New Future

As a new chancellor is inaugurated, German companies are preparing to increase arms production and stop relying on US protection ~ Omar Kardoudi, El Confidencial ~ The geopolitical shift in the landscape brought about by Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House has forced European countries to develop their own defence plans. And moves among

With Reform making big gains in the face of Labour’s sharp rightwards turn and ongoing Tory incompetence, is control of Wales the next stop? Meanwhile the Mayday rallies worldwide are as always a rare bright spot in the general thrust of bad news, and Barclays comes under pressure with spray, wire cutting and general disruption

Some 16,000 members of Colombia’s Indigenous communities were returning home this weekend after attending the capital on International Workers’ Day ~ Rob Latchford ~ The Indigenous collective, known as the minga, had come from the southern departments of Cauca, Nariño, and Putumayo. Members of the Indigenous Guard established an encampment on the grounds of the

Oh garçon, I’d like Enoch-was-right Toryism with even more grifting, please. Yes of course I’ll have the side of self-sabotaging incompetence and unhinged shouting at clouds, that’s the flavour right there. ~ Rob Ray ~ Jordan Tarrant-Short, a man in his 30s who has somehow never quite managed to throw off that Young Tory look,

On Thursday the streets bore witness to demonstrations ranging from mass mobilisations to local acts of defiance to mark International Workers’ Day ~ Alisa-Ece Tohumcu, Rob Latchford ~ From Paris to Athens and from Sao Paolo to Bandung, demands were raised against state violence, exploitation, and capitalist crisis. NANTES Around 10,00 marched for the day

The International Solidarity with Antifascists Collective recently put on a fundraiser gig in South London in solidarity with the anti-dictatorship, anti-fascist struggle in Myanmar ~ Members of ISAC ~ The conflict in Myanmar is often called the “forgotten war” due to the lack of international attention it receives. To raise awareness, we organised the gig and have also made

Editorial from our summer issue, a rare all-colour one, out today with the theme of Our Power – looking at how anarchists and the working class can and have resisted the rightwards ratchet of capitalist politics ~ The issue includes an interview with Toby Shone on prisons and resistance, and retrospectives on Reclaim the Streets,

In Britain, action to divest from genocide is showing no sign of abating, while South Africa is hammering the legal case home at the International Court of Justice ~ Dominic Free ~ “The world has failed Palestinian people. The only certainty they have is that tomorrow will be worse. We must save whatever is left

Ash Sarkar’s discussion of identity politics is coming out during a liberal post-Biden “reassessment”, which some would say is 10 years too late ~ Anonymous ~ Ash Sarkar, of Novara Media and “literally a communist” fame, has written her first book, Minority Rule, whose central thesis employs a double meaning of the book’s title, describing

Action closes two-week peace camp near base for US nuclear bombers ~ Helen Baczkowska ~ Saturday April 26th 2025 saw a blockade of the American military base at Lakenheath in Suffolk—the final action of a two-week long peace camp. The protests aimed to draw attention to the present or future storage of nuclear warheads at