The Power to Stay: Magical Realism from SF’s Mission This post originally appeared on my blog, Outside the Circle, with a bunch of photos; see http://cbmilstein.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/the-power-to…
Ghost Stories from SF: Art Mirrors Life This piece was originally posted on my Outside the Circle blog, at http://cbmilstein.wordpress.com/2014/04/30/ghost-stories-from-sf-art-mirrors…
Mayday 2014: reports from around the world With International Workers' Day taking place in a world riven by economic crisis, we're sharing short reports, pictures and videos on May Day…
Solidarity Federation wins unpaid wages in Newcastle Just in time for May Day, another pay packet win for SolFed - this time it's Newcastle Local's turn.
The Selfish Giant, directed by Clio Barnard This carefully crafted rites of passage drama contests mainstream contempt for the poor while pulling no punches regarding their increasingly…
Spokes on the anti-austerity wheel: building movements that can move beyond reform When it comes to fighting the crisis of austerity cuts and financial recession, we need to focus on…
Selections from the prison notebooks - Antonio Gramsci Almost five hundred pages of Gramsci's writings on history, culture, politics, and philosophy. From…
Ukraine: only action of the proletariat can stop nationalist war Analysis of the situation in Ukraine as the conflict between pro-Russian and Ukrainian nationalists deepens by Trídní Válka. The English translation of this text is not great but we still feel it contains important points.
Why hunter-gatherers' work is play - Peter Gray Excellent article by Dr Peter Gray, explaining how hunter-gatherer societies lack a conception of "work" as they make no distinction between work…
A reply to Mark Fisher on magical voluntarism Short article exploring the idea of magical voluntarism and how it relates to questions of organisation.
Report from a visit in Kiev in April 2014 It seems that many perceptions of the Maidan-uprising and the internal dynamics inside and outside the Ukraine are twisted or wrong, especially…