editorial
Whose Ritz? Our Ritz!
So that was it. We had ‘our’ moment, ‘our’ J18. March 26th was the day that the emerging anti-austerity movement had been waiting for, and there were certainly parallels (both political and aesthetic) to the heydays of the ‘movement of movements’, as little as 10 years ago, when black-clad anarchists turned their backs on the marches of global justice coalitions to smash the windows of McDonald’s, Starbucks and luxury hotels.
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Book Review
More Work! Less Pay! Rebellion and Repression in Italy»
A recent book argues that the time of ‘autonomia’ between 1972 and 1977 in Italy should be treated as a movement with its own and distinct political dynamics
Interview
Blue Labour – “faith, family and dog-whistle politics.” An interview with political theorist Ed Rooksby»Is the working class really as conservative as ‘Blue Labour’ presumes? In this interview, ED ROOKSBY spells out why this is a dangerous and ugly notion.
climate action
Remember, remember: Climate Camp»
In this article we take a retrospective look at the Camp for Climate Action, and SHIFT’s involvement with it.
labour movement
To ‘the movement’: on work and unions in an age of austerity»TOM DENNING looks critically at the role of trade unions within the anti-austerity movement.
crisis
March 26th – The emergence of a new radical subjectivity?»
The explosion of militant activity that escaped the A to B route on March 26th led to the inevitable round of condemnation from both the authorities and the mainstream media, as well as the busy hum of internet debate between those in the direct action/anarchist communities and the wider anti-cuts movement. Here, ALESSIO LUNGHI and SETH WHEELER offer their perspective.
A day in three parts, by NIC BEURET
religion
Anarchism and British Islamism: putting things in perspective»A response by STEVEN JOHNS of libcom.org to Paul Stott’s article “British Islamism: Towards an Anarchist Response”.
antifa
Fascism, fundamentalism, and the left»
PHIL DICKENS argues that nationalist and Islamist ideologies feed off each, in a way the left has not recognised.
student movement
NUS elections: interview with candidate Mark Bergfeld»Ahead of the National Union of Students elections in April 2011, we publish here an interview with the left-wing candidate Mark Bergfeld.
“I doubt Bergfeld has the strategy to win”, says Patrick Rolfe, Really Open University
“Let’s critically support Mark”, says Jess Bradley, Students for Sensible Drug Policy
Summit
“No Messy Politics Please, We’re Anarchists!”»As participants from the No Borders network who took part in the First World People’s Conference on Climate Change in Bolivia, ALICE and YAZ reply to an article that criticised the conference in a previous issue.
