Having worked around the music industry for many years, mainly as an organiser of benefit gigs and now running an online platform, I can say that artists are rightly fearful about what may soon occur. Deal or no deal. Since one of their income sources (actual record sales) disappeared into cyberspace they’ve pretty much relied
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UK Workers Rights Bill and the spectre of capitalism
The latest piece of legislation unveiled by our government emerges not as a beacon of hope, but as a harbinger of betrayal ~ Mark McEwan ~ As the sun rises each day over the grey skies of the United Kingdom, we find ourselves staring into the abyss of a systemic failure that has plagued workers
The Death of Leninism
I was trapped in Leninism and read swathes of Lenin’s rhetoric – now I know the anarchists were right all along ~ Killian Flynn ~ Amongst the shadow puppets of English radicalism, lie inert various guises of Leninism: self-perpetuating central committees run tiny irrelevant organisations and use them as a vector to punt their books
Clean energy can’t save us
From green consumerism to degrowth and radical systemic change ~ Yavor Tarinski ~ It is a good thing that there is increasingly more talk about the looming catastrophe that threatens our societies because of climate change and deepening ecological crises.
Hate fascism, hate the spectacle: Far right wins Austrian elections
Instead of self-righteous identity politics, our practice should oppose fake empowerment narratives ~ Anon Grata ~ A right-wing populist party has won the elections in yet another European country—but as the international media reminds us, it’s not any country: it’s both the birthplace of the leader of historical Nazi-Fascism, and the cradle of modern post-fascist
Cowley Club Interview: “Every community can benefit from a social centre”
One of UK’s longest running social centres, the Cowley Club is Brighton is structured as a members-run co-operative ~ Interviewed by Zosia Brom ~ Can you tell us about who you are and how it all started and what are your activities?