Music and the IWW: the creation of a working class counterculture - RudolfTB This article discusses how the early IWW used music both as an organising tool and as a means of…
The Basic Alternative Education of a Chinese Punk Translation of an autobiographical essay by Tang Shui'en, mainland Chinese anarchist musician and activist, recounting his path from childhood in…
Hong Kong: Where anarchists and blackbirds sing about freedom Brief report on anarchist elements in the Hong Kong activist scene ca. 2009, focusing on Lenny Guo of the band Blackbird, veteran of the 70s Front.
Acid comment: the moral panic about acid house parties - The Red Menace Article looking at the media hysteria surrounding the Acid House music subculture of the late 1980s.
Class struggle and hip-hop: interview with Comrade Malone, 2009 Hip-hop has seen artists with social and political awareness. Rarely, however, has there been hip…
Reservoir of poses - Gregor Jamroski This article first appeared in the early 1980’s in New York and an edited version was republished a few years later in an obscure, apparently one…
Small Axe by Verbal Terrorists Geordie hip-hop crew the Verbal Terrorists’ Small Axe brings forthright radical messages to agitate, educate and entertain. Tom Jennings goes with the flow.
The 3rd World, by Immortal Technique and DJ Green Lantern (Viper Records 2008) The new release from Immortal Technique, hip-hop’s most implacable class warrior, thoroughly links…
The middle-class blues This new track by XL Middleton, I think could resonate with many working people...
Saul Williams, The Fader Label, 2005. Music review Review which finds that Saul Williams fails to translate potent political polemics into poetic musical magic...