The SilenceBreaker is a newsletter and zine by media activist Jay Baker, for people sick of Late Capitalism and keen to create a better world.
The SilenceBreaker is a newsletter and zine by media activist Jay Baker, for people sick of Late Capitalism and keen to create a better world.
What is it? It's a punk DIY anticapitalist and anifascist media initiative that, for over twenty-five years, has refused to be bought or compromised, not coincidentally offering perspectives you rarely hear from the clickbait media of the capitalist class, clout chasers, and conspiracy theorists in this era of increasing information pollution.
Still uncompromising, you won't find SilenceBreaker content today on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, or other corporate, billionaire-owned "Big Tech" sites that freely promote fascism – only on non-centralised, democratic social networks like the Fediverse.
The SilenceBreaker's origins, however, can be traced back to the turn of the millennium. Since that time, it has utilised many multimedia forms – from fiction and non-fiction films, to video and tech community workshops, to articles online as well as occasionally offline as a printed zine doing the rounds underground, across two continents and under various formal and informal structures, with a variety of collaborators. Ultimately, though, it has remained a project by the only one stubborn enough to keep it going: me, Jay Baker. And to be fair, it's had its challenges.
Aside from finding myself listed as an enemy on the fascist website Redwatch, SilenceBreaker videos have literally been held to ransom, web domains have been seized, and sites have been hacked — but The SilenceBreaker has somehow endured.
Here on a subdomain of my own site, you can find access to some of the rescued content, and soon buy back-issues as a zine and view video archives. You can also read about the limitations of electoral politics and the contradictions of state socialism (documented through the articles) – and, more importantly, how you can utilise media to help make the world a better place.
On this site, you’ll find no paywalls, no corporate or state funding, no conspiracy theories, no press releases or product promotions disguised as news, no ads, no "AI," and no non-essential cookies. You can also republish this content free of charge, simply by crediting this site and linking back to it.