A Heap of Horseshit
A whole bunch of friends, some of whom are self-described anarchists, have been posting a vile article from The Making Progress Blues along with comments blaming individuals as consumers for the...
View ArticleBeaten to the Punch
If I told you that I have a completed article on the false notion of the “unity of the left” completed and lined up to post in March would you believe me? I hope so as Phil over on libcom has just...
View ArticleTwo Dirty Words
There are many branches of political thought to which people subscribe. While some obscure or outdated philosophies still have lip-service given to them in passing during our mainstream education I am...
View ArticleBelarus ABC Infotour comes to Glasgow
On Thursday the 28th of February I’ll be helping host a rare chance to talk with a comrade from the Anarchist Black Cross in Belarus and find out about the reality of life and activism under...
View ArticleA Reply to Joe Rahi
One of the first people to follow me here was Joe Rahi. Go check out their blog. It’s cool, I’ll wait here until you’re done. Right, so you will have noticed that Joe describes themselves as a...
View ArticleMorals, Ethics & State
I had some interesting chat over tea and a snack of baba ganoush with a good friend this week. I always enjoy our thorough yet friendly back-and-forth discussions as we both have very strong political...
View ArticleStand-offish Anarchists
The unity of the left is a strange beast that often rears it’s confused head, telling anarchists that we have to come play nicely alongside the political parties and representative trade unions of the...
View ArticleLooks like we’ve got ourselves a live one!
In my recent article about Anarchist Communism I touched very briefly upon some political philosophies that claim themselves as anarchist but can be easily demonstrated to be anything but. One of these...
View ArticleTactical Critique of the Radical Independence Conference, 2012
(This is a repost of an article that originally appeared on the Glasgow Anarchists blog. I’m reposting as my planned writing schedule has taken a back-seat this week to some unplanned drama. Note to...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Revolt
“There are, however, some things that a revolutionary organisation can do that would be far less likely to happen without it. Anarchist communism is a living working class tradition, but there are...
View ArticleThe Fundamental Requirement for Organised Safer Space
This article will be a very basic introduction to the foundations of safer spaces, community accountability and transformational justice that arise from elements present from the very inception of...
View ArticleThe Nature of a Blockade
(I have written a follow-up to critically examine the ableism and the lazy analysis I feel I slipped into this post. It can be found here. The text bellow remains unchanged to properly document the...
View ArticleSpanish Civil War Tour, Barcelona
Website | Costs 20 Euro per person I really don’t want to spoil anything, however this three-hour winding route through the heart of Barcelona at the time of the revolution is an absolute must. The use...
View ArticleA Look at Militant Political Action
Political action is where those with an issue and their allies attempt a remedy to the situation that relies on an outside group (usually those causing the problem) undertaking some further change on...
View ArticleAntifascism for Beginners
I was recently asked why anarchists that take physical action against fascists were not just as bad as those they targeted. To illustrate my answer I’m going to I’m going to “scrub off the serial...
View ArticleUnspoken Arguments
There are some positions on issues that are implicitly against the dominant views in society that when mentioned automatically begin an unspoken argument with those aren’t on board already: Veganism:...
View ArticleQueer Anarchism: Equality or Liberation? Recording from Dublin Anarchist...
A talk looking at the differences between the mainstream LGBT politics of equality and the radical queer politics of liberation (via Automatic Writing). Queer Anarchism: Equality or Liberation?...
View ArticlePrivilege, Intersectionality, and the Class Struggle
Before reading this piece I highly recommend reading A Class Struggle Analysis of Privelege Theory from the woman’s caucus of the Anarchist Federation, as the discussions that led up to it being...
View Article“I come to you like the beggar man…”
A review of Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed which first appeared in Organise! #81. When I first sat down to write this review all I could think of saying was along the lines of “The Dispossessed is...
View ArticleGrangemouth and the need for rank-and-file solidarity
This article first appeared in the Autonomy Freesheet #3: There has been a lot of speculation about how ready and willing workers at Grangemouth have been to take industrial action. Looking at the...
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