Is life worth living or should I blast myself? An account of being a juvenile delinquent and having to live with a family who had a multitude of issues.
Speed & politics: an amphetamine political economy Building on the society of stimulation, this long-read post is a theoretical examination of pharmacology as material practice and as metaphor…
Infinite jest - David Foster Wallace Somewhere in the not-so-distant future, the screwed-up residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at…
Stefano Cucchi, killed by police and drug prohibitionism On June 5th, after four years, sentencing in the Cucchi case has finally taken place. The court gave…
The sick society - Miguel Amorós A veritable catalogue of environmental and biological disasters brought to us by capitalism followed by some suggestions for their remedy: …
Factotum - Charles Bukowski The only person to have made a writing career about yo-yoing in and out of employment, Bukowski accounts the conditions in 1944 having faced…
Drug use, the labour market and class conflict - John Helmer and Thomas Vietorisz A social history and analysis of drug use and its relationship with class struggle.
Stop Snitching - Curtis Price An article from The Baltimore Indypendent Reader in 2007, which while it has a lot of local focus, has wider points on the fragmentation and…
Waiting for the barbarians - Jaime Semprun In this essay written after the LA Riots of 1992, Jaime Semprun expresses a pessimistic view of the new "barbarians", the uncivilized youth who…
From coca to capital: free trade cocaine John Barker on the 'War on Drugs', unequal free trade legislation, and their relationship with capitalism and its woes more broadly.
Obama administration takes strong stance against pot legalization Once again, President Obama’s administration is standing in the way of pro-working class, civil…
Rebel violence vs. hierarchical violence, UK 1985-86 A chronology of anti-hierarchical violence in mainland UK, July 1985 - May 1986. A bit of nostalgia and/or a lesson in over-optimism? A text from…
