The movement against the imposition of new charges by Irish Water has become a platform for opposition to austerity, bank bailouts, privatisation, the government, party politics, the EU, and more. Thousands have experienced a political (re-) awakening. But while it is possible that we will win this battle, and abolish […]
Today’s left is beset by a lack of strategic reflection. After decades of being weakened, the various forces that comprise the left have been set on the back foot, reacting against the active forces of capital and the state. They have been fractured into a plurality of small-scale and independent […]
‘Why Is My Curriculum White?’, a campaign set up by UCL in 2015, aims to grapple with an academic curriculum in which a white voice is overbearing and all-permeating. The campaign highlights the crucial necessity to reflect on academia’s complicity in white supremacy; in the case of UCL, not only […]
The Logic of State Education Since their creation in 1870, state schools have experienced more, not less, direct political intervention in the structure and content of their teaching. Even before state schools were introduced there were fears of a political nature from both the upper and lower classes. The upper […]
The demonstration at Yarl’s Wood on Saturday June 6th was at its most powerful, and empowering, the moment the windows of Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre came into view. At this point, the movement inside and outside of detention connected as one – visibly, and audibly. That was when the […]
Recently, Home Office immigration enforcement teams have been increasingly targeting the East Street market in Walworth, London, with no less than five raids in a single week. On Sunday 21 June, they came again at 5pm and snatched one man from a fish shop, presumably accused of working without legal […]
One of the more pleasant aspects of the growing anti-gentrification movements has been the increasing presence of children at organising meetings and direct actions. Not only has this posed new challenges in providing mutual acts of childcare, the presence of children has also required a reconfiguration of space to accommodate […]
For the last few weeks I’ve been caught up in the idea of fugitive planning. In their book The Undercommons, Fred Moten and Stefano Harney talk about “an ensemblic stand, a kinetic set of positions… embodied notation, study, score”, which is “practiced on and over the edge of politics, beneath […]
A Horizon for Struggles and Practices The Radical Collective Care Project is a small research group investigating the politics of collective practices of care. Our aim is to explore different methodologies from small self-organised experiments (such as mutual legal aid and housing cooperatives), to substantial movements (such as the PAH […]
The Free Breakfast for Children Program, organised by the Black Panther Party (BPP), has a powerful legacy. Around 10,000 children were fed daily across North America through this initiative. Based on need and not ability, the Free Breakfast Program offered a glimpse into a way of living that promoted the […]