Freedom — One Liberated Apple at a Time
Colin Todhunter A minor but significant spark of direct action occurred in New York on 15 December. A group of people entered a Whole Foods store (owned by Amazon), took groceries without...
So what’s the REAL point of “Just Stop Oil” protests?
Kit Knightly It seems every day lately there is a new “shocking viral video” of “desperate drivers losing patience with Just Stop Oil”, or some similar phrasing. Something like...
Digital Pound: Have your say on CBDCs in the UK
This month marks the close of the UK government’s “consultation” on the planned digital pound. This is your chance to have your say on plans to introduce a Central...
This Week in the New Normal #58
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
Fighting Off the Encroachment
Paul Cudenec
I belong to that much-maligned breed of people who have spent their whole lives protesting about various things. I have demonstrated – enthusiastically! – against road-building and fracking, against...
Standing Together – Resisting the New Normal
Colin todhunter The US wanted Russia to attack Ukraine. So says Robert H Wade, professor of Global Political Economy at the London School of Economics. And then it brought...
In The Flesh: The Oxford Anti-LTN March
JJ Starky Some protests are torrid affairs. Others can prove enlightening. The march last Saturday in the heart of Oxford was the latter. Attendees rocked up nearly 2 hours...
Above Us the Waves
W Stephen Gilbert The salient point about Cassandra the mythological princess, and Dr Stockmann in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, and Chief Brody in Peter Benchley’s Jaws is...
Conflict is Inevitable
Eddison Flame If you’re anything like me, you’ve been absolutely apoplectic this past week watching the United States orchestrate a coup in Venezuela. It has been truly horrifying to...
Revolutionary Algorithms
Eddison Flame Can you feel it now? Can you feel the changes coming? Can you feel the electricity in the air? Revolution is coming. It is getting really close...
India’s Farmers Plan Mass March to the Nation’s Parliament as Agrarian Crisis Reaches “Civilization Proportions”
Colin Todhunter With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the planet. And yet it is also one of the most...
People’s Assembly: “Academy bill is an attack on democracy”
Written for The People’s Assembly by the Anti Academies Alliance. Michael Gove, his replacement Nicky Morgan and Labour’s Andrew Adonis have claimed for nearly 10 years that converting schools...
