Interregnum is a radical platform run by activist reporters, researchers and writers. We combine culture and critical thought to imagine alternative futures.
05/08/2024
The The Editing Cooperative has started a substack with very useful articles about writing and editing. Check them out, give them a follow.
Building community around academic and creative nonfiction writing and editing. Click to read The Editing Cooperative, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.
09/07/2024
The world is still trying to understand what happened last night in France. Panos Theodoropoulos writes a preliminary reflection on what yesterday's election results mean for antifascist resistance and the wider struggle against neoliberalism.
08/07/2024
An attempt to make sense of yesterday. If you have comrades in France who would like to write and inform us what the f**k is going on, please tell them to contact Interregnum
The world is still trying to understand what happened last night in France. Panos Theodoropoulos writes a preliminary reflection on what yesterday's election results mean for antifascist resistance and the wider struggle against neoliberalism.
08/07/2024
Sam Lawton-Westerland articulates the two routes that lie ahead for Labour in preventing a far-right takeover at the next UK general election, and why Starmer will choose the stupid option.
13/06/2024
Let's leave corporate social media. Find us on Mastodon.
21/05/2024
Breaking the Borders Vol IV on the 22nd of June! Spread the word, bring your friends!
In both events we will be collecting donations for Palestine and for Interregnum, to allow us to keep on doing the work that we do.
Interregnum is a radical platform run by activist reporters, researchers and writers. We combine culture and critical thought to imagine alternative futures.
13/05/2024
NEW ARTICLE!
Siraj Izhar explores the colonial imagination that drives the genocide in Gaza, and what underlies our difficulties of confronting it.
Link in comments.
28/04/2024
Def Ill is a fixture in the Austrian rap scene. Alongside being one of the fastest choppers in the world, he is also a visual artist and an activist. Earlier this year Interregnum caught up with him to talk about his new record, ‘Side Two’, his influences, conspiracy myths, and the origins of hip hop.
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08/04/2024
Don't let the wolf in the door: Electoral politics and fascism.
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30/03/2024
Support the 1in12!
Weʼre raising money to refurbish The 1 in 12 Club. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
26/03/2024
NEW ARTICLE
As the world is focused on the atrocities being enacted in Gaza, activists are blowing the whistle in Masafer Yatta. R.L. Elson shares reports from comrades on the ground.
Link in comments.
14/03/2024
Interregnum is what you make it.
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27/02/2024
New article, link in comments.
Why is hope radical, and what makes it a practice?
18/02/2024
‘Dogs of war’ was a term used by colonial forces in the Americas in the past. Today the term is used by Palestinians to refer to the dogs the IDF routinely use to instill terror. Much more insidious however is the use of dogs by illegal settlers. Their compounds are gated as heavily as any military outpost and the dogs serve as an early warning system. They signal that Israelis should grab their guns.
NEW ARTICLE, LINK IN COMMENTS
11/02/2024
As we witness the unfolding genocide in Gaza, solidarity is essential. However, solidarity is a process, not a singular act. It involves both cultural and political forms of struggle. Above all, it requires confronting the overarching sense of impotence in the face of horror.
02/02/2024
When Hi**er came to power in 1933, his new government carried out their first census with the IBM punch card system. It included a question concerning religious affiliation. However, as Hi**er felt that the initial census did not show as many Jewish people as expected, in the years leading up to the Second World War another three censuses were carried out with a revised question: religious affiliation now became linked to one's grandparents.
The history of International Business Machines (IBM), how they were used by the N***s, and how one statistician gamed the system to save thousands.
14/01/2024
After a ten year break, the German rapper David Asphalt is due to release a new album within 2024. He spoke to Interregnum about music, capitalism, and revolution.
Next week in Glasgow, organised by a member of our collective.
07/01/2024
In our first article for 2024, Christopher Hütmannsberger argues that capitalism destroys artistic creation. Innovation does not come from competition, but rather, from the space to experiment and fail.
Artwork supplied by Eyekonique.
In our first article for 2024, Christopher Hütmannsberger argues that capitalism destroys artistic creation. Innovation does not come from competition, but rather, from the space to experiment and fail.
