Cities under siege: the new urban militarism - Stephen Graham Psychogeographical look at the ever increasing encroachment of militarism and high tech surveillance…
This is why workers shoot their employers - Mark Ames Short piece giving context to workplace killings and arguing that it's not enough to handwring.
The freedom of the press - George Orwell George Orwell's original preface to Animal Farm about unofficial censorship of the press in the UK, a supposedly "democratic" country. In a…
Keep the aspidistra flying - George Orwell Not wanting to be concerned with money or a safe life typified by a house with an aspidistra plant, a copywriter quits his job to become an…
Down and out in Paris and London - George Orwell Tramping memoirs from Orwell, where he worked in Paris as a dishwasher and then travelled around London, going from one bedsit to another.
Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton Late 30s novel following George Harvey Bone and his similarly unemployed feckless acquaintances in and out of Earl's Court pubs, with war and…
Animal Farm, a fairy story - George Orwell Erroneously considered a damning of collectivism, Orwell's allegorical fantasy is a critique of the Bolshevist and Stalinist regimes set on a…
1984 - George Orwell A world with constant surveillance, perpetual war and a militarised police state, George Orwell's most famous novel was a warning against…
Unemployed struggles in Leeds in 1908 A short account of unemployed agitation in Leeds in 1908 and anarchist involvement in it
Q - Luther Blissett Set in the time of tremendous religious and political upheaval caused by the Reformation in Europe, Q begins with Luther nailing his 95 theses on…
Two anarchists defending tenants from eviction are arrested in Moscow On January 19th, 39 activists were arrested in central Moscow with anarchists among them. They were…
Guilt, choice, and responsibility in the austerity kitchen Some thoughts on low-income cooking, health, guilt, and the punishment of the poor.
