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Fragment of album cover for Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Fragment of album cover for Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

A Movement of Long Knives: Death in June, Alternative Nationalism, and Building a New Anti-Fa

In the wake of recent protests around the neo-folk(and neo-fascist) band Death In…

Farewell, Fellow Worker: Joe Glazer

An obituary of labor folk singer Joe Glazer.

A Sideways Look – Sounds Like London

A short review of "Sounds LIke London" by Lloyd Bradley.

Black Circle Records: Reflections on the consequences of conflict in light of the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza

Black Circle Records have released a compilation of underground noise/electronic…

Haden, Charlie, 1937-2014

A short obituary of the seminal jazz bassist and anti-war activist Charlie Haden, who died last week.

Werqin’ 9 to 5: cursory notes on antiwork politics from Dolly Parton to Shangela Laquifa - Spitzenprodukte

Spitzenprodukte considers autonomist anti-work politics through the lenses of songs…

Pussy Riot convicted: Britain rails against “disproportionate” sentence - hypocritically

The UK also has no qualms over disproportionate sentencing or criminal sanctions…

Political hiphop in Brum

Pleasantly surprised by some midlands hip-hop

Should Rihanna loot small businesses, or chain stores?

Blog discussing the ethics of Rihanna's looting choices, from a communist perspective.

Mr. R's album cover.

The Politics Of French Rap

This is a small section of a far longer text about music, called "Some Musical Notes" which was originally published on the old endangered…

Johnny Hallyday album cover from the early 60s

The Poverty of French Rock ‘n’ Roll by Larry Portis

This is chapter 6 of Larry Portis' book French Frenzies. Larry Portis died a week ago near Ales in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of the South…

Working on a decaying dream - Kollectiv

The Kollectiv look at Bruce Springsteen in the context of class disintegration and place him firmly in the decadent tradition of Balzac and…