Fearless Cities

We are delighted to announce that the Fearless Cities summit will be coming to the UK for the first time. It will take place in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, from 1-3 November. Fearless Cities summits are at the heart of the ‘municipalist’ movement to bring about change at the local level by reclaiming the commons, feminising […] Source

Good bye Twitter Musk has killed you

This decision has been brewing for a while now, but it’s time to give up on Twitter, a platform which has now been comprehensively captured by racists, the far right and the culture warriors. Twitter was always problematic, but since it was taken over by controversial billionaire Elon Musk it has…

On Art, War, Festival and Palestine

Arts Workers for Palestine Scotland: An Exploration of Some of Our Work During the Edinburgh Festivals Edinburgh International Festival Arts Workers for Palestine Scotland is actively campaigning for the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) to enter discussions with its long-standing sponsor, Baillie Gifford, regarding their investment practices. We have been sending messages to artists and the wider […] Source

JD Vance, Antinatalism, and Climate Change

In the wake of J D Vance’s childless cat lady comments in reference to Kamala Harris (yes, I am childless and, yes, I have a cat), I keyed the phrase ‘having children is selfish’ into Google. It wasn’t just J D Vance. I’d been talking with my mother about Jennifer Aniston’s reply to his statement, […] Source

English nationalism’s fascist problem

There’s a striking feature of the media’s coverage of the outbreak of far right violence which has overtaken much of England in recent days. For the most part it is being presented as a British issue when it is in fact an English one. The Sunday Times has the headline “Riots…

Let Glasgow flourish against fascism

One of the most alarming and worrying developments in British politics in recent years has been the normalisation and acceptance into the mainstream of far right Anglo-British nationalist politics. The BBC has played a major role in this process with its constant platforming of the odious Nigel Farage and his not…