Free Mubarak Bala #300DaysWithoutMubarakHumanists around the world are gravely concerned for Mubarak Bala the President of the Humanist Society of Nigeria. He has been detained in Nigeria since 28 April 2020. Humanist International has been working to obtain his release and the 22 February was nomin…
10bis, the Israeli branch of the Dutch global food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway.com, is denying its workers their right to unionize. Food couriers have worked tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, risking themselves to keep the food sector alive, and serve the needs of hundreds of thous…
This paper looks into the history of the Edinburgh Unemployed Workers Centre (EUWC) and the struggles of anti-authoritarian revolutionary groups in Edinburgh during the 1980s and early 1990s. Grassroots and direct action oriented groups started to organise together in the early 1980s against the var…
The stakes can sometimes seem trivial, in reality it is not. When it comes to ecology and environmental protection, a good fringe of supporters, often unconscious of capitalism, have invented for a little over a decade a language device that depoliticizes the problem and shifts conflictuality into a…
Itâs hard to image the damage caused to the lives and the mental health of those subjected to âpunishment attacksâ in working class areas of the North unless you or your immediate family members have been directly involved themselves. The majority of those shot or beaten are said to have been…
By MARĂA GALINDOThe Bolivian activist shares this text with MU, which is the product of a class in which it does not proclaim prophetic truths, but rather thinks about the post-pandemic from uncertainty, question, intuition and âtrial and errorâ. The result is a dictionary on the lexicon with w…
The corona virus has been around the world for more than a year. Large parts of public life have been shut down. The capacity of the Dutch health care system is under increasing pressure. While public money is being used to âsaveâ large companies, for years too little money has been spent on hea…
Palestine Information Centre, 20 February 2021The Israeli army on Friday opened floodgates near the eastern borders of Gaza Strip for the second day running flooding hundreds of dunums (124 acres) of Palestinian cultivated land lots.Local sources said that the water devastated vast tracts of land in…
Bows and Arrows: Indigenous Workers, IWW Local 526, and Syndicalism on the Vancouver DocksThe first union on the waterfront of so-called Vancouver was organized by Indigenous workers, mostly Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh. And it was organized on an explicitly syndicalist basis as Local 526 of the Indu…
Only the repeal of the privatization laws and the shielding of public health will prevent the dismantling they are preparing.Almost a year after the start of the pandemic and already in the third wave, the worst omens have been confirmed. While the majority of the population condemns the management…
A Joint Statement by Phulbari Solidarity Group, London Mining Network, Foil Vedanta, Urgewald and XR Asian Affinity NetworkThe London-listed coal mining company, GCM Resources plc, are holding their AGM this year on 25 February but they are pressing forward a pernicious policy that excludes their ow…
The King has no clothes. The authoritarian drift of the state Embat, a Libertarian Organization from Catalonia After the imprisonment of rapper Pablo HasĂ©l for a song against the monarchy, after the violent repression of the protests against his imprisonment, after the totally unpunished demonstrat…
PUBLIC MEETING: No Safety No Work campaign, 24 FebWorkers fight back against Covid injustice: online public meeting, Wednesday 24th February, 7pm Hear from workers who are fighting back against Covid-related attacks from government and employers.Tickets (free) from Eventbrite Link: [] (in personal c…
This is from our comrades in the Edinburgh Green Anti-capitalist Front. âŠa Zine on Queer Feminist Climate Activism. Well worth a read Share this:Like this:Like Loading...
Netpolâs Kevin Blowe argues that Britainâs nascent abolitionist movement needs to focus its energy into long-term grassroots organising, not top-down academic debate.Ever since the rebirth of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, it has been far from clear that the demand to âdefund the pol…
A contemporary document recounting the first ever recorded labour strike, which occured in Deir el Medina, Ancient Egypt during the reign of Ramses III when workers did not receive their rations.The Turin Strike Papyrus (now held in the Museo Egizio, Turin. Cat.1880) is contemporary account of the f…
Encounters Ăcratas: Peasant Struggles in Colombia At 50 years of February 21, 1971.Saturday February 20. 4:00 pm. Facebook live. Libertarian Group Via Libre [] Share this:Like this:Like Loading...
Nazi Germany continues to be a rich topic for filmmakers. There are many complex aspects to that regime and its history. This means it can be approached in many ways from comedy to serious drama. Alone in Berlin (2016) is an example of the latter. It fits within a subset of movies that address oppos…
Is it necessary to repeat here the irrefutable arguments of Socialism which no bourgeois economist has yet succeeded in disproving? What is property, what is capital in their present form? For the capitalist and the property owner they mean the power and the right, guaranteed by the State, to live w…
Spy webcams, time control, keystrokes ⊠With the massive spread of teleworking in 2020, the employers sought solutions for the generalized surveillance of employees with the help of digital companies.Surveillance at work is nothing new. The working class has long been subjected to wardens, foremen…
On the 27th of January, MPs voted 363 to 267 to remove restrictions put on the Covert Human Intelligence (Criminal Conduct) Sources Bill. Restrictions had been put on the bill by the House of Lords, these restrictions removed from the bill the legal right to commit serious crimes such as murder, tor…