The COVID-19 pandemic has strained and even overwhelmed the public health, medical care and disaster response systems where governments and state agencies were ill-prepared to contain and suppress infectious outbreaks. In countries where emergency lockdown measures have been adopted without accompanying policies to guarantee income security and housing tenure, there is the additional problem of...
Libraries Unlimited are collaborating with Aardman to bring StoryFest to Exeter Library later this year. The week-long festival of reading takes place in October half term StoryFest kicks off at Exeter Library on 25 October for a full day of exciting live events including the Vegetable Orchestra, Shaun Dares Ewe, and special guest appearances from...
These days, when people say the word “libertarian,” they are thinking of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and other tech bros who have tried to claim the label. Because of their support for Donald Trump, and particularly Musk’s recent actions as de facto president, libertarianism has gotten a rather bad reputation. This is unfortunate, since none...
Mainstream right-libertarianism has a long history of tending to prioritize what Albert O. Hirschman called “exit” (i.e., the ability to escape governance through relocation or circumvention) over “voice” (having a say in the governance process that one lives under). Now, there’s nothing wrong with the notion of exit as such. Under an oppressive state, as...
Share Shed The Share Shed, which travels weekly to seven towns in Devon, offers items such as tools, gardening equipment and kitchen appliances A “mobile library of things” that encourages people to share and repair items has been awarded more than £250,000 in National Lottery funding. The Share Shed, which travels weekly to seven towns...
Contents In here you’ll find… Part One: An introduction to the radical idea of dropping out. Part two: Doing it yourself! And as an old man once wrote: In this system, if you’re not revolting against work, then — like it or not — you’re working against revolt. Why I’m doing this When I first...
Sunn: How has the healthcare system in Rojava been able to isolate health from business? In other words, at present, how is healthcare in Rojava different from a capitalist system? Dr. Mohammed: For health in Rojava, the system is decentralized, with co-chairs for all departments and health institutions to ensures women’s rights in departments. So...
Translator’s Preface: This is my first time translating anything into English from Japanese so there are bound to be more than a few mistakes in this translation. I’m also pretty stupid so there may be parts where I have misinterpreted the meaning of a sentence and warped it into something completely different. But I think...
Following Iran’s rocket and drone strikes on the Israeli apartheid regime on April 13th, authoritarian leftists in the Global North once again turned a blind eye to the struggles of oppressed peoples. Instead of focusing on the class struggles of the people, they centered their political analysis on states, offering support to oppressive regimes, and...
Here we go again. It’s apparently reading week at Columbia University which means lots of students are preparing for final exams in the quiet campus library. No doubt that’s why a group of Hamas supporters decided to take over the library today. They want to create maximum disruption on campus. Here they are shoving their...
To start off, anarchists believe in the idea that no one knows what’s best for you better than you do. It rejects hierarchy, including those formed in organizing spaces which leave decision-making up to a handful of faceless “leads.” Anarchy is this idea that people have the autonomy to make decisions for themselves and cooperate...
[T]he emancipation of the working classes must be conquered by the working classes themselves, that the struggle for the emancipation of the working classes means not a struggle for class privileges and monopolies, but for equal rights and duties, and the abolition of all class rule. — General Rules of the first International Workingmen’s Association...
A mature person is one who has outgrown childish emotional impulses. He has learnt about himself and his environment thru personal experience, and has become able to control his emotional feelings in a rational manner. He has emerged from the sheltered dream world of childhood and been weaned to face reality. His reactions to people,...
Factions are governments. By the looks of things, governments also seem to be power. Well if that’s the case, then maybe factions are organizations created with power as an objective. What’s more is that such power possibly only finds hope within the “majority,” at the end of the day. Nevertheless, in the case of government,...
The following is an excerpt from an article commenting on the 1993 Palestine Liberation Organization/Israel peace agreement, “The PLO/Israeli Treaty: Another Defeat for the Palestinians,” from Fifth Estate #343, Fall/Winter 1993. ( https://www.fifthestate.org/343-fall-winter-1993/the-plo-israeli-treaty/ ) Few realize that in the 45 years of Israeli existence, fewer than 700 Israeli civilians have been killed by Palestinian guerrillas....