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Boot Out Boris – Time For A British Revolution
As I write this, Boris Johnson is bouncing yet another dead cat on the desk in the shape of Free School Meals. Unlike other dead cats, such as Operation Moonshot, feeding children is actually real and important. But in the end Boris & Cummings are quite happy to have the media screaming about the issue. […]
Crazy-Right: The Bastard Love Child of Fascists and Conspiracy Theorists
“Garbage in, garbage out” is an idiom I often used in my days working for technology companies. Basically, a computer system is only as good as the information flowing into it. After spending a few hours with anti-lockdown / anti-mask protestors, AKA Covidiots, it’s clear the human brain operates in exactly the same way. For […]
The University of Nottingham and the Return of the Precarious Workers
For students at the University of Nottingham, Monday 21st September was the first day of term. For many precariously employed members of staff it was yet another day of uncertainty. But it was also a day in which precarious workers and students were present and organised on campus, as they called on the University to […]
POW: Empowering Nottingham’s Sex Working Community Since 1990
You may not have heard about POW Nottingham, a local charity based in Radford, but we’ve been here for 30 years. The charity emerged as a response to research into the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980’s and a need to support sex workers in the city in a radical way to stay safe. Over the […]
Spain’s Democratic Transition is Backsliding
Biel Schreuder Obiols discusses the scandals that have exacerbated a crumbling sense of democracy in Spain. Over recent months in Spain, the behaviour of the state has become increasingly outlandish, absurd and sinister. Despite the current government being one comprised of the centre-left Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and the far-left Unidas Podemos (UP), their […]
No Pasaran (But No Thanks to Labour)
Every time the fascists decide to show themselves and walk through our streets, as happened on August 22nd, it presents us (antifascists and antiracists) with a unique opportunity to come into physical contact with them. It’s always good to fight them and shout ‘Nazi Scum’. Their marches allow us to see their banners and faces, […]
A Journalistic Failure
Imagine you are the editor of a city newspaper. A march for “kids & veterans” is planned in your city by someone who has just posted a video making threats to kill Family Court Judges and “wipe out” Antifa protesters. The video is shared on numerous far-right social media channels including those run by far-right […]
In the World of COVID, Technology Is Not Our Friend
In Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, he argues that a pandemic was the best time, for the state, to institute a panopticon on society – a society in which, power could be exercised, not through force or violence, rather via surveillance: “The plague-stricken town, transverse throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town immobilized by […]
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