culture
Princess Diana Spencer obituary
Most socialist and anarchist comment has missed the most relevant point about the life and death of Diana, even in Freedom (20th September 1997). This is that Diana was the most spectacular example of the 'spectacular society' since the concept was launched.
Anarchy in Milton Keynes
Colin Ward examines interlocking musical communities in Milton Keynes, as described by anthropologist Ruth Finnegan's book The Hidden Musicians: music-making in an English town. In these cultural networks Ward sees evidence of anarchist tendencies and strains in society
After You've Gone... (Humanist funerals)
AFTER YOU'VE GONE....
Sadly, we have reflected a lot about funerals recently. How his funeral was conducted was important to Albert Meltzer, not least because he had seen so many old comrades and friends receive totally inappropriate send offs. Our secular correspondent (see note below) takes up this theme in the article below.
Land and Freedom (review)
This review of the Ken Loach film Land & Freedom first appeared in Black Flag #207
Land & Freedom
(or: I Couldn't Afford the Rights to Homage to Catalonia)
Okuzai Kenzo's crusade
Tearing Out the Truth
Okuzai Kenzo's Crusade makes the Film of the Decade, by Tom Gill
Presented in PDF format (435kb).
A review of Yuki Yukite shingun aka The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On by Kazuo Hara, containing historical detail.
Cops and ravers
One raver, Adam, talks candidly about his personal experiences of the low-level police campaign that began against the scene as he got involved in it in Suffolk last year
I started going partying about a year ago. My first real party was in the Halloween of 2004, I was heavily impressed by the unity between people at parties and the buzz I felt just going to one.
The Modern Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought
SO LONG as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often succeed in suppressing such manifestations.
Marx and the Fourfold Vision of William Blake
In the book by EO Abbott called Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions, 'A Square' tries to persuade his fellow two-dimensional beings - triangles, hexagons, and so on - that other dimensions are possible. William Blake lived in a four-dimensional moral world, and for that reason he was considered quite mad by ordinary citizens.
Situationist International on Films
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Situationist International on Films
-On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Period of Time
-Critique of Separation
Pre-Situationist International Documents
Pre-Situationist International Documents
A series of documents by later SI members.
