Brighton SolFed – Practical Organising and Reflections

Dec. 24, 2018 by

In June 2017, Brighton Solidarity Federation started a focused campaign against the housing crisis. Our experience living in Brighton has been that of rents rocketing up (an average increase of 18% in 2015, compared to 4.9% nationwide), while conditions were

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

Nov. 17, 2018 by

Molly Smith is a sex worker and activist with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM). She is also involved with SCOT-PEP, a sex worker-led charity based in Edinburgh, which is working to decriminalise sex work in Scotland. Ru

Good News in a Hostile Environment

Jun. 1, 2018 by

Following months of sustained campaigning against the collection and processing of nationality and country-of-birth data by the Against Borders for Children campaign (Schools ABC), the Department for Education announced that it will end its collection of pupil nationality data. This

Dead Canaries

Jun. 1, 2018 by

“Listen to the Hummingbird Whose wings you cannot see Listen to the Hummingbird Don’t listen to me” ~ @riseupnet In late 2016 a Canary died. The US-based Riseup collective – provider of secure email hosting, mailing lists, virtual private networks,

The Abolition of Carceral Forms

Jun. 1, 2018 by

Functional to the way a capitalist state operates, prisons are created and naturalised as commonsensical; framed as a means to guard the public from chaos, disorder and ‘anarchy’. The state (re)defines categories of people and their value politically, economically and

Harm, Abuse & Accountability: A Discussion

Jun. 1, 2018 by

Content Note: This conversation covers many topics, but makes regular reference to discussions of Abuse Dynamics / Harm / Abuse Apologism / Trauma / Sexual Violence base It seems to us that many discussions on harm and accountability fail to

Fuck the SWP: Care & Affinity in Confrontation

Jun. 1, 2018 by

The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) rape scandal emerged several years ago and resulted in hundreds of members resigning from the SWP (including 90% of its student members) over the handling of rape and sexual harassment by the former SWP National

Stigmata

Jun. 1, 2018 by

      Content Note: The following images explicitly concern themes of sexual violence, dealing with the perpetuation of systems of abuse and the re-traumatisation of survivors             Lynsay Hodges | Stigmata (series) | 2017 Both unsettlingly

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Jun. 1, 2018 by

base #3 London, June 2018 Download PDF | Print-Friendly | Screen-Friendly 02 /  Good News in a Hostile Environment Editorial from the base collective – June 2018 – Exploring the ways in which a series of recent victories for extra parliamentary

Meat porters showing support for Enoch Powell after his “Rivers of Blood” speech in 1968.

Race, Class and Borders

May. 2, 2018 by

Following the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump there has been much speculation about the sentiments of the “working class” and if or why they have become aligned to a right-wing politics. It has been argued that the