Reviews
Book Review: Breaking the Spell – A History of Anarchist Filmmakers
January 19th: When I decided to destroy any chances at a film-making career, and to instead dedicate my life to producing videos that would hopefully propel people to destroy capitalism, well, there was no road map.
Book Review: Ethics, Politics, and Anarcho Punk Identifications
January 11th: Like many anarchists who came of age in the 1990s, my first exposure to anarchism came through the punk scene.
Review: Syria’s Disappeared by Sara Afshar
January 4th: The Syrian government led by president Bashar al-Assad is responsible for systematic and widespread torture targeting its opponents, activists and civilians.
Film Review: New Town Utopia
November 23rd: Directed by Christopher Ian Smith Release date: 2018 Running time: 80 minutes ‘New Town Utopia is a feature documentary film about utopian dreams and concrete realities…
Book Review: Divide and Conquer or Divide and Subdivide?
October 30th: by Mark Leier ISBN: 978-1-62963-383-1 PP: 32 Publisher: PM Press 2017 £4.50 ($5.95) This pamphlet is by the author of the best biography of Bakunin, Bakunin: The Creative Passion, Mark Leier and covers the Marx-Bakunin conflict in the First International.
Book Review: +KAOS Ten years of Hacking and Media Activism
October 26th: Autistici/Inventati 139pp Link to book.
Book Review: Squatting in Britain 1945-1955
August 25th: by Norman Spinrad ISBN: 978-1-60486-810-4 PP: 264 Publisher: The Merlin Press £16.99 After World War II, many people squatted empty properties, often government-owned ex-Army camps, since a housing crisis had been created as a result of the hugely damaged housing stock, slow state action to build new homes and a huge influx of returning servicemen as well
Film Review: Dunkirk
August 17th: Directed by Christopher Nolan Released Jul 2017 Running Time 106 minutes Nolan’s Dunkirk amounts to a nostalgic remake of a 1950s World War II film where the brilliant cinematography and immersive sound fails to make up for the nationalist myth making and glorification of war.
Book review: Raising Hell
August 10th: by Norman Spinrad ISBN: 978-1-60486-810-4 PP: 128 Publisher: PM Press, 2014 £9.99 Raising Hell opens this installment of Outspoken Authors (OA) with a doozy: union organisers, sentenced to Hell, unionise demons and eventually help Lucifer with his own identity crisis.
Book review: Against Doom — A Climate Insurgency Manual
August 3rd: by Jeremy Brecher ISBN: 978-1-62963-385-5 PP: 128 Publisher: PM Press 2017 £11.99 Easy to read 100 page book about how to collaborate and proactively work to stop the end of the world — or at least the extermination of humanity — aka climate change.
