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‘Send Lawyers, Guns and Money’: Lawfare Against Labour Organising in the UK since 1970 Since the 1970s, Britain has seen intense social struggles whose outcomes have reverberated around the world. Andy Ramsay surveys the legislative changes that paved the way for the repression experien...

Since the 1970s, Britain has seen intense social struggles whose outcomes have reverberated around the world. Andy Ramsay surveys the legislative changes that paved the way for the repression experienced by unions and social movements today.

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SAVE THE DATE! Online Connection Events. Masculinities in focus: Opportunities and challenges for change. The sessions will be for two hours and involve two to three speakers whose research relates to contemporary issues and debates within masculinity studies (broadly defined) from various perspectives, including critical, health, clinical, social cultural and cross-cultural psychology. Contributors will have existing or emerging research in the following areas: *Support for men and boys as victims of sexual, physical and other forms of violence *Stability and change in notions of 'acceptable' masculinity * The role of men and boys as advocates for gender equality Date: 19 November 2025 Time: 2-4pm (TBC) Location: Online Expressions of interest should be sent to POWES.mns.bps.org.uk

24 October in London at 6:30pm I'll be at the After Collective event on capitalism and its alternatives with Panos Theodoropoulos @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @intrrgum.bsky.social Join us for an inspiring discussion, antii-capitalist solidarity & pizza! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/4nv7s7rb

Artificial Intelligence: To Participate or to Abolish? Artificial Intelligence is a threat and a promise; as the world grapples with understanding its prospects and dangers, we invite you to join us in London on the 17th of November for a talk and open di...

Join us on the 17th of November in the May Day Rooms! @velocitygravity.bsky.social @article19.co.uk @londoniww.bsky.social

#ai #artificialintelligence #opendiscussion #abolishai #futureofai #freeinlondon

'Your Third Eye is Open, but the Other Two are Blind': Interview with Def Ill Interregnum catches up with Austrian rapper Def Ill to talk politics, culture, and the history of hip hop.

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Weaponized Copyright: The New Censorship Most think of copyright enforcement as a tool to protect the entertainment industry from pirated content. However, copyright enforcement systems have become a shadowy frontline in the suppression of d...

Sevra Guzel on how the powerful mobilise censorship laws to stifle dissent. 'Platforms prioritise compliance with powerful actors over the rights of individual users, and filters make that compliance invisible.'

#censorship #freespeech #dissent #copyright #law #resistance #automation #ai #filters

The Way Things are Said What is the difference between a dialect and a language? In this thought-provoking piece, Christopher Hütmannsberger reflects on the politics of language and nationalism, and explores how linguistic h...

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The complexity of language highlights the absurdity of borders.

Hello, we are trying to get in touch with Jon about a piece about his new book. Would it be possible to send us his email? We haven't been able to find it anywhere.

The Precarious Migrant Worker: Around the World A collection of talks, media appearances and articles by Interregnum's Panos Theodoropoulos that relate to the publication of The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity (Polity Pres...

A collection of talks, media appearances and articles by Interregnum's Panos Theodoropoulos that relate to the publication of The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity (Polity Press, 2025).

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Eleven Theses on Technological Hype as Capital Hype is a kind of currency in the tech world, and when so much of the market for innovation depends on speculation, all kinds of monsters appear. Vassilis Galanos theorises this hype as a form of capi...

In a gripping post for our Futures and Histories section, Dr Vassilis Galanos (@velocitygravity.bsky.social ) draws on Marx and Bataille to theorise digital speculation, desire, and the future of our very social relations based on the rise of 'hype' as mediator of our lives.

YouTube video by Double Down News What REALLY Happened at Glastonbury

'Death to the IDF means death to an occupying force which is dispossessing Palestinians and killing them on an industrial scale EVERY SINGLE DAY. It does not mean death to a particular religious group.'

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At Least We Still Have Us In our final piece for art and poetry month, Christopher Hütmannsberger reflects on love friendship, solidarity and hope for the future.

In our final piece for art and poetry month, Christopher Hütmannsberger reflects on love friendship, solidarity and hope for the future.

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Sanguine Fawzi Asraf offers a poem tenderly negotiating desperation, desire and despair.

Fawzi Asraf, a queer Palestinian writer and poet based in Sheffield, offers a poem tenderly negotiating desperation, desire and despair.