23/12/2023
Sam Lawton-Westerland examines the class dynamics which are at play in Emerald Fennell's controversial new film Saltburn.
07/12/2023
Anti-racism needs to be much stronger than a call to arms for capitalist or utilitarian exploitation of migrant workers. We need to highlight the common sources of the plight of both British and migrant workers, and foreground the objectives of solidarity, community power, and the overthrow of this economic system as such.
Whether migrants are vilified as 'Thieves' by the establishment or supported by the left in terms of their 'contributions', they are at all times thought of as objects. Panos Theodoropoulos surveys these narratives, and writes that anti-racists must step up their arguments.
05/12/2023
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03/12/2023
Report back from Breaking the Borders Vol. III
The Breaking the Borders antifascist hip hop festivals returned to Glasgow for Volume III, four years after the last event in 2019. This time, Interregnum hosted MCs from Austria, Angola, Venezuela, Portugal, Greece, and of course England and Scotland. Half a decade after Breaking the Borders Vol I,...
22/11/2023
Antifascist, underground hip hop returns to Glasgow on the 30th of November at Bloc+!!! See you there!
Interregnum is a radical platform run by activist reporters, researchers and writers. We combine culture and critical thought to imagine alternative futures.
17/11/2023
Imogen Tyler is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. Her book Stigma: The Machinery of Inequality argues that stigma is deployed by capitalists in order to justify and perpetuate multiple inequalities in today's society. Drawing on her activist work with Morecambe Bay Poverty Truth Commis...
06/11/2023
In our latest article, 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.
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.
25/10/2023
See you on Friday at Kinning Park Complex !
Excited to announce the first Interregnum event in Glasgow. Join us, spread the word!
23/10/2023
Breaking the Borders Vol. III - International Antifa Hip Hop & Party is back!
Many thanks to Hlias SpyOne Tsafaras for the excellent work on the poster.
See you on the 30th of November!
20/10/2023
The current system disempowers victims and fails to reform perpetrators. There is no chance for justice, let alone restorative justice. Victims are dissatisfied at the current system which is adversarial, and offender-oriented. Community-based practices, such as offender-victim and family conferencing, group therapy, and community reparations offer victims far more in the way of justice, and lead to improved psychological outcomes for those with PTSD. Instead of marginalising victims, these methods actively contribute to ensuring just outcomes for survivors. This is the complete opposite of handing that process off to an adversarial justice system which is punitive rather than healing for both victim and perpetrator.
How did Russell Brand go from anti-capitalist spokesman to conspiracy grifter, and what now for the women who've come forward?
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About Us
Interregnum is an independent radical collective based in Glasgow. We reject all forms of class, race, gender, age, sexual, religious, and ethnic oppression. We reject the split between ‘intellectuals’ and ‘common people’ and encourage all who participate in the front-lines of the various raging social struggles to contribute to this blog. This space will host:
-Accurate and well-researched news coverage;
-Militant writings and perspectives on social issues;
-Anything that contributes to the creation of a radical and creative imaginary, such as music, movies, art, etc.;
-Activist call-outs, petitions, and other forms of practical solidarity to ongoing social struggles.
‘Interregnum’ refers to an interim state in which the current social system is unable to create the consent required to guarantee its longevity, and yet its alternative is still not strong enough to replace it. It is in these moments that history can go two ways, and as fascism is on the rise, so are radical new grass-roots perspectives that focus on social liberation. Our aim is to provide, alongside existing valuable initiatives, a further autonomous platform for the dissemination of our ideas and the forging of solidarities between a variety of struggles, both local and global. We strive to imagine new, liberated ways of coexisting, grounded in our deep belief that collaboration is always superior to competition. We hope that this blog is a small step towards our much larger collective project.
The Interregnum collective currently focuses more on issues relating to the political and social circumstances in Scotland and Greece. However we are in full solidarity with movements from all around the world, and encourage submissions from everywhere. We are also open to publishing in other languages.
We welcome contributions that comment on or cover social issues, especially those related to social movements. SEND US YOUR STUFF!