RESISTANCE AND REBELLION AFTER COVID-19

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged capitalism, class war, Community, coronavirus, Covid-19, direct action, exploitation, featured, freedom, homelessness, Jamese Scott, McDonalds, mutual aid, neoliberalism, NHS, resistance, Sports Direct, Starbucks, strikes, Trump, uk, US, Virgin, Wetherspoons.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

What a time to be alive. As Covid-19 rampages its way across the globe ravaging families and livelihoods, a medical fetish company has had to supply the NHS with equipment because the British government is a lethal combination of neoliberal, greedy and incompetent. While kink is contributing to saving lives, and while many people are faced with the prospect of trying to subsist and keep their families afloat on £94.25 per week sick pay during the lockdown, the British government has been putting together £1 billion of public funding to be doled out to countries who then intend to use this loan to buy British-made bombs and surveillance technology. British people die through negligence, people in other nations die through cataclysmic violence: welcome to Tory Britain.

FUCK YOU, MR PRESIDENT

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged baby, Balloon, corbyn, demo, demonstration, direct action, EDL, featured, freedom, london, march, may, non violent, Owen Jones, Pacific, palestine, protest, resist, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, StopTrump, SWP, tme travel, tommy robinson, Trump, uk.

by Zoe Harding

I wanted to go to the Trump protests so I could say I did. Whatever the final ending of Trump’s story turns out to be – peaceful impeachment or nuclear armageddon – it’s got such disturbing parallels to past dictators already that I get the impression he’s going to be spoken of alongside the great bastards of the last century. It’s getting to the point where I’m starting to wonder why time travellers haven’t started popping up to shoot him. In the world we live in, where photos of crowd size are already a disputed quantity rather than a piece of evidence, and mass protests are a fact of life, I still wanted to say I’d tried to express my feelings about wotsit Hitler and his cadre of bastards.Continue Reading

WHAT ARE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITIES MADE OF? – BEYOND TUITION FEES #6

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academics, Beyond Tuition Fees, Community, consumerism, demonstration, freedom, legislation, marketing, Notes From Below, PR, relationship marketing, Stuart Hall, student loans, students, UCU, universities, Universities UK, university communities, university management, USS strikes, workers, workers' inquiry, workplace dynamics.

By Ellen Musgrove and Max Savage

It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s political project. But what will the implications for universities be if this comes to pass? And what can we do to leverage this progress? In this series, the Norwich Radical and Bright Green are bringing together perspectives from across the sector to explore these questions.

At any demonstration concerning the anti-marketisation or -commodification of education and the university you will hear the phrase “We are not consumers – we are a community.” The motive behind this message is a good one, bearing positive and uplifting implications for the demonstrators. However, to those outside the demo space, be they apathetic students passing by or workers who may not have the freedom to stop and participate as readily as an academic might, calling ourselves a community means very little in a practical sense.

HAPPY APRIL 8TH. LET’S HAVE A PROTEST

Posted on April 7, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged activist, American Civil Rights Movement, antigypsyism, black protesters, Bob Hoskins, Bohémien, Brahms, Charlie Chaplin, Civil Rights, Courtland Cox, culture, discrimination, Ernst, EU Fundamental Rights Agency, Europe, featured, flamenco, France, freedom, french Romani, Gadje, gypsy, Gypsy Jazz, inequality, integration, International Roma Day, legitimizers, Liszt, Manele, Mark Twain, material poverty, Michael Caine, misrepresentation, music, myth, non Roma, Pablo Picasso, persecution, protest, protest song, Ravel, Rita Hayworth, Roma, roma rights, Romani, Romani anthem, Romani Holocaust, Romania, Romany, Sarasate, SNCC, strategic allies, unity, Weber, Yugoslav Partisan, Yul Brynner.

by Jonathan Lee

Content warning: article mentions antigypsyism, racism, discrimination and persecution

Opre Roma, si bakht akana
Aven mansa sa lumnyake Roma.
Roma arise! The time is now.
Come with me, Roma from all the world.

These words were written in 1949 by Žarko Jovanović, a Romani Holocaust survivor, Yugoslav Partisan fighter, and activist. They were put to a traditional melody, and adopted as the Romani Anthem in 1971.

It bears none of the hallmarks of an anthem as conceived in the traditional sense by European nation-states. It is not a hymn or an opera. It’s melody is plaintive, unstructured, reckless even. It does not conceive of a homeland, real or imagined, nor does it call for the unification of a people in a national sense. Instead the lyrics speak of the freedom of the road, freedom from persecution, and the need for unity of Romani people across the world. Amongst many other things, it is fundamentally a protest song.Continue Reading

FOUR HAIKUS

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged artivism, capitalism, freedom, haiku, humanity, money, poem, poetry, propaganda, resist, short, war.

by Mark Pearson

#1
Info war perverts.
Cold hard cash agendas set.
Truth is not out there.Continue Reading

TRADING FREEDOMS – THE OFFICE FOR STUDENTS PROPOSALS

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged academics, Cardiff University, censorship, clampdown, debate, establishment, freedom, freedom of choice, freedom of speech, germaine greer, government, HEFCE, higher education, jo johnson, mainstream media, no platforming, office for students, power, regulation, rights, safe spaces, safeguarding, student politics, student power, students, students' unions, transphobia, universities.

by Robyn Banks

CW: mentions transphobia

‘Universities must bring back freedom of speech!’ That was the premise of various headlines surrounding Jo Johnson’s announcement last week of proposed powers for the Office for Students (OfS). One of those proposals is that universities and student unions that don’t conform to Johnson and the OfS’ concept of ‘freedom of speech’ could receive sanctions in the form of fines. While the powers of OfS are still only at the consultation stage, this announcement gives us a rather concerning insight into the plans and aims that Johnson has for the newly formed office.

