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ARTICLES

From the Editors
Thoughts on Antisemitism

Thoughts on Antisemitism

Twitter is aflame once again with fiery accusations of antisemitism. As if we hadn’t all enjoyed the thoroughly edifying earlier instalments of this particular three, five, ten-act play? Forgive my cynicism but my initial reaction to this and previous variations on this theme is that many involved...
From the Editors
Corbyn’s Labour Party: Inside and Out

Corbyn’s Labour Party: Inside and Out

The last week has certainly changed the political landscape in Britain for at least the next generation. My aim here is not to discuss the referendum or to try to summarise the many implications of the result. Instead, like many other discussions and pieces of writing right now, this piece will, at...
News
Gràcia: A Community Fights Back

Gràcia: A Community Fights Back

Didn’t they learn anything from the attempted eviction of Can Vies two years ago, and the popular response that ensued? Have they not yet understood that when you attack the autonomous fabric of a neighbourhood in a city like Barcelona, it will cause the underlying the social, political and economic...
How-To Guides
Evictions & Bailiffs

Evictions & Bailiffs

Click Image for High-Resolution PDF Resisting an eviction is a last resort, not a long term solution, giveing you time to organise alternative accommodation. If facing eviction, other pressure needs to be applied to keep people in their homes or find new ones, including entering homeless applications...
Artwork
Migration Maps

Migration Maps

In 2013, Group 484 invited several artists to work with asylum seekers in an asylum centre near the village of Bogovadja, near Valjevo. At that time, the number of migrants in Serbia was not nearly as large as it is today. The issue of migration, except in the narrow circles of activists and individual...
Environment
The Failures of Atmospheric Commodification

The Failures of Atmospheric Commodification

“The rush to make profits out of carbon-fixing engenders another kind of colonialism.” Introduction We’re all familiar with the ongoing planetary biocrisis. Global temperatures are predicted to rise by 4°C by 2100, with recent research warning of a 6°C rise by 2100, a far cry from the 2°C...
Gender
Gendered Antagonisms

Gendered Antagonisms

All expressions of gender non-conformity are antagonistic, especially trans femininity. Gender antagonisms aren’t always brash. It’s defiant to take up physical space as a woman or a femme; it’s confrontational to wear nail polish as a man or a masc. Daily antagonisms are both empowering and tend...
Political Theory
We Don’t Share Anything

We Don’t Share Anything

Critiquing Corbyn: capitalism isn’t about sharing There was much hype over Jeremy Corbyn’s successful campaign to lead the Labour Party. What has been largely absent from the debate is an evaluation of Corbyn’s economic ideas and assumptions. In The Economy in 2020, Corbyn set out...
Society
Education Not Surveillance

Education Not Surveillance

New duties, flawed concepts On 1 July 2015, a new legal duty was placed on schools and early years and childcare providers to have ‘due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’. The revised statutory guidance stipulates that ‘being drawn into terrorism includes not...
Praxis & Protest
Reparatory Justice

Reparatory Justice

PARCOE is a grassroots alliance working in Europe to amplify the voices of Afrikan Communities of Reparations Interest all over the world. For us in PARCOE, there are spatial dimensions to reparatory justice for people of Afrikan heritage. According to political geographer Edward Soja, ‘spatial (in)justice...
Society
The Lure of ‘Frozen’ Racism

The Lure of ‘Frozen’ Racism

“I know the whole House will want to join me in marking Holocaust Memorial Day. It is right our whole country should stand together to remember the darkest hour of humanity. Last year, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, I said we would build a striking national memorial in London...
Political Theory
Afro-pessimism & the End of Redemption

Afro-pessimism & the End of Redemption

The expanding field of Afro-pessimism theorises the structural relation between Blackness and Humanity as an irreconcilable encounter, an antagonism. One cannot know Blackness as distinct from slavery, for there is no Black temporality which is antecedent to the temporality of the Black slave. Civil...
Announcements
Fundraising / New Directions

Fundraising / New Directions

This publication has been around since 2011, in one form or another. For the past three years we have been propped up financially by a few large donations that have allowed us to print the past several issues. The printing costs for this current issue will take us to the very bottom of our piggy-bank,...
Editorial
Editorial: March 2016

Editorial: March 2016

We are living through times of emboldened reaction, where far-right politics gain ground in European Parliaments and on European streets, where the mainstream right increasingly overlaps with the KKK and white supremacy shows itself more unabashedly. As people who seek the abolition of capital, the...
Full Issue
OT29 // March 2016

OT29 // March 2016

The central theme of this issue, pulling together much of the visuals and written content, revolves around questions of colonialism, “race”, and racism, both their formation and continuation into the present day.  ...
 
 


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