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Drupal, improvised music, communism, beer. Not in that order.
The most likely outcome is a wrongful arrest settlement paid out in about 3-10 years and no action taken against any police officer. c.f. every previous time they've done something similar.
September 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The most likely outcome is a wrongful arrest settlement paid out in about 3-10 years and no action taken against any police officer. c.f. every previous time they've done something similar.
The reason that protesters don't get massacred in the US is because the state is traditionally very worried about what the response would be if that happened. It's not benign institutional protection of the public but fear of repercussions if certain lines were crossed.
June 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The reason that protesters don't get massacred in the US is because the state is traditionally very worried about what the response would be if that happened. It's not benign institutional protection of the public but fear of repercussions if certain lines were crossed.
They controlled Ed Miliband's policy programme when he was leader, and also have close ties to Rachel Reeves. It's not about 'appealing to voters', rather they ventriloquise voters in order to push their own reactionary politics. It's only a faction of the higher echelons of the Labour Party.
May 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
They controlled Ed Miliband's policy programme when he was leader, and also have close ties to Rachel Reeves. It's not about 'appealing to voters', rather they ventriloquise voters in order to push their own reactionary politics. It's only a faction of the higher echelons of the Labour Party.
Given mRNA cancer treatments coming through in the past couple of years it'd probably cost less.
March 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Given mRNA cancer treatments coming through in the past couple of years it'd probably cost less.
Various Grayzone guys and also Vijay Prashad have been pro '56 crackdown for some years now.
March 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Various Grayzone guys and also Vijay Prashad have been pro '56 crackdown for some years now.
Didn't the SP support his leadership campaign? Probably some others too.
March 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Didn't the SP support his leadership campaign? Probably some others too.
There's a non-zero chance these are fascists adopting a vegan persona rather than vegan fascists, although I guess the only real distinction between those two things would be their actual diet so there is no way to find out.
March 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
There's a non-zero chance these are fascists adopting a vegan persona rather than vegan fascists, although I guess the only real distinction between those two things would be their actual diet so there is no way to find out.
From the same archive but different authors. More critical but definitely identifies the separatist movement as far right libcom.org/article/east...
Eastern Ukraine conflict: against the regime in Kiev and the junta in the east - Autonomous Workers Union
As Ukraine slides towards civil war, anarchist group Autonomous Workers Union appeals to the working class to reject both sides and instead fight for their common class interests.
libcom.org
March 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
From the same archive but different authors. More critical but definitely identifies the separatist movement as far right libcom.org/article/east...
There were reports at the time. I think this one is fairly pro libcom.org/article/libe... but also there was more critical stuff that also took it and the reaction seriously.
'Libertarian in spirit': the left and Maidan
Activists met in Kyiv to discuss the lessons of their participation in the Maidan movement. This report is by Kirill Buketov of the Global Labour Institute. We do not necessarily agree with its conten...
libcom.org
March 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
There were reports at the time. I think this one is fairly pro libcom.org/article/libe... but also there was more critical stuff that also took it and the reaction seriously.
One of the Spiked/Jacobin crossover crowd.
February 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
One of the Spiked/Jacobin crossover crowd.
Also not sure it needs to be a future utopia. Like they could say if trillions of people experience happiness for one day each that's worth tens of billions of people experiencing starvation/dysentary for most of their lives etc.
December 25, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Also not sure it needs to be a future utopia. Like they could say if trillions of people experience happiness for one day each that's worth tens of billions of people experiencing starvation/dysentary for most of their lives etc.
Yes which I think is sufficiently controversial and reactionary?
I mean it's also a blatant cover for extremely short termist things like you described too, same with 'effective altruism' which turns out to mean 'become the top of a pyramid scheme'.
I mean it's also a blatant cover for extremely short termist things like you described too, same with 'effective altruism' which turns out to mean 'become the top of a pyramid scheme'.
December 25, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Yes which I think is sufficiently controversial and reactionary?
I mean it's also a blatant cover for extremely short termist things like you described too, same with 'effective altruism' which turns out to mean 'become the top of a pyramid scheme'.
I mean it's also a blatant cover for extremely short termist things like you described too, same with 'effective altruism' which turns out to mean 'become the top of a pyramid scheme'.
'longtermism' in this context means for Musk e.g. space colonisation which then justifies any amount of carnage on earth if it means people end up living in space colonies in the end.
December 25, 2024 at 9:34 PM
'longtermism' in this context means for Musk e.g. space colonisation which then justifies any amount of carnage on earth if it means people end up living in space colonies in the end.
Doesn't transhumanism also include brain chips and blood harvesting?
December 25, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Doesn't transhumanism also include brain chips and blood harvesting?
The current chancellor of the exchequer said there'd be race riots if immigration didn't come down and wrote an entire glowing chapter about a nazi in her book so it's not as if he's some kind of exception in the Labour Party.
December 15, 2024 at 9:25 AM
The current chancellor of the exchequer said there'd be race riots if immigration didn't come down and wrote an entire glowing chapter about a nazi in her book so it's not as if he's some kind of exception in the Labour Party.