prison, was found and arrested Tuesday morning by local authorities after being on the run since Friday morning. Staff members of the prison believed the prisoner, snuck into an office behind the cleaning crew and…
MAPS is delighted to present the 20th issue of The Opening Statement, a free quarterly newsletter that features articles, poetry, political writing and opinion pieces, as well as other relevant pieces by non-incarcerated authors. OPENING STATEMENT – SPRING 2024 (CLICK THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD PDF) ARTICLES…
Myanmar is a country bordered by India, China, Thailand and Laos. Dr Maung Zarni, a Myanma academic, described racial capitalism inherited from the British, who are pioneers of apartheid. Two key banks that were involved in the colonisation are Lloyds and Barclays. Dr Zarni described the internal Balkanization…
The IWWs Annual Conference 2024 brought together Fellow Workers (FWs) for a packed weekend of education, organisation and discussion in Bristol. This year’s conference had a very international flavour. FWs from all over Britain and Ireland were joined by Wobs from Austria, Cyprus and Germany. The conference…
On Wednesday 29 May we reoccupied the Anarchist Steki Utopia A.D. where we held the planned event on the book presentation of the interview of the anarchist nihilist Alfredo Cospito in the anarchist Italian newspaper Vetriolo, a telephone intervention and an information from an Italian comrade about…
Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) it says. Climate & Capitalism has received review copies of some of these…
