To undo prison culture, we need to reverse exclusionary, utilitarian, capitalist culture. This includes dismantling the school to prison pipeline
Last month’s mass far right demonstration can be linked to a toxic mix of government tolerance of fascism and neoliberalism on steroids
In 2009, the Information Commissioner’s Office raided a clandestine organisation known as the Consulting Association and found 3,200 names on a construction…
The anarchist (broadly speaking) critique of mainstream trade unions is well known, and valid. Big unions are arbiters and enforcers of social…
The first session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) was heard in Barcelona, Spain earlier this month. The RTP is a…
WHEN I got there, the gates of Beit Hanoun hospital were shut, with teenage men hanging off them. The mass of people…
The Palestine Trade and Investment Forum began in London this weekend. Organised on the behalf of UK Trade and Industry and the…
So the count-down begins. ‘Blessed Good Boy’, the literal Arabic translation of ‘Barak Hussein’ Obama is inspiring working class, and his key…
[A speech given to Iraqi unionists at the Occupation Watch Center in Iraq Jan 2, 2004] Salaam aleikum. Greetings to everybody. As…
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