Cautiously Pessimistic

Content by or about Cautiously Pessimistic, a UK-based anarchist/communist blog which ran from 2010-2022. https://nothingiseverlost.wordpress.com/

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Brexit means the sky is falling: how Aufheben learned to stop worrying and love the EU

Cautiously Pessimistic blog response to an Aufheben article about Brexit.

Is Alexander Reid Ross the CEO/dad of antifa?: On contagion, shades of grey, and the three-way fight

The Cautiously Pessimistic blog explores whether the antifascist critique of red…

Yankee theorists are always on the TV: a reply on Americans, academics and so on

The question of class and things that tend to get described as “identity politics”, whether or not…

Bomber Harris Superstar, anti-deutsch

Syria seen from the Viewpoint of imperial purity: the crushing narcissism of empire

Cautiously Pessimistic responds to Patrick Higgins' The Enemy at Home: U.S. Imperialism in Syria…

Self-organised claimant resistance to Atos: a success story for our time

French IT firm Atos announce they will pull out of the controversial Work Capacity Assement program…

A trip down CrimethInc’s memory hole: 2010-2011 in review, reviewed.

Cautiously Pessimistic blog analyses and critiques Crimethinc's piece on the UK anti-austerity…

A chance to start writing ourselves back into the story

The Cautiously Pessimistic blog takes a look at the current struggle of electricians in the UK and…