Gordon Maloney on Organising and Power

A discussion about the different strategies that make up a movement. I’m curious about how to describe you, would you call yourself an organiser? An activist?  I’m pretty relaxed about it. A lot of people feel very strongly about the distinctions between activism, organising, mobilising, campaigning… The way I see it is that you kind […] Source

Reservoir Dogs

Years ago people predicted ‘resource wars’ as natural resources like food and water became more and more scarce due to climate change. We’re in that future now, deep into it, and seemingly oblivious. As weeks of torrential rain is followed by more record-breaking heat, we go on. In Mexico they have elected today Claudia Sheinbaum, […] Source

Farage’s emergency announcement, an emergency for whom?

Nigel Farage is the herpes of British politics, annoying, nasty, and impossible to get rid of. After saying for weeks that he wouldn’t be contesting the general election for his Reform party vanity vehicle, and that Reform would not be doing any deals with the Tories, Farage announced on Monday morning…

Nuclear War, Scotland, and the General Election

On the day when Labour’s Shadow Defence Secretary went on radio to say we can’t rebuild our public services if we don’t have nuclear weapons, David Mackenzie makes the case for peace, and sanity.   Labours shadow defence secretary says we can’t rebuild our public services if we don’t have nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/R5fuKh0ecW — Saul Staniforth […] Source

Direct Action Against Edinburgh’s Leonardo Factory

As the intensity of the attacks on civilians, women and children fleeing to supposedly ‘safe’ territory increases in Rafah, so too does the nature of the protests here. Despite ongoing British intransigence and complicity with the depravity of the Israeli Defence Force, people are standing up and taking a stance as our leaders fail us. […] Source