The Northwood and Pinner hospital occupation, 1983 A very short history of the occupation of the small Northwood and Pinner hospital in London, which successfully prevented its proposed closure.
The Hayes Cottage hospital occupation, 1983 Historical information about and images from the occupation of Hayes Cottage hospital by its workers, who took over the establishment and ran it…
Robin Williams, mental illness, and the stigma epidemic The tragic death of Comedian Robin Williams, in an apparent suicide, has placed the issues of mental…
NHS agency spend: the hidden truth In 1997 the NHS spent over £700 million on agency nurses. This year the figure will have risen to over £2.5 billion. Why pay outrageous amounts…
Denais, Paul (1922-2014) A short biography of Paul Denais, doctor and libertarian communist, active within French movement
Royal College of Nursing: the voice of the establishment The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) represents most of the nurses employed within the NHS and has a…
The struggle of the Belchatow hospital workers: why it is so important The ZSP union in Poland is currently involved in several important struggles against the…
Rhythms: second movement Second post on the subject of rhythms. Begins to explore the idea that madness may be an experience of corporeal rhythms, and that power operates…
Unproductive bodies [part 2]: vulnerability and pharmaco-syndicalism Second part of two piece article on the production of dependent bodies. Introduces the idea of vulnerability and what could be called pharmaco-syndicalism, or autonomous pharmacological practice (and idea that will be returned to elsewhere).
Public sector outsourcing and class warfare An investigation into the ways in which outsourcing and the threat of outsourcing is used as a weapon of class warfare and labour discipline in…
A reply to Mark Fisher on magical voluntarism Short article exploring the idea of magical voluntarism and how it relates to questions of organisation.
The nervousness of politics A brief look at Plan C/ the Institute for Precarious Consciousness's recent theses on anxiety. The claim that anxiety is the hegemonic affect of…
