Why the British elite is losing it’s sense of control, and what that might mean for the rest of us.
The Tories have found their election slogan. The words ‘strong and stable leadership’ will be stuck on repeat for the next month, but so far there has been something off in the Tories’ delivery of their core message. Theresa May seemingly can’t end a sentence without some form of the words ‘strong and stable leadership’. The compulsion to keep repeating the mantra betrays an obsession with the words that go beyond the usual parroting of meaningless sound-bites. The Tories addiction to the slogan feels like an unconscious over-compensating. They have to say the words constantly because they know that actually these times are not stable, and they simply can not offer anything, let alone strong leadership. [continues]
Belarus state response to protests against a ‘social parasite’ tax on the employed has resulted in 100s of detentions, including anarchists. This article explains the background of the decree introduced in 2015 and the current events in 2017, and includes an appeal for support from Belarus ABC.
Anarchists in countries where International Women’s Day is celebrated (March 8th) actively point out its hypocrisy under Capitalism. The March issue of the Turkish anarchist newspaper Meydan is being published by anarchist women. They asked women anarchists internationally for contributions in support of this. AF’s gender-oppressed caucus wrote this statement.
What London AF have been up to recently Several street distributions of Resistance and Rebel City. Yesterday 5 of us distributed Rebel City in Bethnal…
London AF Discussion Meeting The Police and State Violence We look at the role of the police and revolutionary alternatives to them in the context…
Two articles with anarchist perspective on the new USA presidency, by AF members.
1 ) Whoever you vote for? Trump and anarchism.
2 ) Trump: New Possibilities.
Surrey and Hampshire AF had a well-attended meeting in Dorking on Saturday January 7th where there was a discussion on the state of the anarchist…
Read London AF’s 12-page paper Rebel City online. The latest issue No. 5 is hot pff the press and back issues are all free to download. Print copies are also available from London AF or can be found in local radical bookshops and social centres.
Monthly Libertarian Socialist Discussion Meetings Organised by Leicester group of the Anarchist Federation Meetings take place at 7pm on the last Wednesday of the month…
“Besides the law of Mutual Struggle there is in Nature the law of Mutual Aid, which, for the success of the struggle for life, and…
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