Bradford 12: Self-Defence is No Offence Anandi Ramamurthy's history of the Bradford 12 trial, in which twelve members of the United Black Youth League were arrested on conspiracy…
Why Some Like the New Jim Crow So Much A critique of Michelle Alexander's widely praised book on the prison-industrial system in the United States.
Afro-Blue Notes: The Death of Afro-pessimism (2.0)? This article examines Wilderson and Sexton’s trending reiteration of an old Euro-imperial pessimism—a perverse “Afro-pessimism (2.0)” in which Africa disappears altogether along with most of the Black diaspora. Its fatalist representation of “slavery” is interrogated for its “Americanism” and Occidentalism besides its canonical erasure of Black resistance and Pan-African revolt for white settler state…
Messianic Troublemakers: The Past and Present Jewish Anarchism - Jesse Cohn Jesse Cohn looks at the engagement and activities of Jewish people in the international anarchist…
Amussu: An Experiment for a Cinema from Below An indigenous filmmaker's theoretical and practical reflections on the decolonisation of North African cinema, collective filmic narratives,…
Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto - Bernard Goldstein Memoirs of life in the Warsaw ghetto from Bernard Goldstein, leader of the Jewish Labour Bund, recounting his underground activities in Nazi…
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Marek Edelman First-hand account of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, and the increasingly inhumane living conditions imposed on the ghetto by the Nazis in the…
Emerging conflicts in the Asian Youth Movements Anandi Ramamurthy analyses the emerging divisions within the Asian Youth Movements around the issue of state funding. One faction opted to accept…
1892 New Orleans General Strike An extract from Life in the Teamsters: The Civil Rights Movement documenting an early example of class solidarity in the segregationist southern…
No Love for Deliveroo! A reflection on organising and mobilising in the “gig” economy. A report from the New Syndicalist blog, discussing the recent Deliveroo riders' strike in Manchester…
Oiseau-tempête : Third issue This is a translation of a magazine published by a french collective from 1997 to 2006. The original issues can be found here, in French. This is…