Archive - On Revolution

Is Zohran Mamdani a police and prison abolitionist?

It's complicated. But there are lessons we can learn from Zohran's radical approach to police, prisons, and electoralism.

Jul 16 •

June 2025

Authoritarianism With a Dash of Identity Politics: the Crime and Policing Bill

Minority groups are being given crumbs to build consent for Labour's authoritarian Crime & Policing Bill; meanwhile left media outlets like Novara…

Jun 21 •

Between the Movement and the Mainstream: An Interview With Zack Polanski

Movement radicals Jonas Marvin and Shanice McBean interview Green Party leadership hopeful Zack Polanski.

Jun 9 •

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May 2025

Rees' Ontology: An Obfuscation - On Marx, Gender & Trans Liberation

Contesting Marx's application to gender, women's oppression and trans liberation: I respond to John Rees.

May 8 •

April 2025

Is kindness and empathy really so scary?

Abolition teaches us to lead with our shared humanity: why I confronted three men in north London.

Apr 4 •

March 2025

'The Despised Blood of the Negro Flows Freely in the Veins of Jews'

Exploring antisemitism and colonial racisms; their connections, and ruptures.

Mar 23 •

A Marxist reviews a Marxist: Minority Rule by Ash Sarkar

Now that the dust of the Twitter beef has settled, what should we make of Ash Sarkar's debut book 'Minority Rule'?

Mar 9 •

February 2025

I am not English, and I don't need to be

Are Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak English? I reflect on my own identity to provide an alternative response to the culture war: centring universal…

Feb 28 •

War on Poor: Police Violence and Class

Exploring police violence as a working class problem; the connections between race and class; and countering narratives that claim policing is a 'woke…

Feb 26 •

Liberation Delayed: the Trap of 'War on Woke'

Meaning matters, so why is the left reproducing the right wing moral panic on woke, DEI and identity politics?

Feb 20 •

Left Wing Pitfalls: Against Neoliberal Identity Politics & Class Reductionism

Does the left need to abandon radical ideas? Are liberation politics over? Do we need to return to class?

Feb 17 •

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