The trial - Franz Kafka Franz Kafka's seminal novel, telling the tale of Joseph K, a respectable functionary in a bank, who is suddenly arrested and must defend his…
Asbo your neighbours! A member of one of London’s most experienced community action groups has hit out against the ‘hidden agenda’ of a new measure to give ASBO powers to Tenant Management Organisations.
Hegel on acid - A response to 'Marxists and the so-called problem of imperialism' A reply to a Wildcat (UK) discussion document of the late 1980s. This article makes some interesting…
On security and terror - Giorgio Agamben "We can say that politics secretly works towards the production of emergencies." A short article written in response to the 9-11 attacks by the…
Panopticism - Michel Foucault “Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?” This is chapter 3 of Foucault’s…
A brief history of the state of exception - Giorgio Agamben An excerpt from the 2005 book State of Exception which serves as a good introduction to Agamben’s…
Why ex-Kings are a Danger This piece appeared in Black Flag #207, which came out around January 1996. Conspiracy theorists might be interested in the remarkable prescience…
If Voting Changed Anything... A critical article on the electoralism of Murray Bookchin and the Independent Working Class Association from Black Flag #207 (1995)
