DOPE

AUGUST 21. 2025

Vendor interview: Captain

So I was really lucky, it was my 30th birthday, now I’m 38. Two days later, this guy was unloading the van . And he said “you know what guys, you guys might like this, this is cool stuff, this is DOPE, man. And we’re just giving it out to people so they could just earn something. ”

Disarming the war state

I n the cockpit of the Hawk Jet lay a number of unusual objects: a VHS tape, an A4 pamphlet, and a calling card with the names of four women - Andrea Needham, Joanna Wilson, Lotta Kronlid, and Angie Zelter - under "Seeds of Hope: East Timor Ploughshares" and the words "Women Disarming

Inside the nitazenes crisis

For the past two years, the UK has been in the midst of an invisible health crisis caused by nitazenes, a group of powerful synthetic opioids which can be up to 500 times stronger than heroin and ten times stronger than fentanyl.

Free Buses!

When Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old state assemblyman and self-described democratic socialist, decisively won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City in June 2025, the entire liberal establishment lost their shit. The authorities reached for their fainting hankies, and the insinu

Mutual Aid as Resistance in Sudan and Congo

T he downstairs two floors of the global bank UBS's 13-storey headquarters lie empty. In the City of London, this space – dubbed a 'double-height reception' – is barren of activity. Except for the morning, lunch and evening rush hours, this space's predominant captives are bored-looking security g

Bullshit Space in Capitalism’s core

T he downstairs two floors of the global bank UBS's 13-storey headquarters lie empty. In the City of London, this space – dubbed a 'double-height reception' – is barren of activity. Except for the morning, lunch and evening rush hours, this space's predominant captives are bored-looking security g

Prisoner Writing: How and Why

I n an era marked by using social media and instant messaging to talk to each other, there is something quite beautiful about sitting with a group of people writing letters. What makes it even more beautiful and important is that we are writing to prisoners.

Masafer Yatta: Holding Ground Under Occupation

Masafer Yatta sits at the southern edge of the West Bank. Spread across multiple villages and hamlets, the rugged landscape, characterised by deep swaying valleys of limestone rock and topped with little vegetation, is home to just a few thousand Palestinians. As a rural community, many residents li

MAY 15. 2025

The War on Disabled People

My parents brought me to a dingy Council building in Lanarkshire for my first assessment. I’ve been disabled since birth, but prior to turning 16, the questions were directed to my mum and dad as my primary caregivers. Now, as an ‘adult’, according to the Department of Work and Pen

‘… Do They Think Guitars and Microphones are Just Fucking Toys?

On the 4th of September 1976, the Sex Pistols made their television debut, performing Anarchy in the UK on a late-night music show. Before the first chords were even struck, a young Johnny Rotten, all nervous energy and bile, stared directly into the came

The past & future of scottish fascism

On 7 September, 2024, fascists in Glasgow staged their most successful demonstration in decades, gathering a few hundred flag-waving and Hitler-saluting specimens of the 'Aryan race' under Union Jacks, St. Andrew's Crosses, Red Hands of Ulster, and even a

Vendor interview: Trolley

How long have you been selling the magazine for? About two and a bit years. A little bit more, maybe? And what got you into it? How did you hear about it? I knew a guy up in Highbury. He was one of the first people I saw with it, and I remember him saying to me one day, “The on

A report from Rojava

Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria in December 2024, the future of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava, remains uncertain. While there is no shortage of geopolitical analysis about the situation, one crucial voice is

Mutual aid in Lebanon

Tyre, in Lebanon's south, is a city of ancient and recent ruins. Around every corner, you'll find new apartment blocks twisted inside out by bombs. Plushly decorated front rooms are exposed to the air, sometimes with pictures still on the wall, their inner columns leaning at drunken angles.