Organise! magazine issue 88 Summer 2017 was out in print in May and is now free to download. Special issue on prisons, plus much more.
Report about comrades arrested on a solidarity demo who were on hunger strike in Turkey since May 24th, 2017, but were released a few days later. The demo was in support of 2 academics who are themselves on hunger strike due to their sacking after the post-coup decree ordered by Erdogan. Photo is of protests following sackings in Feb 2017.
The latest issue (no. 6, May 2017) of London AF’ s paper is out now can be freely downloaded.
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…
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