photo credit: 500CPM
A rather strange figure is moving to centre stage in Irish politics, that of the trade unions – absent from mass struggles until recently and weakened over the decades of social partnership, they are now the only possible source of a movement that can confront attemps to transfer the cost of the [...]
photo credit: cinocino
In a special themed issue of Green Pepper, Foti and the Chain Workers Collective sketched a very attractive understanding of the work discipline of contemporary capitalism. In their understanding, society had found itself in a situation of profound disjuncture with our working pasts – life today was defined by contingent employment rather [...]
photo credit: murphyz
On 2 March 2010, the Government decided to begin the process for declaring certain substances to be controlled. A large number of these are products sold at head-shops as legal highs, but the most well known are mephedrone and methylone, and other related cathinones products. Cathinones derive from the khata plant and [...]
photo credit: (V)oluntary (?)mputation
After years of relative quiet on the industrial front, union acquiescence and the isolation of our own networks, it’s no wonder the historical IWW haunts the imagination of so many radicals? A number of years ago Franklin Rosemont, Illinois based and a wobbly red card carrier himself, carved out a massive [...]
Giro’s was a fairly legendary social centre or collective space opened as a beacon of hope and a non-sectarian zone of engagement in the rather bleak Belfast of the 1980’s. This documentary was made by Northern Visions, a community media organisation that broadcasts up Norf and churns out quality material at a remarkable rate. [...]
photo credit: nateOne
Mother Jones, a US investigative journalism magazine of a sound leftist bent, can always be relied on for carrying photo essays of immediate relevance. Over the past few years, they’ve harboured some amazing features on the fall out economic recession and consequent retail decline in the states – from job losses, to [...]
photo credit: A Wall In Guelph
If you ever find yourself in the often unfortunate position of having to design something, yet are breaking out with zero ideas on where to go, gawking around several online look books is a sure fire starter for the creative juices. One of the best online resources in this [...]
Excellent. I’d been dying for some online version of this to materialize since the trailer came to my attention back in 2007 (shit time flies). Got an email from the production team behind the piece today saying they’d upped it to Youtube yesterday. Perfect viewing for these recessionary days, the 40 minute [...]
“So which path will lead us through the immense forest of noise with which history presents us?” (Jaques Attali, 1996, orig. 1977, p. 19)
“In the imperial world the economist, for example, needs a basic knowledge of cultural production to understand the economy, and likewise the cultural critic needs a basic knowledge of economic processes to understand [...]
photo credit: Graham Coreil-Allen
(A Review of Dancing in the Streets A History of Collective Joy. by Barbara Ehrenreich) published in some form or other in North Eastern Anarchist 14.
Anyone that’s gathered around their local bonfire in Dublin on Hallow’een, and entered a flight of fancy long enough to feel the tension between festivity, rehearsed [...]
