Author: - The Reykjavik Grapevine

“Good things happen slowly,” Björn Bjarnason, Iceland’s former Minister of Justice, wrote on his blog in March of last year…

Since the local fish factory in Stöðvarfjörður closed down in 2005 and its 32 employees lost their jobs, the eastern…

In late October last year, a group of burka-dressed women who called themselves Big Sister, announced that they had “gone…

Criminal court cases, waged by The State against political dissidents for acts of protest and civil disobedience, can be understood…

Those who are yet to give up on Icelandic media cannot have avoided noticing one Kristján Már Unnarsson, a news…

Friday September 2, two men appeared in court in downtown Reykjavík. It wasn’t their first time—and it probably won’t be…

When Helgi Hóseasson passed away two years ago, he had since the 1930s fought a harsh fight to get the…

In a very short time the discourse following last week’s right-wing terrorist attacks in Norway reached both absurd and scary…

An anarchist interested in history might want to take an ‘oppression tour’ around the city, checking out important power-symbols like…

A little more than a year ago, several Icelandic bankers were arrested and kept in custody in relation to the…

Words are weapons. Controlling language—the meaning of words, which words exist and which do not—is the ruling powers’ fundamental premise…

December 8 marks the two-year anniversary of an event that was later turned into a textbook example of political persecution….

When today’s upswing of fascism and neo-Nazism is discussed, referring to Nazi Germany is a certain taboo and a sidetracking…

There are countless reasons for Magma Energy not being allowed to purchase HS Orka. Those who have no idea why…