British Anarchism in Decline/Renewal (delete as appropriate)

From Organise! by Spindrift

Its very easy to feel as though anarchism is in decline. What we hardly ever discuss is what success looks like. Maybe it’s a bit too neo-liberal to form a focus group and discuss how we measure success. A decade ago, I left London and moved to a small town in the middle of England. I was very involved with the group Class War at the time and we were really active then. I regularly went back to the capital for a bit of action. We had a bizarre election campaign going on for the 2015 general election, there was a weekly “Poor Doors” protest on the edge of the City of London and it wouldn’t be long before a campaign started to get rid of the Jack the Ripper Museum in Tower Hamlets. We got lots of publicity for these things and we enjoyed it. Anarchism felt to me like it was thriving.

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