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THE NORWICH RADICAL – AUGUST 2025 ISSUE
Welcome to the August 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The world continues to heat up in an all-too literal sense, and another scorching Northern hemisphere summer has brought the heat of oppress…
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Another scorching Northern hemisphere summer has brought the heat of oppression – and the fire of outrage and protest – to many parts of the world. Our August 2025 Issue looks to the past, and to the small things, to find hope.
From the archive (2018)
Perhaps what we need is not a white poppy, nor a red poppy, but a black poppy – a poppy that signifies internationalism and solidarity, recognition that all lives are of equal value and rejection of state militarism.
Perhaps what we need is not a white poppy, nor a red poppy, but a black poppy – a poppy that signifies internationalism and solidarity, recognition that all lives are of equal value and rejection of state militarism.
RED POPPIES VERSUS WHITE POPPIES (AND THE PROBLEM WITH PACIFISM)
By Sarah Edgcumbe The red poppy/white poppy/no poppy debate has become increasingly emotive in recent years, as certain right wing groups have co-opted it for their own warped ethno-nationalist cau…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
From the archive (2018)
Perhaps what we need is not a white poppy, nor a red poppy, but a black poppy – a poppy that signifies internationalism and solidarity, recognition that all lives are of equal value and rejection of state militarism.
Perhaps what we need is not a white poppy, nor a red poppy, but a black poppy – a poppy that signifies internationalism and solidarity, recognition that all lives are of equal value and rejection of state militarism.
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This is a huge win. They wanted a weekend of hate, recruitment and fundraising and instead they were shut down by people like you.
They’ll try again and when they do, we’ll be ready. Thank you for standing with us.
They’ll try again and when they do, we’ll be ready. Thank you for standing with us.
September 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is a huge win. They wanted a weekend of hate, recruitment and fundraising and instead they were shut down by people like you.
They’ll try again and when they do, we’ll be ready. Thank you for standing with us.
They’ll try again and when they do, we’ll be ready. Thank you for standing with us.
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You did it. The neo-Nazi gig planned for Great Yarmouth has been CANCELLED. ❗
Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.
Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.
September 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
You did it. The neo-Nazi gig planned for Great Yarmouth has been CANCELLED. ❗
Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.
Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.
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First published on @wearequeeraf.com the @thenorwichradical.com looks at how adult content restrictions are paving the way for more anti-LGBTQIA+ content censorship 👇
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RESTRICTIONS ON PORN AREN’T DESIGNED TO PROTECT CHILDREN
By Rowan Gavin Between the increasing dominance of major platforms, the rise of so-called ‘AI’ services, and the spread of platform decay maximising profits over user experience, we’ve all seen the…
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August 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
First published on @wearequeeraf.com the @thenorwichradical.com looks at how adult content restrictions are paving the way for more anti-LGBTQIA+ content censorship 👇
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Another scorching Northern hemisphere summer has brought the heat of oppression – and the fire of outrage and protest – to many parts of the world. Our August 2025 Issue looks to the past, and to the small things, to find hope.
THE NORWICH RADICAL – AUGUST 2025 ISSUE
Welcome to the August 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The world continues to heat up in an all-too literal sense, and another scorching Northern hemisphere summer has brought the heat of oppress…
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August 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Another scorching Northern hemisphere summer has brought the heat of oppression – and the fire of outrage and protest – to many parts of the world. Our August 2025 Issue looks to the past, and to the small things, to find hope.
Our June 2025 issue is out now! In what is, for many, a summer of struggle, we explore the conflicts and contradictions of our time on scales large and small.
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THE NORWICH RADICAL – JUNE 2025 ISSUE
Welcome to the June 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! This month marks a year since Keir Starmer took power in the UK, and six months since Trump was reinstalled as President in the US. The mechan…
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June 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Our June 2025 issue is out now! In what is, for many, a summer of struggle, we explore the conflicts and contradictions of our time on scales large and small.
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NEMIK: A STAR WARS STORY; OR, REWATCHING ANDOR IN 2025
By Alex Valente
By Alex Valente
NEMIK: A STAR WARS STORY; OR, REWATCHING ANDOR IN 2025
by Alex Valente Contains spoilers for Season 1 of Andor. I have no love for Disney. I have soured on most big franchise properties, including the juggernaut space fantasy that is Star Wars. I am ex…
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March 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
NEMIK: A STAR WARS STORY; OR, REWATCHING ANDOR IN 2025
By Alex Valente
By Alex Valente
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HOUSING JUSTICE IN NORWICH AND GREAT YARMOUTH
From zines published by the Just Urban Alliance
From zines published by the Just Urban Alliance
HOUSING JUSTICE IN NORWICH AND GREAT YARMOUTH
The ideas, values and proposals presented here were originally published in zines by the Just Urban Alliance, a research initiative based at University of East Anglia led by Kavita Ramakrishnan, Ca…
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March 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
HOUSING JUSTICE IN NORWICH AND GREAT YARMOUTH
From zines published by the Just Urban Alliance
From zines published by the Just Urban Alliance
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this is the piece i was mentioning yesterday, and i would love for you to read it
i like this series a lot, and i saw a different story the second time round
i like this series a lot, and i saw a different story the second time round
NEMIK: A STAR WARS STORY; OR, REWATCHING ANDOR IN 2025
By Alex Valente
By Alex Valente
NEMIK: A STAR WARS STORY; OR, REWATCHING ANDOR IN 2025
by Alex Valente Contains spoilers for Season 1 of Andor. I have no love for Disney. I have soured on most big franchise properties, including the juggernaut space fantasy that is Star Wars. I am ex…
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March 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
this is the piece i was mentioning yesterday, and i would love for you to read it
i like this series a lot, and i saw a different story the second time round
i like this series a lot, and i saw a different story the second time round
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With spring in the air, we find courage in smaller things in our March 2025 issue. Check it out for new independent writing on just housing, Nosferatu, the German election and, yes, Star Wars.