Defunct Graeme Eddolls contemplates hope, struggle and reinvention in the face of structural oppression. 'Those doves will fly again'.

Graeme Eddolls contemplates hope, struggle and reinvention in the face of structural oppression. 'Those doves will fly again'.

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The Precarious Migrant Worker with Panos Theodoropoulos

Our member, Panos Theodoropoulos, will be in Melbourne on the 15th of July to present on The Precarious Migrant Worker. More info here:

www.migrantworkers.org.au/precarious_m...

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Headlining Bystander Cee Smith offers a poem on bravery, pain and facing things head on. A humble reflection on interactions with those fighting for Palestine against the genocide.

Cee Smith offers a poem on bravery, pain and facing things head on. A humble reflection on interactions with those fighting for Palestine against the genocide.

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Peristerra Inbetweencognita Vassilis Galanos offers a Joycian poem, which plays complexly with language and its limits: 'all sound is loanlanguage surmounded by silonce'.

Vassilis Galanos offers a Joycian poem, which plays complexly with language and its limits: 'all sound is loanlanguage surmounded by silonce'. Follow Vassilis here: @velocitygravity.bsky.social

Whites Jed Forward reflects poignantly on whiteness, history and human agency.

In another publication from our Art & Poetry month, Jed Forward reflects poignantly on whiteness, history and human agency.

IT MAY BE THE ANARCHISTS

“I have sustained more cuts & burns... particularly problematic because they’re on my fingers, always in contact with warm water & chemicals. Almost every action I perform hurts: I have to just keep ignoring the pain.”

FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

A Theory of Thunder Iona Soper contributes a powerful poem which remembers their time in a Scottish delegation to Rojava.

'This poem is raw and unedited – it was written immediately upon leaving Rojava, during the seven hour car ride from the Syrian border back to Kurdish Iraq, feeling overwhelmed by what I was leaving behind.'.

For more information, see the
@rojavainformationcenter.org.web.brid.gy

#rojava

In our first publication as part of Art & Poetry month, Sam Button offers a political poem reflecting on the tyranny of the new regime governing the United States of America. Read here: interregnum.ghost.io/the-unfurlin...

#poetry #usa #radicalart #politicalpoetry #tyranny

The enduring legacy of Hollywood’s ‘individualist revolutionaries’ Matteo Ciccognani surveys the poverty of Hollywood's attempts to portray revolutionaries and collective struggles, and considers the current state of revolutionary paradigms in popular culture.

Matteo Ciccognani surveys the poverty of Hollywood's attempts to portray revolutionaries and collective struggles, and considers the current state of revolutionary paradigms in popular culture.
#hollywood #revolution #spectacle #barthes

120 YEARS INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD! - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Cyprus Let's welcome the scorching hostile summer right, with a top class (working class that is) celebration! Come one, come all, and bring your families and friends! There will be free drinks and snacks fo...

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On the 31st of May, a member of our collective will be in Cyprus to celebrate 120 years of the Industrial Workers of the World. He will be speaking on years of research in Glasgow's factories and warehouses. We hope to see some of our Cypriot comrades there.

Out of the Clinics, Into the Streets! Authors Ambrose McMonagle and Cassandra Lovelock reflect on the growing fervour of anti-trans rhetoric and the on-going failures of the political establishments through lived experiences, both persona...

Ambrose McMonagle and Cassandra Lovelock reflect on the growing fervour of anti-trans rhetoric and the on-going failures of the political establishments through lived experiences, both personal and professional.

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#supremecourtuk #supremecourt #equalityact

See you tomorrow at the Kinning Park Complex!

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From the ground up: The socialisation of precarity and the future of social struggles The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialisation of Precarity is available today from Polity Press. In this blog piece for Polity, the author, Interregnum member Panos Theodoropoulos writes about the ...

The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialisation of Precarity is available from Polity Press. In this blog piece for Polity, the author, Interregnum member Panos Theodoropoulos writes about the book's relevance in the current rapidly changing socioeconomic environment.

May Day Special: Tacky’s Revolt – Lessons for modern labour from a slave uprising In this special piece to celebrate May Day, Christopher D. Reid examines Tacky's Revolt and the complex interactions between slavery, geopolitics, and resistance in the Caribbean of the 18th century. ...

Hot off the press for May Day!

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