One of the most powerful and enduring images of 2022 was that of Graffitti activists removing sunbeds and reclaiming Comino for the public on two separate occasions during the summer lull. What lies behind Graffitti’s winning streak?
Graffitti are a tough nut to crack for Labour: it is confused on how to react to direct actions that defend the commons, like the ‘reclaim Comino’ event
The upshot, of course, is that nothing ever gets done at all, about the constant of encroachment of public land by greedy developers – or any analogous environmental issue, for that matter – until a point is reached when ‘civil disobedience’