Starting on Monday 25th November, workers at 60 universties across the UK will take strike action. Steven Parfitt explains the raft of issues that are at stake, including casualisation, gender and ethnicity pay gaps, workload, pay devaluation, and pensions.
UK University Workers Strike Again to Combat Multiple Crises
Lebanese masses are in the streets, demanding change. Proud of their unity, they call it a revolution. However, in this article Ahmed Julien Saade argues that the regime’s corrupt web means the uprising cannot enable any radical change. The author describes the contemporary Lebanese model of oppression, and the measures by which the state anticipates and prevents any meaningful transformation.
‘Fasten your seatbelts, you’re going nowhere’: The Five Pillars of Oligarchic Despotism
Ben Debney argues that anarcho-syndicalist activists are failing to respond adequately to contemporary conditions of capitalist exploitation, especially with regard to globalisation and unpaid labour by care givers in the home.
Solidarity Against Borders is a collective of activists, organisers, and researchers who want to start a conversation around the relations between borders, solidarity, anarchist politics, and the concept of citizenship. In this article they outline their key questions and invite responses, reflections and contributions to this discussion.
Anarchist reflections on migrant solidarity, anti-citizenship and state repression
Rowan Tallis Milligan reviews Good Times in Dystopia (Zero Books 2019) in discussion with author George F. about their thoughts on memoirs, punk and anarchism and what makes Good Times such an important contribution to literature on squatting and radical creative nonfiction.
Taking inspiration from Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michel Foucault and Saul Newman, this poetic text by Teresa Xavier Fernandes draws up an artistic and aesthetic manifesto of ‘the postanarch’.
Reporting from the Philippines, Russ Skelchy documents the murderous impact of Duterte’s ‘wars’ on terror and drugs, as well as the ongoing resistance to this ratcheting authoritarianism from musicians and affected communities.
Shane Little interviews the Editorial Team behind New Syndicalist, a source of worker-led, anti-capitalist theory and strategy founded by members of the Industrial Workers of the World in the UK.
More people have killed themselves in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement (1998) than died as a result of ‘the Troubles’ conflict (1969-1998). This interview and session performance with anarchist musician Kevin Jones addresses the ongoing suicide epidemic and its roots in the civil war. Kevin brings his musical expression and anarchist analysis to bear on the issue with a performance of his song ‘A New War’, as part of this interview with Jim Donaghey. The audio is available to stream directly, with transcript.
‘A New War’ – anarchist musician Kevin Jones on the suicide epidemic in Northern Ireland
Morris Brodie tracks 80 years of historiography on the Spanish Civil War, from caricatures of anarchists as idealistic and/or bloodthirsty (by fascist, liberal and orthodox communist historians) to an ‘anarchist renaissance’ in civil war historiography in the last twenty years. He includes a list of further reading on anarchists in the Spanish Civil War.
Salvaging the Revolution – Anarchist Historiography on the Spanish Civil War
