Number 36
In this issue:
- Toxic clouds of capitalism
- Envisioning a post-Western world
- On the knife’s edge
- Anarchy in Hamburg
- Anarchy in London
- Blocking the arms fair
- Acorninfo
1. Toxic clouds of capitalism
On Sunday August 27 crowds of people enjoying a day on the beach at Birling Gap near Eastbourne, East Sussex, suddenly started coughing and spluttering, and rubbing their eyes, before fleeing the coast en masse.
They had fallen victim to a cloud of chemical gas, later identified as chlorine, which had drifted onto the southern English coast from the Channel. Some 150 people were treated in hospital in what was described by emergency services as “a major incident“.
The mainstream media reaction to this nightmarish episode was predictably understated and narrow, restricting itself to speculation as to where the poison gas may have specifically come from – Rotterdam, maybe, or northern France, or a…
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