“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,
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
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
A Contemporary Taxonomy of Britain’s Far Right Anti-fascists need to look at how the far-right has organised in the past and is currently organising if they are to halt the rise of a potentially resurgent far-right. Fascism was imported to Britain
November 8 2001. My grandfather had just brought me home from rugby training. Walking into the living room and seeing my mother’s parents there. The grave looks. Before a word is uttered it’s very clear something terrible has happened. Who’s
The political mural tradition in the northern part of Ireland is over 100 years old. For most of that time, it was confined to one community and overwhelmingly to one theme: the victory of King Billy over King James at
In September 2000, Anthony Browne penned a sobre report for the Observer newspaper entitled “The Last Days of a White World”. Browne, latterly an advisor to Boris Johnson during his time as London mayor and now head of the British
Content Notes: Domestic Violence, Abuse, Substance Abuse I want to share some thoughts on alcoholism as someone who was affected by it, an outsider peering in, but whose life was invariably shaped by it. My father was an alcoholic. He drank
As you likely will have noticed, it’s been a few months since our little collective rolled anything off the printers. That’s because we’ve been busy organising near where we live, and also because we’ve been plotting where we want the
Solidarity in the Struggle Against Psychological Coercion Over the past few years, I’ve been preoccupied with documenting and fighting back against state-sponsored psychological coercion – a form of coercion and manipulation that’s become a central feature of workfare and a