THE URGENCY AND STATE OF SISTERHOOD IN 2017

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged capitalism, charlize theron, economy, emotions, employment, equality, Fawcett Society, female, female friendship, feminine, feminism, feminist philosophy, freedom, furiosa, gender pay gap, leora tanenbaum, mad max, madonna, planned parenthood, sisterhood, slut, suffragettes, togetherness, whore, women, women's rights, workers.

by Sunetra Senior

It’s becoming a popular thought in public consciousness that women ought to focus on their own autonomy and watch out for co-dependence on their closest female friends. It’s a third/fourth wave feminist philosophy that gained momentum through the hopeful nineties years, evidenced in such films as teenage clique critique ‘The Craft (1996). And surely, the thinker will say, a continued focus on personal freedom for women can only good? To these people I say: please remember we’re living in an unhinged, manipulative age.

With the infamous/illicit (?) inauguration on 20th January, we’ve just had Trumpeted to us social regression by at least 20 or so years so if the good fight for feminism is to keep up we must adapt the strategy accordingly. This means once again pushing for a support-group, grass-roots sort of approach – not unlike the Suffragettes who fought for the women’s right to vote in the early 19th century – whereupon more women not only campaign together, but sincerely support each other in their private relationships. Continue Reading

STREET CORNERS

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #fightback, #readwomen, creative writing, freedom, kleptocracy, media, MSM, news, normalisation, papers, poem, poetry, politics, press, protest, resist, response, scandals, stories, Trump, women writers, writing.

by Cadi Cliff

I dream in headlines
buried under my pillow
LED replay behind tired eyes

the stories we should be breakingContinue Reading

A EUROPEAN LIFE

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged art, Brexit, British, colony, continent, culture, diversity, Dutch, emotions, EU, EU ref, EU referendum, Europe, european, European cities, food, freedom, freedom of movement, frere jacques, hitchhike, holiday, Italy, Lancashire, languages, Liverpool, memory, military camps, multiculturalism, multiculture, music, paris, reading, Russia, stateless, theatre, thoughts, travel, Vienna, work, World War Two, wwii.

by Kelvin Smith

I was born shortly after the end of the Second World War in a nursing home that overlooked the Mersey, open to the world, “on the stream of trade” as my school song had it.

At primary school we drew Spitfires and Hurricanes in aerial dogfights with Junkers and Messerschmitts. There were bomb-sites in the towns and cities and there were Emergency Water Storage Tanks (marked EWS) everywhere. My first non-English words were Hände hoch and Achtung, closely followed by Frère Jacques. My parents had few foreign friends, although a Dutchman, a fellow chemist, had stayed with them in the early 1940s and he returned home with a broad Lancashire accent. “Reet bloody champion”, he would say.Continue Reading

BEYONCÉ AND HER REFRESHING LEMONADE

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged #BlackGirlMagic, Beyonce, black communities, black culture, Eric Garner, formation, freedom, hot sauce, LEMONADE, love, malcom x, Michael Brown, music, Oritisha 'Oshun', oshun, race, racism, review, self love, Serena Williams, trayvonn martin, Warsan Shire, Yoruba, yoruba oritisha.

by Emmanuel Agu

Lemonade, Beyoncé’s latest album, is aptly named. In the political climate we live in with constant reminders of the atrocities that black people face, and a music industry that seems to be losing its greatest and brightest this year, nothing could have been more refreshing than this album for popular culture and especially for black women. This is undoubtedly the strongest piece of work Beyoncé has ever produced; musically, visually, and politically. With features and samples from a wide variety of artists including James Blake, Jack White, Diplo and for a second time another sample from Outkast’s’ ‘Spottieottiedopaliciousness’ (which I will never complain about), Knowles-Carter goes from strength to strength and I am truly left to question if it is ever possible for her to release an album less brilliant than its predecessor.

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RESISTANCE AND REBELLION AFTER COVID-19

FUCK YOU, MR PRESIDENT

WHAT ARE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITIES MADE OF? – BEYOND TUITION FEES #6

HAPPY APRIL 8TH. LET’S HAVE A PROTEST

FOUR HAIKUS

TRADING FREEDOMS – THE OFFICE FOR STUDENTS PROPOSALS

THE URGENCY AND STATE OF SISTERHOOD IN 2017

STREET CORNERS

A EUROPEAN LIFE

BEYONCÉ AND HER REFRESHING LEMONADE

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