| Naomi Glass |     ‘We need a different society where food is decentralised and people live and work in small rural communities, but this needs massive social change to bring about a new direction and it will not happen overnight, no we are talking about generations of time...

| Marianne Maeckelbergh |   Across southern Europe resistance is taking on a new urgency. In Spain people are speaking of the start of  ‘the real struggle’, while in Greece the term ‘civil war’ permeates the political climate. In both countries a frightening...

| Patrick Chalmers |     People’s budgets The Chancellor George Osborne was talking of his plans to cut a further £10 billion from the UK’s annual welfare budget as I drove through rush-hour traffic to Kingston-upon-Thames. News of his crowd-pleasing speech to the Conservative...

| Adam Payne |   It has been widely described how the oppression and cruelties of the enclosures decimated the fragments of autonomy which the peasants of Britain had until then found in the commons and customary rights. These enclosures of land and resources, along with the resulting...

| Dave Boyle |   What’s the point of a football club? If we look at the motives of its owners, we’d get some strange answers. It could be a millionaire’s pension fund, a property development opportunity, a shot at a capital gain, a millstone, a tax dodge, an ego-trip, a nest-egg, a...

| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh |     The director of Crisis of Civilisation, Dean Puckett, is currently crowdfunding to produce a new documentary that tells the story of a group of land activists in West London.  I asked him about the making of the film, the challenges faced by activists...

| Chris Walsh |   Here in Manchester, like other cities across the UK, individuals and groups are getting serious about the environmental and social impacts of our food and organising in new and enterprising ways to challenge the economic might of supermarkets and...

| Joseph Zacune |     A ‘hot autumn’ is building across southern Europe with a massive series of protests and strikes against cuts to public services. Anti-austerity actions are helping to foster cooperation and solidarity, and the impacts of this are reaching beyond the streets:...

| David Bollier |    Review: Bruce Nixon’s A Better World Is Possible     It is easy to lapse into cynicism when the world is so royally messed up and fortified against serious reform. How does one begin to understand the complexities of climate change, Peak Oil, ecosystem...

| Mark Sands | What am I doing getting on a plane to Chiapas? Well, I might be consuming more carbon fuels but I am looking forward to being in the mountains of South East Mexico to report back on how the latest Kiptik community water project is developing, seeing how life is developing in...

| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh |   After months of authoring, interviewing, editing, illustrating, designing and crowdfunding, STIR Volume One is ready to hand over to the printers at Calverts!  We’ve booked the launch to celebrate its publication and to thank the 160 people who have...

    We’re excited to have opened our new online shop! Check out our newly screen printed Stir Magazine t-shirts and tote bags available to buy online here. In the last few months we’ve invited some amazing illustrators to design t-shirts and tote bags for Stir Magazine. Edd...

| Mat Callahan interviews Cesare Silvi | Cesare Silvi is a mechanical and nuclear engineer who was employed by the Italian government in the mid-1970s to study safety at nuclear power plants. The goal was to design reactors that could withstand any threat be it enemy attack or catastrophes...

| Nina Power | The greatest offence against property was to have none’ –E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class The verb form of “riot” indicates both the taking part in one (or many) and a sense of dissolution — ‘he has rioted away his life’, as one 1920s posh...

| Derek Wall |   Capitalism has failed.  Leaving the care of society to the market has led to massive inequality, climate chaos and financial crisis.  The system is indeed one of zombie economics, the doctrine is dead but the beast still walks amongst us.  It reminds me of the...

| Megan Saunders |   They say, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Well, our food system is broken, and it does need fixing…fast. The cogs of the 21st century global food system turn, but are in need of (sustainable) oiling to help transition smoothly towards a viable and secure food...

| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh interviews Lee Hall |   I interviewed the Playwright Lee Hall about the uneasy relationship between the working class and art, how we can still produce art outside of commerce and fiscal motives, and if we are prepared to respond to the political and cultural...

| Dr. John Gurney | The Runneymede Eco Village has, at the time of writing, continued in being for seven weeks, despite the bad summer weather and the frequent and inevitable attempts by the authorities to move the Diggers on. The action began on 9 June, with a march from Syon Lane Community...

| Eli Smith | The Brooklyn Folk Festival, The Washington Square Park Folk Festival, Down Home Radio and the Jalopy Theatre Six years ago I was working as an audio technician at the short-lived Liberal talk radio network Air America Radio.  During that time I got to know some of the...