THE NORWICH RADICAL – MARCH 2025 ISSUE
Welcome to the March 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! We find ourselves inching closer to spring, a time of renewal, rebirth, and rejuvenation. Many of us are already tired, and have been for som…
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March 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
With spring in the air, we find courage in smaller things in our March 2025 issue. Check it out for new independent writing on just housing, Nosferatu, the German election and, yes, Star Wars.
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"Community is the only antidote to the alienation of capitalism and the re-emergence of fascism"
@alexvalente.fyi drives home the message of hope, but only if we all try. Bit by bit, drop by drop, we will win.
@alexvalente.fyi drives home the message of hope, but only if we all try. Bit by bit, drop by drop, we will win.
NEMIK: A STAR WARS STORY; OR, REWATCHING ANDOR IN 2025
By Alex Valente
By Alex Valente
NEMIK: A STAR WARS STORY; OR, REWATCHING ANDOR IN 2025
by Alex Valente Contains spoilers for Season 1 of Andor. I have no love for Disney. I have soured on most big franchise properties, including the juggernaut space fantasy that is Star Wars. I am ex…
thenorwichradical.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Community is the only antidote to the alienation of capitalism and the re-emergence of fascism"
@alexvalente.fyi drives home the message of hope, but only if we all try. Bit by bit, drop by drop, we will win.
@alexvalente.fyi drives home the message of hope, but only if we all try. Bit by bit, drop by drop, we will win.
With spring in the air, we find courage in smaller things in our March 2025 issue. Check it out for new independent writing on just housing, Nosferatu, the German election and, yes, Star Wars.
THE NORWICH RADICAL – MARCH 2025 ISSUE
Welcome to the March 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! We find ourselves inching closer to spring, a time of renewal, rebirth, and rejuvenation. Many of us are already tired, and have been for som…
thenorwichradical.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
With spring in the air, we find courage in smaller things in our March 2025 issue. Check it out for new independent writing on just housing, Nosferatu, the German election and, yes, Star Wars.
from the archive (2015)
"There’s a long history of trying to erase class struggle from feminism, and ignoring the working in International Working Women’s day is one way to do this."
"There’s a long history of trying to erase class struggle from feminism, and ignoring the working in International Working Women’s day is one way to do this."
INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN’S DAY — ERASING CLASS STRUGGLE FROM FEMINISM
by Robyn Sands The United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day on the 8th March in 1975, but the day actually has its roots in a variety of strikes and class struggles across industr…
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March 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
from the archive (2015)
"There’s a long history of trying to erase class struggle from feminism, and ignoring the working in International Working Women’s day is one way to do this."
"There’s a long history of trying to erase class struggle from feminism, and ignoring the working in International Working Women’s day is one way to do this."
It is clear that the Trump regime is manifestly unable and unwilling to protect this section of the population itself. Will intervention be required?
(from the archive)
(from the archive)
WHY IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT PUSHING TO ENTER THE US UNDER THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT?
by Sarah Edgcumbe CW: racism, violence, police brutality, suicide I’ll admit, the title of this article is posed in a slightly tongue-in-cheek manner, but the underlying premise points to two concu…
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February 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It is clear that the Trump regime is manifestly unable and unwilling to protect this section of the population itself. Will intervention be required?
(from the archive)
(from the archive)
New year, old fears. It's been a frightening month in many ways, but in our January 2025 issue contributors find new lenses through which to view our troubled worlds. Plus we look back at some of the art that got us through 2024.
THE NORWICH RADICAL – JANUARY 2025 ISSUE
Welcome to the January 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The start of the year is ever a time of potential, a time for the new. And as we’re learning anew at the outset of 2025, the new can …
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January 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
New year, old fears. It's been a frightening month in many ways, but in our January 2025 issue contributors find new lenses through which to view our troubled worlds. Plus we look back at some of the art that got us through 2024.
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Before we begin, a quick hello to our many new followers here! Good news: this is the last issue we will be posting to X/Twitter 🥳
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November 29, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Before we begin, a quick hello to our many new followers here! Good news: this is the last issue we will be posting to X/Twitter 🥳
Keep it locked here on bsky and find us on Mastodon (link below) or Instagram @thenorwichradical, or sign up for our newsletter on our site.
