Alex Prichard

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Teaches and writes about anarchy, anarchism, and world politics at the Universty of Exeter. ISRF Fellow, 2023-2024. Hopeful Liverpool fan. UCU commons. Author of Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (new ed) https://amzn.eu/d/97nNYeq
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Here's some fashy tears for your Sunday.

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The News from France, for those of us living here, is more than a relief. The party founded by retired waffen-SS members, the Front National (or RN - i refuse to use there idiot new name) came in third - the Left came in first! First!!!! So - Love is All you need: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_paP...

All You Need Is Love - The Beatles (1967)www.youtube.com This is a song released in July 1967 as The Beatles' 15th single.The song was created for the TV program 'Our World,' which was simultaneously broadcast worl...

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New translation: Jenny P. d'Héricourt, “Philosophical Letters on Tolerance and the Critique of Hypotheses” (1863-64) — Proudhon's most accomplished feminist critic takes up some familiar Proudhonian concerns. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/black-and-re...

Jenny P. d’Héricourt, “Philosophical Letters on Tolerance and the Critique of Hypotheses” (1863-64) - The Libertarian Labyrinthwww.libertarian-labyrinth.org Lettres philosophiques sur la tolérance et la critique des hypothèses. (Première lettre.) Si quelque honorable du sexe barbu a surpris la suscription de la lettre que je reçois de vous, chère Madame, ...

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I'm happy to be able to share a full, rough, draft translation of Proudhon's 1843 work, "The Creation of Order in Humanity," which includes his discussion of the "serial dialectic," along with early versions of analyses that would feature in later works. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/new-proudhon...

P.-J. Proudhon, “The Creation of Order in Humanity” — Definitions and Chapter I - The Libertarian Labyrinthwww.libertarian-labyrinth.org I call Order every seriated or symmetrical arrangement. Order necessarily presupposes division, distinction, difference. Nothing undivided, indistinct, undifferentiated, can be understood as ordered: ...

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Proudhon, "The Confessions of a Revolutionary" (full draft translation): www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/wp-content/u...

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A couple of general-access posts on Patreon this week, with translations by Proudhon (defining art and the ideal) and Pierre Leroux (from "Equality.") Subscribers will get early access to my wrestlings with Proudhon's theories of marriage and justice. www.patreon.com/posts/proudh...

Proudhon on the ideal | Shawn P. Wilburwww.patreon.com Get more from Shawn P. Wilbur on Patreon

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It only goes to show that if anything is foul enough it should be possible to come together to oppose it. Americans please take note.

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No FT, "most seats" would be a majority of seats. That might happen, but it isn't what's expected

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Would you like some fromage with that whine

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OK EVERYONE TIME TO ADJUST THE NARRATIVE - CENTRE-LEFT NOW ASCENDANT IN EUROPE, POPULIST RIGHT IN DISARRAY, WE’VE ALL GOT THAT CLEMENT ATTLEE/LEON BLUM FEELING. THAT IS ALL. amp.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

French election 2024 live: exit poll shows shock win for left-green alliance as far right falls to third | France | The Guardianamp.theguardian.com New Popular Front predicted to get 172-192 seats, with Marine Le Pen’s far-right RN and allies down in third

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Yes, more fascist tears, yes.

This!! Omfg. How amazing. Fuck the right

I’m not as ecstatic as Polly, but this might make you glow some more www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Celebrate: we have waited so long for this routing of the Tories. An unbearably rare moment of pure political joy | Polly Toynbeewww.theguardian.com Out with the scoundrels. There will be time to think about the massive tasks ahead for Labour, but – for now – marvel at what they have done, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Real football only two weeks away, peeps youtu.be/vE7G6uNk3Rw

Inside Training: Arne Slot meets the players on day one of pre-season | Liverpool FCyoutu.be Watch as Arne Slot checks-in at the AXA Training Centre for his media duties alongside Richard Hughes, before the first batch of players returned for pre-sea...

It may be torrential outside, but I’m glowing inside…

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Rwanda scheme abolished on first day.

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Nice to see the BBC using the term 'climate crisis', something a lot of us have been advocating for a while.

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There’s a ceiling on the amount of ‘short money’ that opposition parties receive according to the number of votes they received if they have less than six seats.

FYI, of the education secretaries since 2010 all bar three are now gone: Michael Gove, Nicky Morgan, Justine Greening, Damian Hinds, Nadhim Zahawi, Michelle Donnelan, and Gillian Keegan (thanks, Chichester), all gone. Gavin Williamson, Kit Malthouse and James Cleverly survived the night…

Complete draft ✔️ 🥳 Last tasks before we send to our fabulous volunteer readers: • ensure we’ve threaded the conceptual arguments through the more empirical chapters • fix some references and footnotes • harmonise authorial voice… Almost there! 😁

Shit’s getting real! Manuscript workshop booked in for September and delighted to have six super-readers signed up to read a chapter each before we send it to the publishers! 🤞🏻 Title: Constitutionalising Anarchy Authors: Ruth Kinna and Alex Prichard Chapter titles and readers threaded below 1/3

Hahahahahahahha!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🥳🥳🥳🥳😂😂😂😂😬

UK, national parliament election: in South West Norfolk, the constituency of former Prime Minister Liz Truss (CON~ECR), the swing from CON~ECR to LAB-S&D was the largest ever recorded in a national parliament election. Special election result page: europeelects.eu/uk2024/ #GE2024

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The UK is now one of the most left-wing countries in Europe. Did anyone see that coming?

Result of the night? The swing from the Tories to the far left in North Hereford is incredible. Clearly letting agri business turn the river Wye into a sewer doesn’t go down well with locals. But still, you have to be pretty determined to swing that far left.

1) Labour got fewer votes under Starmer than under Corbyn, but secured a landslide 2)Great to see the Greens quadruple their seats, and take two from the Tories! 3)All regional nationalist parties did as well or better than Reform (except SDLP) and all left leaning. 4) fuck off Mogg! 🥳

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Come listen to the likes of Jon Bigger Rhiannon Firth, Sophie Scott-Brown, Loukas Christodolou and Benjamin Franks talk about the polls from a very different perspective. On from now 'til late!

Freedom's Anarchist Election Night Watchalongwww.youtube.com Reaction and analysis from the very people you'd least expect (or you might, if you know anarchists - a lot of us are iredeemable politics wonks).

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The car horns are starting up again in the neighborhood

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What a glorious day! Fuck the Tories!

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My proxy is voting Green for me in Bristol South, I hope, with the good expectation of a second-place finish that will have the Labour MP (the awful apparatchik Karen Smyth) looking over her left shoulder

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I have lived my entire adult life under a Tory government. 14 years of political chaos and ruination. Labour are despicable but boy oh boy will I enjoy the Tory reign coming to an end.

Halcyon at Bristol Fringe last night. Catchy, fun, technically awesome modern jazz, by local millennials. My piano teacher, Sam, on keys. The drummer was outstanding! Saxophonist too. And this was their last ever gig. Out on a high! 👏🏻🙌🏻