Two different paths to world peace?

Erich Mühsam and Bertha von Suttner, anarchist antimilitarism and organised pacifism ~ Bernd Drücke, ZivilCourage ~ The Civil Courage editorial team asked me to outline Erich Mühsam’s anarchist-antimilitarist positions and to demonstrate the differences between pacifism and anarchist antimilitarism. I would like to answer this question with the help of Mühsam and another historical figure:

Farts, flags, and the melting black blob of UK politics

While Starmer flashes his moral void and Farage gets a BBC fluff job, the people carry on fighting ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ For UK comedy, these days one has to depend on the promotional videos still scuttling out from the Prime Minister’s office, like perky little cockroaches. In the recent attempt to launch “Phase 2”

Police Fail to Arrest Two-Thirds in Biggest-Ever Protest Against Palestine Action Ban

Over the course of eight hours, the Metropolitan Police only managed to arrest around one-third of the approximately 1,500 protesters holding signs expressing support for proscribed group Palestine Action. Elderly and disabled demonstrators were carried away to the disgust of crowds. Harriet Williamson reports.

How National Self-Sufficiency Became a Goal of the Right

What looks like Trump-era economic nationalism has deeper roots. German nationalists of the 1800s and fascist leaders of the 1930s imagined power through autarky — national self-sufficiency — with consequences that stretched from tariffs to conquest.

Britain’s Trade Unions Are Turning on Keir Starmer

The election for general secretary of UNISON, Britain’s biggest trade union, pits a faithful ally of Keir Starmer against a left-wing challenger who was expelled from the Labour Party by his factional minions. It could be Starmer’s next big headache.

Mamdani Offers Support for Fired CUNY Professors at Brooklyn College Rally

Zohran Mamdani denounced the firing of four CUNY faculty for pro-Palestine activism. This highlights the strength of the movement students, faculty, and staff have been building. Now is the time to bring more people into the fight against repression.

Forget Movement-Building – the New Party Should Be the Ukip of the Left

Some have argued that Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s new initiative should build its own institutions. Really, it should focus on influencing popular discourse and existing power structures - just like Ukip did, writes Lewis Bassett.

SCO Summit Highlights China’s Challenge to U. S. Power in Asia

Talks at the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in China reveal the intensifying competition between world powers in a moment of unstable capitalist equilibrium.