New Future

Calendars are rapidly filling up, but there should always be time to hang out with comrades, peruse the latest political literature and scheme over a coffee … With the ever-early Derry Radical Bookfair having successfully concluded its ninth outing on February 1st, Cardiff doing well in March and two more events happening this weekend it’s

This month something different: a contribution towards understanding why the appeal of selfishness grips so many people so fiercely ~ Louis Further ~ Right-wing beliefs are ultimately attempts to rationalise and justify selfishness. Fascism, ‘conservatism’, US Republicanism—call them what you will: the differences are essentially procedural. “My needs matter. Yours don’t”. But in order to explain

Despite police ban, preparations continue for Rheinmetall protest camp in Cologne at the end of August ~ Cristina Sykes ~ The camp, running between 26-31 August, combines workshops, discussions and cultural events with protests targeting arms companies across the Rhein-Ruhr region. The Rheinmetall Entwaffnen alliance, formed in 2018, is organising the week-long gathering

The co-producer of the landmark documentary film reflects on its legacy amid today’s challenges ~ Joel Sucher ~ Anarchism in America is the title of a documentary produced way back in 1980; a time when the world was a far different place and the embers of the older strains of the movement —communist, individualist and syndicalist —were

The Chicago Surrealist Franklin Rosemont tapped the subversive energy of popular culture ~ Ryan Bunnell ~ Since its inception, Surrealism has been attractive to anarchists. Its methods and principles speak to us. In surrealism, many anarchists recognise our own hatred of boredom, disdain for the tyranny of positivist rationalism, and our desire to merge art

From LA streets to Salvadorian prisons, the US escalates its war on migrants ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ On the streets of Los Angeles, California earlier this summer, several masked and armed men attempted to kidnap a street vendor in broad daylight. Despite the gang showing no identification to authority, the community knew who they

The state’s crackdown on arms trade protests shows moral pressure is no longer enough—it’s time to target the war machine at its source ~ Kevin Blowe ~ As perhaps it was intended to, the 5 July ban on Palestine Action—the protest group targeting Britain’s complicity in arming Israel, especially through Israeli-owned Elbit Systems UK—has created

He was widely known for his depictions of social struggles in Ukraine and people fighting against the Russian invasion ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ David Chichkan, a Ukrainian anarchist and artist who dedicated 20 years of his life to the struggle, was killed by Russian forces on 9 August in the area near Zaporizhzhia in south

Everyone knows it is too late—but if anything can be salvaged, it’s the knowledge that the people are showing no signs of backing down ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ Up through Westminster tube station, onto the bustling, sun-drenched street, and a smell of stale fat, over to the golden facade of the House of Commons, propped

The results of an election 80 years ago prompted arguments which have familiar, rhyming lines for our modern context. At long last, after its 1930s and 40s slumber, the name Freedom reappeared on the masthead of Freedom Press’s late August 1945 edition, over the headline “Is This Peace? ” Pointing to the economic

As we remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a film the BBC suppressed 20 years later is more relevant than ever ~ Bleart Thaqi ~ Sixty years have passed since Peter Watkins completed The War Game, a film so stark and unflinching in its depiction of nuclear catastrophe that the BBC, who had commissioned it, chose to

To build something better, we need the people this world tried to break ~ Pablo ~ There’s a strange silence across much of radical politics when it comes to neurodiversity—not hostility, just absence. You’ll hear passionate talk about Palestine, climate breakdown, strikes, prisons… But the everyday lives of autistic, ADHD, and otherwise neurodivergent people?

An interview with Anas Arafat from Plant the Land about the importance of emergency common assistance whilst working on longer-term solutions ~ Will B ~ Anas Arafat is a lawyer and longtime humanitarian aid activist based in Gaza. Anas co-founded the Plant the Land Team in 2015 and since then has been working with other

The same logic that obliterates Gaza also demonises migrants in Britain, criminalises dissent, and elevates white nationalist narratives ~ Blade Runner ~ Far-right mobilisation continues across the UK, with protests flaring this weekend in Manchester and Newcastle. In London, a far-right protest was held on Saturday 2 August outside the Thistle Hotel in Barbican, targeting