Since the 1970s, Britain has seen intense social struggles whose outcomes have reverberated around the world. Andy Ramsay surveys the legislative changes that paved the way for the repression experienced by unions and social movements today. interregnum.ghost.io/send-lawyers...

24 October in London at 6:30pm I'll be at the After Collective event on capitalism and its alternatives with Panos Theodoropoulos @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @intrrgum.bsky.social Join us for an inspiring discussion, antii-capitalist solidarity & pizza! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/4nv7s7rb

Join us on the 17th of November in the May Day Rooms! @velocitygravity.bsky.social @article19.co.uk @londoniww.bsky.social #ai #artificialintelligence #opendiscussion #abolishai #futureofai #freeinlondon

Sevra Guzel on how the powerful mobilise censorship laws to stifle dissent. 'Platforms prioritise compliance with powerful actors over the rights of individual users, and filters make that compliance invisible.' #censorship #freespeech #dissent #copyright #law #resistance #automation #ai #filters

interregnum.ghost.io/the-way-thin... The complexity of language highlights the absurdity of borders.

A collection of talks, media appearances and articles by Interregnum's Panos Theodoropoulos that relate to the publication of The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity (Polity Press, 2025). @politybooks.bsky.social

In a gripping post for our Futures and Histories section, Dr Vassilis Galanos (@velocitygravity.bsky.social ) draws on Marx and Bataille to theorise digital speculation, desire, and the future of our very social relations based on the rise of 'hype' as mediator of our lives.

'Death to the IDF means death to an occupying force which is dispossessing Palestinians and killing them on an industrial scale EVERY SINGLE DAY. It does not mean death to a particular religious group.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOk4... from @doubledown.news

In our final piece for art and poetry month, Christopher Hütmannsberger reflects on love friendship, solidarity and hope for the future. interregnum.ghost.io/at-least-we-...

Fawzi Asraf, a queer Palestinian writer and poet based in Sheffield, offers a poem tenderly negotiating desperation, desire and despair.

Graeme Eddolls contemplates hope, struggle and reinvention in the face of structural oppression. 'Those doves will fly again'. interregnum.ghost.io/defunct/

Our member, Panos Theodoropoulos, will be in Melbourne on the 15th of July to present on The Precarious Migrant Worker. More info here: www.migrantworkers.org.au/precarious_m... @politybooks.bsky.social

Cee Smith offers a poem on bravery, pain and facing things head on. A humble reflection on interactions with those fighting for Palestine against the genocide. interregnum.ghost.io/headlining-b...

Vassilis Galanos offers a Joycian poem, which plays complexly with language and its limits: 'all sound is loanlanguage surmounded by silonce'. Follow Vassilis here: @velocitygravity.bsky.social

In another publication from our Art & Poetry month, Jed Forward reflects poignantly on whiteness, history and human agency.

IT MAY BE THE ANARCHISTS

“I have sustained more cuts & burns... particularly problematic because they’re on my fingers, always in contact with warm water & chemicals. Almost every action I perform hurts: I have to just keep ignoring the pain.”

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

'This poem is raw and unedited – it was written immediately upon leaving Rojava, during the seven hour car ride from the Syrian border back to Kurdish Iraq, feeling overwhelmed by what I was leaving behind.'. For more information, see the @rojavainformationcenter.org.web.brid.gy #rojava

In our first publication as part of Art & Poetry month, Sam Button offers a political poem reflecting on the tyranny of the new regime governing the United States of America. Read here: interregnum.ghost.io/the-unfurlin... #poetry #usa #radicalart #politicalpoetry #tyranny

Matteo Ciccognani surveys the poverty of Hollywood's attempts to portray revolutionaries and collective struggles, and considers the current state of revolutionary paradigms in popular culture. #hollywood #revolution #spectacle #barthes

www.iww.cy/events/120-y... On the 31st of May, a member of our collective will be in Cyprus to celebrate 120 years of the Industrial Workers of the World. He will be speaking on years of research in Glasgow's factories and warehouses. We hope to see some of our Cypriot comrades there.

