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Left: Marlon Brando, Right: Elia Kazan. Both are wearing suit and tie.

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.

Black and white picture of a Palestinian in a keffiyah giving the peace sign. Red background.

Voices from the front line against the occupation: Interview with Palestinian anarchists

Black Rose Anarchist Federation interview Fauda, an anarchist organisation in Palestine.

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A decisive crossroads: The two fundamental possibilities in dealing with the developments and the spread of artificial intelligence

Patrick Derieg considers the future of AI. Will we allow big tech companies to solely own Al, or will we take collective ownership over these increasingly powerful technological tools?

Are you still Googling or are you looking for more? A call for anti-capitalist language use

Are you still Googling or are you looking for more? A call for anti-capitalist language use

As long as we are alone, individualised, and isolated, we cannot defend ourselves. Yet big tech companies are not without alternatives. Looking for these alternatives already begins in the way we speak about them.

Special economic enclaves: Why we must pay attention to the UK’s Freeports

Special economic enclaves: Why we must pay attention to the UK’s Freeports

Around the world, corporate-aligned governments have initiated thousands of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in which normal tax, environmental, and workers’ rights laws don’t apply.

Yes, all cops are bastards. Even the 'good ones'.

Yes, all cops are bastards. Even the 'good ones'.

Three years after the murder of George Floyd that inspired this article, police brutality remains a festering wound upon the social body. Before we can imagine how to move beyond our current predicament, we must first understand it.