New Future

Various unions and organisations joined the protest in Xixón against the bakery workers’ conviction ~ Guillermo Martínez, La Marea ~ Following the court’s refusal to suspend their sentences, the streets of Xixón once again chanted, “the Suiza 6 will not go to prison”. The protest on Sunday drew around 8,000 people,

This lucid and passionate documentary about Palestine Action is well worth viewing before Starmer’s “social democrats” censor it ~ Rob Ray ~ I can certainly see why the makers of To Kill A War Machine are worried that proscription of the subject of their documentary, Palestine Action , will turn into a ban for them

The proposed ban, rooted in colonial counter-insurgency law, could end up demystifying direct action and increasing public resolve ~ Blade Runner ~ This week, the UK Parliament is expected to approve the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000. This follows the group’s recent breach of RAF Brize Norton, where activists sprayed red

Marijam Did’s sharply-observed and well researched dive into the politics of gaming fills a major gap in how the Left has approached the subject ~ Rob Ray ~ A distinction often made by progressives in gaming is in the use of the term “gamer”. Many of us avoid applying it to ourselves, because much of

Between Labour’s barefaced militarism and a domesticated peace movement, it falls to anarchists to step up resistance to weapons of mass destruction ~ Ned Skinn’ ~ The patriotic flag-waving and bunting to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day has for now kept our attention away from another upcoming anniversary—that of the dropping of atomic bombs

Fifteen years on, one of the women who blew the lid off the Spycops scandal talks to Freedom about her political insights — and what the Undercover Policing Inquiry has revealed about the workings of the British secret state ~ Interviewed by Uri Gordon ~ You’ve just launched your book Disclosure, how did it go?

The Assisted Dying Bill cleared the House of Commons in the same week the government confirmed its commitment to slashing financial support for disabled and chronically-ill people ~ punkacademic ~ The Labour government’s commitment to finish the job started by its Tory and Liberal Democrat predecessors has taken vivid form in the proposed cuts to the health

Labour’s desire for authority comes from an instinct to prove they can manage the workers best ~ Jon Bigger ~ Two themes have been ever-present in Labour Party history. The first is an elitist view of the working class, in which the best voices, the most intelligent and responsible voices, will be found at the

This decision is part of a campaign by the British state to quell direct action movements ~ James Horton ~ Palestine Action, it was announced on Friday, is set to become a proscribed group. The announcement was made less than twenty four hours after the group broke into RAF Brize Norton, “decommissioning two military aircrafts”.

The government’s attempt to brand non-violent direct activists as “terrorists” has already backfired ~ Tabitha Troughton ~ This was the week when language in the UK temporarily gave up. At the bombing of Iran, the British people fell silent, or lapsed into incoherence, or sat in corners, clutching their heads. Trump and Netanyahu were classifiable,

It’s back, it has another excuse, and it’s still an extraordinarily bad idea ~ Rob Ray ~ In a very specific, eye-rolling-and-muttering-obscenities sort of way, there’s something almost comforting about the reliability of the civil service in its attempts to apply political

Air base linked to UK and US complicity with Israeli genocide in Gaza ~ Stanton Cree ~ Palestine Action say its activists entered RAF Brize Norton, the largest air force base in Britain, and damaged two Airbus Voyager military planes. In a press release the group said two activists broke in using electric scooters, and

Even more predictable than the rise of fascism around the globe has been its sharp descent into infighting and bickering ~ Sourdough ~ The coalitions that had propelled the far right resurgence have begun to break down. With Elon Musk’s recent split from Trump, the tech right is acting like a microcosm of how fascism,

The slippage from containing WMDs to calls for regime change rings all too familiar — but wars’ main function is still to preserve regimes ~ Simon, Andy and Uri discuss this weeks headlines, including the scorching weather, the mountain-to-molehill cheapening of terrorism charges, direct action in Germany, and ruling-class realignment in Britain and the USA