Anarchist Black Dragon: Volume 1, Issue 8, February 1981
Issue 8 of Anarchist Black Dragon. This issue was mainly edited by the outside solidarity committee based in Montreal as the inside members of the ABD collective were all underground, in restrictive segregation or had been exiled to other prisons as a result of their active involvement in the struggle. Features news of charges being dropped against Carl Harp, a strike movement at Walla Walla, a letter from an ex-SLA member, a trial following from the Pontiac uprising in Illinois, the Marion Federal Control Unit, Leonard Peltier, a controversial article called "Dungeons & Dragons" criticizing Black separatism, a review of Discipline & Punish, and more.
Anti State, Anti Capital, Anti Psychiatry
Anti-psychiatry is the belief that the psychiatric system is a system of social control masquerading behind made-up science. The Marxist anti-psychiatry movement failed because of it's overly intellectual focus and the inability of its key thinkers to put theory into practice. However, with mental health very much on the political agenda, there are lessons that can be learned from the work of R D Laing and David Cooper.
Consumer Medicine: what sort of power do we have?
Towards a futurology of the present - Marco Cuevas-Hewitt
Marco Cuevas-Hewitt outlines an emerging practice amongst radical writers; one entailing an attentiveness to intimations of alternative futures arising in the present. This "futurology of the present", as he calls it, represents a significant break with the hackneyed jeremiads and manifestos of earlier political generations, which limit themselves either to a simple negation of the present or to the authoritarian prescription of an idealised future. Delving into questions around the role of artists and writers in social movements and wider society, Cuevas-Hewitt's goal is a re-imagining of radical politics and a re-tooling of radical writerly practice.
All quiet on the workplace front?
A critique of recent trends in British industrial sociology
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