You may recall that on October 1st, 2017, there was a referendum held in Catalonia where the people were to decide whether or not their semi-autonomous region should secede entirely from Spain. …

November 11th is Remembrance Day, also known as the anniversary of the ending of World War One, and in many countries a day devoted to honouring those who were killed in various wars over the last century. Additionally, part of the original purpose of Remembrance Day is to acknowledge the…

This article was originally published on the German Pirate Party website, as a guest blog contribution for Indigenous Peoples Day: https://www.piratenpartei.de/2017/08/09/indigenous-peoples-day-2017/ One of the main political issues that the Pirate movement tends to focus on is surveillance. But one aspect of this that we must acknowledge, especially in Canada, is…

I think it is interesting how so many people on the right, particularly the “alt-right”, are using free speech narratives to further their campaigns of hate, and accusing anyone who vocally opposes their views of being “against free speech”. Canada’s far-right journalists at The Rebel Media responded to the Quebec…

Saturday was International Men’s Day. “Fuck that shit! Every day is International Men’s Day!” Sure. There’s definitely truth to that. The world is very male-dominated and always has been. Women have historically been subjugated, our roles and accomplishments in society either downplayed or erased entirely. History is often recorded and…

As part of a new grassroots campaign to free Julian Assange, April.30th is the second day of action under #JA4Me where people all over the world are encouraged to mobilize in support of the WikiLeaks founder, who has been arbitrarily detained by the United Kingdom and Sweden since 2010. On…

After my first post, “Why This Radical Leftist is Disillusioned by Leftist Culture” (https://medium.com/@UptheCypherPunx/why-this-radical-leftist-is-disillusioned-by-leftist-culture-63419aa85a58#.ddgyzvq17) unexpectedly went as viral as it did, I was overwhelmed by the feedback, both positive and negative. Countless people told me that I had expressed exactly what they were thinking, and some even said that they…

I will always believe in “The Revolution”. But I am becoming very frustrated with modern “activist” culture. First of all, I’m tired of watching people turn into pretentious assholes who think their activism makes them better than everyone else, even those oppressed and marginalized groups with whom they claim “allyship”. …