By Cyril Winstanley The UK government has launched its new hashtag, ‘StaySafeSaveLives’. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tweeted, in the know-it-all tone of contemporary social media: “Stay two metres apart. It’s not such a difficult thing. Do it. It really will save lives.” The short imperative sentences with their strong sense of righteousness come from a man who, at […]
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Coronavirus
By Iida K Times of crisis give rise to emergency powers. The main function of these powers is to extend the capacity of the state to control the population. The state is built on one central premise: the provision of security for its population, in exchange for obedience and loyalty. This social contract might at
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Coronavirus
After an escalation of measures to contain the spread of the Coronavirus, Italy has been in full lockdown for a week while a campaign for a “quarantine income” has taken off there. As more countries are implementing social distancing measures, we have translated this text by Eleonora Priori, originally published by NERO editions, partly as
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Coronavirus
By Leopoldina Fortunati On 8 March, Women’s Strike demonstrations were held in Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, London and Plymouth, while massive International Women’s Day mobilisations were taking place across the world. On 9 March, women’s strikes were also held in a number of countries including Chile, Argentina, Spain, and Poland, with the highest turnout
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Feminism
By Gareth Brown and David Harvie. Cover photo credit: Jacob. On the move UCU (University and College Union) is on the move. Less than six years ago, our union’s national leadership was ordering 2-hour strikes. A handful of lecturers plus assorted librarians, technicians, and others stood shivering on the perimeters of campuses in what appeared
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Education Struggles
We’re republishing the following piece as we think its adds some useful stuff to the discussion on community organising. It was published in January in Freedom News, originally posted on the South Norwood Community Kitchen blog. Community kitchens are popping up all around the country and they are truly spaces that can make the world
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Commons
We republish this call, originally posted by Global Project, to participate to the Venice Climate Meeting this spring. As the climate crisis becomes more explicit and brutal, let’s strengthen our transnational connections to challenge fossil capital and extractivism! The latest pictures of Australia on fire and the images of Venice covered by an extraordinary high
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Climate/Ecology
Guest writer Jacob Stringer, housing and social movements researcher, writes about his experiences of community organising. In the wake of an unexpectedly savage general election defeat for the most left wing Labour Party manifesto in a generation, many people are asking ‘what next?’. Along with new leadership for the party and yet another round of
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Counter-power, Strategy
On 9 November, Oslo Against Racism (Oslo Mot Rasisme, OMR) and other anti-fascists carried out a demonstration and blockade campaign against the racist conference Scandza Forum at Sinsen in Oslo. The aim of this action was to prevent the nazis from peacefully planning their genocidal agenda. Unfortunately, the police chose to respond to the action
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Anti-fascism
You might have read our article ‘Universal Disaster’ published in May this year. Well, here’s an update on the ‘progress’ of the Department for Work and Pensions’ nasty and very expensive publicity campaign, designed to convince us that Universal Credit (UC) is a good thing… rather than a deeply punitive welfare benefits system, that creates
Kick Boris Out continues its campaign to oust Boris Johnson from his seat with a street party this Saturday. Along with sound systems and dancing, #FCKBoris activists will be registering people to vote. Their aim is to get thousands of people registered by the 26th November deadline. One activist commented: “We’re joining together to show that Boris
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Actions
Over the last two weeks, mass popular protests have escalated in Chile putting forward demands including the reduction of social inequalities, better, accessible and public welfare services, and a redressing of the rising cost of living. So far, the mobilisations have culminated in the mass countrywide marches of 25 October, in which over three millions
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Inter/Transnational