Ambrose McMonagle and Cassandra Lovelock reflect on the growing fervour of anti-trans rhetoric and the on-going failures of the political establishments through lived experiences, both personal and professional. interregnum.ghost.io/out-of-the-c... #supremecourtuk #supremecourt #equalityact

See you tomorrow at the Kinning Park Complex! @gavinbrewis.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social

The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialisation of Precarity is available from Polity Press. In this blog piece for Polity, the author, Interregnum member Panos Theodoropoulos writes about the book's relevance in the current rapidly changing socioeconomic environment.

Hot off the press for May Day! interregnum.ghost.io/may-day-spec...

Language remains one of the strongest arguments against the sheer existence of nation-states, simply because human communication cannot be as neatly defined as a world map with arbitrary lines would like us to believe it is.

No amount of sustained organising is going to remove the need to engage in conflict. Conflict not in order to change minds, but to protect ourselves against those whose minds are firmly made up. interregnum.ghost.io/the-limits-t...

Find us in Glasgow (9th May) and in London (12th May) for the launch of The Precarious Migrant Worker! @politybooks.bsky.social More info here: interregnum.ghost.io/book-launch-...

Erdogan logic: 1) order a cop to attack protesters; 2) protesters defend themselves; 3) blame protesters for 'attacking police officers who are only doing their jobs', as if you didn't just make them attack people. We found it timely to unearth this article from our archives.

We are preparing a few special publications for the upcoming May Day. If you are inspired by a historical instance of collective action and are up for writing about it, we want to hear from you! If you want inspiration, how about reading the story of Willem Arondeus?

In our latest publication, @geraldroche.bsky.social writes on passivity propaganda and the Left's troubling complicity with authoritarian regimes. He explores the messy and contradictory aspects of anti-imperialism and foregrounds solidarity as our task. interregnum.ghost.io/beware-passi...

In this talk delivered as part of the University and College's Union Political Education Programme, Chris Reid discusses a series of radical texts produced by workers in mid-20th century America, and the hopes of overcoming capitalism that they contained.

'The IWW is therefore not trying to be buddies with the employers and government, and as such, despite being around for more than a century, it has not grown to resemble them.' Our comrades in Cyprus write about their organising with the IWW. @industrialworker.bsky.social @iwwnyc.bsky.social

R.L Elson analyses the decisions, impacts, and outcomes of having cosmetic surgeries and procedures through the concepts of feminism, anarchy, and choice.

Brighton, Brighton Anarchist Black Cross, Cowley Club, Event – Discussion, Operation Adream, SCPO (Serious Crime Prevention Orders), Toby Shone, UK

Amidst a surging need for militant antifascist organising, Interregnum hit the streets of London to report on the antifascist demo of the 1st of February 2025.

Matteo Ciccognani surveys the poverty of Hollywood's attempts to portray revolutionaries and collective struggles, and considers the current state of revolutionary paradigms in popular culture.

What is the difference between a dialect and a language? In this thought-provoking piece, Christopher Hütmannsberger reflects on the politics of language and nationalism, and explores how linguistic hierarchies reflect colonial and nationalist power relations.

In our latest intervention, Panos Theodoropoulos argues that no amount of sustained organising is going to remove the need to engage in conflict. Conflict not in order to change minds, but to protect ourselves against those whose minds are firmly made up. interregnum.ghost.io/the-limits-t...

Panos Theodoropoulos from Interregnum will be speaking at this event. Attendance is free.

As a mass rape trial comes to a close in France, Nasra Hussen looks back on all the old common myths used to justify and excuse men who have been caught in the act. interregnum.ghost.io/the-monster-...

Siraj Izhar explores the colonial imagination that drives the genocide in Gaza, and what underlies our difficulties of confronting it.

As part of London IWW's Learning Circle talk series, Dr Emily Foley discusses recent events in Australia, where the government legislated to remove democratic control from one of the country's most powerful unions. We have uploaded a recording of the talk here.

Solidarity unions – unions in the broad sense of the word – consider every issue that a worker is facing to be a labour issue, regardless if it directly relates to their working life. It is an issue that can and must be dealt with collectively, through solidarity and direct action.

We host pieces on social theory, commentary on current events, news and histories of resistance from around the world, as well as creative projects that expand our imaginations. We want to connect with movements, writers, and activists around the world. Check us out here: interregnum.ghost.io