Blogs

Empire of the Sun - walking on a dream (Van She Tech remix)
Aussie collaborative effort Empire of the Sun gets the rework treatment from compatriots Van She. The outcome is sublime:
http://www.savefile.com/files/1806124

MGMT - Kids
From their outstanding debut album, Oracular Spectacular.

"It's a nice idea but it'll never work." That's the killer sentence which is thrown at anarchists time and again by people trying to justify capitalism. Yet year after year, these same people either rely on, or probably give time/money to, a vast network of aid organisations which aim to put a bandage on the worst excesses of their favoured 'ism'.

Issue no----Issue date (Saturday)-----Copy deadline

7001--------17th January---------------- 8th January
7002-------- 31st January--------------- 22nd January
7003-------- 14th February------------- 5th February
7004-------- 28th February------------- 19th February
7005-------- 14th March----------------- 5th March
7006-------- 28th March----------------- 19th March

Some of the best stuff thats been released this year. And no, theres none of that shit that gets produced by politicos who form punk, folk, or, (god forbid) reggae bands to 'spread the message'. Links are to external sites, nothing is hosted here.

Parts and Labour - Receivers

150 ml coke
150 ml pineapple juice
1 large shot rum
1 large shot tequilla

The picture is of Jeff 'self-decribed anarchist' Monson, a well-known professional fighter with, you may note, a red and black star on his chest, just over his heart.

To start off, Kap10Kurt - Danger Seekers, 2008:

Julie Bindel’s nomination for the Journalist of the Year prize (which she didn’t win) at the Stonewall awards this month ignited a storm of controversy, with many within the broad 'LGBTQ community’ outraged at the organisation’s recognition of a commentator with a long record of writing which they see as ridden with ‘transphobia’.

I'm not going to comment on the borrowing aspect of all this, because it's fairly obvious that yes, it's alot, and yes, it's a big risk (though not so much as the press is going on about, it's basically the same as France works with).

But I have found the talk of 'redistributionist taxation' somewhat confusing as a conclusion from the following figures:

Political debate often tends to quickly polarise into simple binaries. This is perhaps even more so online. Mainstream politics has its liberals/conservatives and left/right; radical politics has its anarchist/Marxist and reform/revolution.

Make no mistake, Barrack Obama's victory in the United States does not mean liberation for black people any more than Margaret Thatcher's government was a victory for the women's movement. Neither does it herald a new dawn for the world, as mainstream commentary would have us believe.

It has to be one of the best-kept secrets in class struggle anarchism (and we aren't exactly high-profile to start with).

http://www.fluofiles.com/idibizzle/XL%20Middleton%20-%20Middle%20Class%20Blues.mp3

A new initiative from a few people in London, including Ian Bone and raw (one of the leading lights of the ex-Wombles and more recently of the London Anarchists network) which has both interesting and controversial elements to it is the Price Reduction campaign, which they intend to discuss in November and possibly l

On more serious notes, the economic crisis is examined from the perspective of a hedge fund manager, religious significance in the US presidential elections is explored, as is the changing role in the definition of what an American is in terms of racial identity, and ethnic cleansing in a little-known province of Georgia is reported.

According to a new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, there has been a “remarkable” drop in inequality in the UK since 2000.

Other picks examine the exorbitant recent increase in energy charges in the UK, the phenomenon of polygamy in parts of the US, and the role played by religious belief and doctrine in the shaping of the American political system.

Monday 20 October - 8 - 9pm - Channel 4 - Dispatches: The Truth about Your Energy Bill

Other picks highlight the grisly practice of "Muti Murders" whereby the vulnerable in South Africa are murdered for their body parts, the shooting of an unarmed peace activist in Gaza and a historical perspective on American attitudes to warmongering.

Monday 13 October - 9 -11pm - Channel 4 - The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

Though I can’t help feeling somewhat decadent in writing a blog post about a theoretical article written a quarter of a century ago at a time when severe economic crisis is presenting the opportunity to drive home the anti-capitalist perspective as never before, I find myself with free time in which to write some thoughts on a re-reading of Gilles Dauvé’s [url=http://www.libcom.org/library/fo

Other highlights are an examination of Russia's renewed impact on the world political stage and an investigation into the expansion of, and services provided, by lap dancing clubs. Also the extreme tactics used in American political circles to bring about wanted election results are examined by profiling one such influential individual.