by Harvey Kropotkin "You’ve gotta punch the clock, why don’t you punch your boss? You just punch the clock, too scared to punch your boss." - Dead Kennedys, "Well-Paid Scientist" Aggretsuko beating the shit out of the patriarchy and her boss simultaneously. It’s fun to think about. We ended Part 1 of our discussion on self-respect with … Continue reading Self-Respect: The Radical’s Tool in Dismantling Psychopolitics, Part 2
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The Grinch: False Philosopher
by W.D. James Simple stories are often the best stories. The Christmas story itself is quite simple and about simple characters: a young mother, her baby, some shepherds and angels and a manger. Most of the good stories it has inspired are likewise simple, dealing with a few human essentials. Christmas seems to be a … Continue reading The Grinch: False Philosopher
Self-Respect: The Radical’s Tool in Dismantling Psychopolitics, Part 1
by first-time Winter Oak contributor Harvey Kropotkin "All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished." - Marshall B. Rosenberg Self-respect is to plant the seeds of revolution. Are you being treated by others as you wish … Continue reading Self-Respect: The Radical’s Tool in Dismantling Psychopolitics, Part 1
A strange kind of happiness
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) They're closing the schoolsThey're burning the booksThe church is in ruinsThe priests hang on hooksThe radio's on iceThe telly's been bannedThe army's in powerThe devil commands! These lyrics by the English punk group The Damned belong to the distant decades of my youth (1979), but they seem … Continue reading A strange kind of happiness
The Maverick Strain
by Mike Driver Consider the possibility that humanity is divided into three types of people: conformists, who represent the vast majority, plus a relatively small number of Mavericks and psychopaths. As a civilisation rises the Mavericks lead by default. They are the creators of new knowledge, they discover new opportunity, they explore both geographically and … Continue reading The Maverick Strain
Zionism, Nazism and Moloch
A book review by Paul Cudenec, who reads it here "It is clear that Israel does not represent or speak for all Jews worldwide, nor do the Jewish organizations outside of Israel who claim to represent a unified Jewish voice". [1] The big lie that anti-Zionism amounts to anti-semitism is one that has been repeated … Continue reading Zionism, Nazism and Moloch
The caged hearts of humankind
by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) It has become apparent to me that there are two aspects to political movements, organisations or institutions. The horrible truth is that they all seem to have been taken over by the corrupt global mafia and turned into instruments for its control. But, on the inside, there … Continue reading The caged hearts of humankind
Our impossible resistance will prevail!
The second of two related book reviews by Paul Cudenec (who reads it here) Having recently addressed the question of how the global mafia manages to maintain its rule in the face of all our resistance, [1] I will now look at the issue the other way round, by asking how our resistance can possibly … Continue reading Our impossible resistance will prevail!
FiLiA Women’s Rights Conference 2025 – The Battleground of Anti-Zionist vs Zionist Feminists
Zionists everywhere use the same tactics to try to shut down all criticism of their genocidal imperialist entity. This article by an anonymous member of the Anti-Imperialist Feminist Network exposes the lies, gaslighting and intimidation deployed against anti-Zionist women at a feminist conference in Brighton, England, in October 2025. It was originally published by Women's … Continue reading FiLiA Women’s Rights Conference 2025 – The Battleground of Anti-Zionist vs Zionist Feminists
The military mechanism of zimperial occupation
The first of two related book reviews by Paul Cudenec (who reads it here) "How can it hold? How can an international order founded on the subjugation of the majority of humankind manage to endure in the face of everything resisting it? What is it that really stops us from liberating ourselves?" [1] This is … Continue reading The military mechanism of zimperial occupation
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