“There's really no such thing as ‘the voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” — Arundhati Roy
In an era of unprecedented information pollution, climate collapse, and an ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, The SilenceBreaker intends to offer a breath of fresh air, using plain language to help break the silence on political perspectives you're unlikely to hear from the establishment media of Late Stage Capitalism. The articles stored here document the failures of state socialism and the futility of electoral politics, arriving now at "the beautiful idea" of direct democracy. All articles on The SilenceBreaker are available for other outlets to republish free of charge, simply by crediting this site and linking back to it.
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Founder of SilenceBreaker Films, then later SilenceBreaker Media, media activist Jay Baker (they/he) has largely operated outside — and in opposition to — establishment media for 25 years, compiling the articles you'll find here as well as writing for the likes of Freedom News, Organise Magazine and as a contributor to Indymedia in its early days, reporting from protests and picket lines, sit-ins and squats, documenting various anti-fascist political protests and movements, and interviewing the likes of Kate Wilson, Prem Sikka, Teresa Hayter, Peter Tatchell, Shami Chakrabarti, Richard Murphy, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson, as well as numerous other campaigners, academics, activists, and unsung heroes of anti-capitalist struggle. The SilenceBreaker initiative continues here.