Author: Zee

To start with I do think it is unnecessary to single out Football as singularly reactionary compared to other team sports. The motives and ideas at play are the same across rugby, cricket, baseball etc. Football in theory isn’t special as a ‘reactionary’ force it’s just that in reality the level of violence, the gangs… Read more

To ‘Revolutionary Left’ is full of different groups with different vibes and perspectives for the world. These groups read a lot of the same core books, with a sprinkling of their own authors now added to the official canon, think everything is terrible and we need revolution, but end up in entirely different places about… Read more

Is nerd shit actually important? As someone who never went to Uni and had no interest in anything I thought of as academic I am really surprised how much I enjoy reading philosophy. It can be dense depending on who you are reading but patience usually wins the day if the philosopher is trying to… Read more

Something that is not immediately obvious to people outside the mess that is left-wing organising, and politics is that the groups don’t really get along very well. In Newcastle there is open hostility between different far left groupings to the point of attempting to ban some groups from public protest and open hostility on picket… Read more