Month: April 2020

How Trump allies have organized and promoted anti-lockdown protests

Are the anti-lockdown protests Republican astroturf, or a genuinely popular rebellion that the Republicans are trying to coopt? By Michael Martina, Jarrett Renshaw and Tim Reid Reuters HARRISBURG, Pa./DETROIT (Reuters) – Republican politicians and individuals affiliated with President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign are organizing or promoting anti-lockdown protests […]

Interview: Ruth Kinna

Features, Apr 21st Freedom spoke to Ruth Kinna, author of numerous books on anarchism about the origins and key concepts of anarchism. What do you find most attractive about anarchism? I like the starting point. Anarchists usually start with a critique of injustice and an assumption of social […]

The Coming Crime Wars

An article on the rise of fourth-generation warfare. By Robert Muggah and John P. Sullivan Foreign Policy Wars are on the rebound. There are twice as many civil conflicts today, for example, as there were in 2001. And the number of nonstate armed groups participating in the bloodshed is multiplying. According to […]

Big Tech to the Rescue of the State

Politico Facebook is blocking anti-quarantine protesters from using the site to organize in-person gatherings that violate states’ stay-at-home orders — a move that had brought an immediate backlash from conservatives including President Donald Trump’s eldest son. The world’s largest social network has removed protest messages in California, New […]

COVID-19 School Cancellations in Every State

The current crisis hasn’t only produced bad things. It has also produced many good things: school cancelations, prisoner releases, reductions in pollution, fewer traffic accidents, the oil industry tanking, rising class consciousness, politicians increasingly exposed as petty tyrants and incompetent morons, pro-civil liberties protests, greater levels of mutual […]

Ten Anarchist Principles

By Peter Kakol Infoshop Anarchism is greatly misunderstood in the English speaking world where, due to a successful and long-standing propaganda campaign by the wealthy and their servants, anarchism is equated with irrational violence, terrorism, lawlessness, and the misdefinition of the word ‘anarchy’ to make it synonymous with […]