by Paul Cudenec I am very honoured to have contributed an article to the second issue of the beautifully-produced and highly interesting Parisian "counter-history" journal brasero which is being launched on Friday November 18 2022 (the first issue was reviewed in English here). Entitled 'For the Law of Nature: the Diggers and their heretical uprising', my piece looks … Continue reading When another England seemed possible
Keith McHenry of Food Not Bombs is interviewed by Paul Cudenec [Audio version] Paul Cudenec: Thanks very much for agreeing to this exchange, Keith. It is very encouraging to know that in this age of near-universal deceit and hypocrisy, there are still individuals out there who stand true to their values. First of all, I gather … Continue reading “I am done with the left-right divide. It’s now the humans versus the deadly robotic corporate state”
by Paul Cudenec The nice imperialists A global agenda Human capital Impact outcomes Vast fortunes Devoted to deceit 1. The nice imperialists In the middle of the 19th century, the British Empire ran into what would today be termed a "public relations crisis". Influential domestic voices were starting to criticise its industrial system and worldwide … Continue reading Empire of hypocrisy
by Paul Cudenec To discern ugliness requires a sense of beauty. To name darkness involves knowing light. And to correctly identify lies demands a grasp of truth. It makes sense, therefore, that behind the title of the newly-published Bright Green Lies, by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert, (1) we find three important and sombre truths. … Continue reading Sombre truths behind bright green lies
Number 63 In this issue: Breaking point draws near Guided by the light of life Nevermore on the anarchist response to Covid-19 Safe & Sanitized: interview with artist Jordan Henderson Wanted: a new resistance movement Georges Bernanos: an orgrad inspiration Acorninfo 1. Breaking point draws near A year after the start of the Covid crisis, … Continue reading The Acorn – 63
by Paul Cudenec The only good thing to have come out of recent nightmarish months is that a lot of people have had to think seriously about the way they see the world. I have not been exempt from this phenomenon, of course, and have been forced by circumstance into serious bouts of ideological soul-searching, … Continue reading Dismantling tyranny
by Paul Cudenec [Audio version] We all know that money is what makes this commercial world go round. The cult of money has swept away the traditional ethical codes of humankind and become the sole indicator of “value”. If something makes money, it is good. If it doesn’t, it is useless. If someone accumulates money, by whatever … Continue reading Money, lies and power
by Paul Cudenec [Audio version] A number of rather strange criticisms have come flying my way over the last few weeks. For the moment I am going to address just one of them – the one which strikes me as the most serious. I had always been under the fond impression that freedom was an … Continue reading Anarchists against freedom!
Report by Paul Cudenec of Shoal Collective. There weren't too many hi-vis jackets in evidence when we arrived at one of a series of roundabouts on the "rocade", the ring road, at Alès in south-east France on Tuesday March 19. Would there be enough protesters to pull off the roadblock that had been agreed … Continue reading Roadblock!
Report by Paul Cudenec of Shoal Collective. Saturday March 16 2019 will probably go down in history as the day that Macron and his government gave up waiting for the Gilets Jaunes movement to fade away. Huge numbers of Yellow Vests packed the Champs Elysées in Paris for Act 18 of their revolt and were … Continue reading The sunshine revolution
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