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…this article is about self defence, which can take on many forms besides physical violence. However, as that is where the mind naturally goes when we think about self defence, that is where we shall start…

“All signs announce, the change has come. I will be something other than I started from.”

A course from Gods&Radicals Press and Académie Hérétique

The sad reality is that individual action is inadequate. No amount of donation, responsible eating, ethical-company-purchasing action will save anyone when your professional and economic actions work to undermine your theoretical ideals.

2018 was a fascinating year. Its subtitle seemed to be: “Men are trash.”

To break the cursed loom

Of Fate and Boss alike –

In the night, we Luddites of the Firmament.

Yet should our doom arrive

(Despite/in spite/because of) our own best efforts –

What will it take for human beings to change? I think, maybe, it would take dying.

A final editorial from Rhyd Wildermuth

Now is a good time to look back at the year that is almost over, at our victories and defeats, no matter how big or small. Doing so puts us in good stead for the year that is coming, allowing us to plan or pinpoint the course we want the year to take.

The shame is absolutely not on anyone who has supported his work; it’s completely, 100%, on him. That doesn’t mean we are helpless. We have taken action to listen, support, de-platform, and prevent.

We, all of us, need irresponsible partying, within a bound length of time. We already have this in the form of Christmas. I argue that time is wasted getting people to call it Saturnalia and aping some lame reconstruction of Roman partying.

A new episode of Empires Crumble, from Alley Valkyrie and Rhyd Wildermuth

Slovenian Christmas songs, remembering the Sun and the Water, and holding on to old traditions.

I left my inner atheist impaled upon Lugh’s shining spear in that tomb.

‘it is never too late
for solstice stillness’ -

We cannot return to our home, any more than we can return to the wholeness that was taken from us. But we can reclaim something of our inheritance. We may light the fire in the hearth, call the gods and spirits to us, and make a new home for ourselves.

Angie examines the birth of Rave Culture, the state repression that came against it, its political possibilities, capitalist subversion of its revolutionary potential, how the left can learn from it, and what might come next

Politeness isn’t our shield, our unity is. Unity not only between women, but between all of us who are dedicated to destroying White Capitalist Patriarchy. There is no way to destroy the Patriarchy by being “gezellig”.

“they are going to create sports pitches and even a wildlife area. A fecking wildlife area!  As if the wildlife isn't already there.”