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"The United States...actively partnered with authoritarian regimes across Central and South America to suppress authentic Christianity inspired by liberation theologians", writes @leemarsden.bsky.social in a solid and interesting piece about Gustavo Gutiérrez for @thenorwichradical.com
GUSTAVO GUTIÉRREZ AND LIBERATION THEOLOGY
By Lee Marsden Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of Liberation Theology, died at the age of 96 in Lima, Peru on 22nd October this year. Gutiérrez was one of the most significant radical theologians of …
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November 29, 2024 at 9:28 AM
"The United States...actively partnered with authoritarian regimes across Central and South America to suppress authentic Christianity inspired by liberation theologians", writes @leemarsden.bsky.social in a solid and interesting piece about Gustavo Gutiérrez for @thenorwichradical.com
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my co-editor and i were very proud of this issue, and i would be even prouder if you gave it a read - in your own time of course, but different perspectives on ...stuff are always good
Our November 2024 issue brings you a selection of alternative perspectives on the US election - plus several other pieces which remind us that life goes on, in all its complexity, elsewhere in the world.
THE NORWICH RADICAL – NOVEMBER 2024 ISSUE
Welcome to the November 2024 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The world has not, in fact, ended since last issue – despite an upsetting US election, the continuation of Western-backed genocides …
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November 29, 2024 at 6:27 PM
my co-editor and i were very proud of this issue, and i would be even prouder if you gave it a read - in your own time of course, but different perspectives on ...stuff are always good
Our November 2024 issue brings you a selection of alternative perspectives on the US election - plus several other pieces which remind us that life goes on, in all its complexity, elsewhere in the world.
THE NORWICH RADICAL – NOVEMBER 2024 ISSUE
Welcome to the November 2024 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The world has not, in fact, ended since last issue – despite an upsetting US election, the continuation of Western-backed genocides …
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November 29, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Our November 2024 issue brings you a selection of alternative perspectives on the US election - plus several other pieces which remind us that life goes on, in all its complexity, elsewhere in the world.
Our latest issue will be out tomorrow, Friday 29th November! If you're subscribed, you will received the digest directly in your inbox, but all articles will be uploaded and available for free - as always - on the main site!
The Norwich Radical
A progressive analysis of politics and the arts.
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November 28, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Our latest issue will be out tomorrow, Friday 29th November! If you're subscribed, you will received the digest directly in your inbox, but all articles will be uploaded and available for free - as always - on the main site!
We’re looking for pitches for our next issue, due to be published at the end of November. If you have a perspective on the upcoming elections in the US or elsewhere, or any piece of radical writing you’d like to see published, contact us on thenorwichradical@gmail.com
October 14, 2024 at 10:55 PM
We’re looking for pitches for our next issue, due to be published at the end of November. If you have a perspective on the upcoming elections in the US or elsewhere, or any piece of radical writing you’d like to see published, contact us on thenorwichradical@gmail.com
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anyway, i was angry when i wrote the intro to this issue of @thenorwichradical.com, i am angry most of the time, and i hope you're finding a spark of joy in whatever ashes are left out here
Welcome to the September 2024 issue of The Norwich Radical! We have a selection of long reads and reviews ready for you to cosy up with as we move into another Northern Hemisphere autumn 🍂🍂
THE NORWICH RADICAL – SEPTEMBER 2024 ISSUE
Welcome to the September 2024 Issue of The Norwich Radical! Thank you for bearing with us over the summer months as we took a break to recuperate some of our energy, and bring you another full issu…
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October 1, 2024 at 4:50 PM
anyway, i was angry when i wrote the intro to this issue of @thenorwichradical.com, i am angry most of the time, and i hope you're finding a spark of joy in whatever ashes are left out here
Welcome to the September 2024 issue of The Norwich Radical! We have a selection of long reads and reviews ready for you to cosy up with as we move into another Northern Hemisphere autumn 🍂🍂
THE NORWICH RADICAL – SEPTEMBER 2024 ISSUE
Welcome to the September 2024 Issue of The Norwich Radical! Thank you for bearing with us over the summer months as we took a break to recuperate some of our energy, and bring you another full issu…
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September 30, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Welcome to the September 2024 issue of The Norwich Radical! We have a selection of long reads and reviews ready for you to cosy up with as we move into another Northern Hemisphere autumn 🍂🍂
from the archives (2022)
BDS IS MORE IMPORTANT NOW THAN EVER
by Sarah Edgcumbe Between January 1st 2022 and 25th November 2022, Israeli forces killed 199 Palestinian civilians, including 47 children, and at least 15 women. Perhaps the most high profile killi…
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September 28, 2024 at 4:03 AM
from the archives (2022)
from the archives (2020)
WHY IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT PUSHING TO ENTER THE US UNDER THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT?
by Sarah Edgcumbe CW: racism, violence, police brutality, suicide I’ll admit, the title of this article is posed in a slightly tongue-in-cheek manner, but the underlying premise points to two concu…
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September 28, 2024 at 3:59 AM
from the archives (2020)