Some background on Dickens' concern for the plight of English working conditions.
Josiah Warren's brief affiliation with the IWA.
A short history of one of the utopian communes founded by American anarchist Josiah Warren.
The zenith of Wikipedia?
- 20% of renter households in Richmond were threatened with eviction in 2016
- Of those actually evicted, the median amount owed was $686
- Judgments issued in majority white neighborhoods were far less common
- Mr. Desmond’s eviction calculations are probably conservative: They include only households that touched the legal process, not those in which people moved with an informal warning
CrimethInc on the rise and fall of La ZAD.
"On January 17, 2018, the French government announced on television, via the voice of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, that it had given up on pursuing the highly controversial project of building a new airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes (NDDL). This decision capped five decades of political, economic, legal, environmental, and personal struggle. The airport was to be located approximately 30 kilometers north of the city of Nantes in western France; instead, the site became la ZAD—the Zone a Défendre (Zone To Defend). What began as a small protest camp grew into a world-famous space of autonomous experimentation that lasted almost nine years."
"Ricardo was followed by two able and well-trained pupils — Marx and Marshall. Meanwhile English history had gone right round the corner, and landlords were not any longer the question. Now it was capitalists. Marx turned Ricardo’s argument round this way: Capitalists are very much like landlords. And Marshall turned it round the other way: Landlords are very much like capitalists. Just round the corner in English history you see two bicycles of the very same make — one being ridden off to the left and the other to the right."
"Keynes says the crisis comes about through a lack of ‘effective demand’, namely an unaccountable fall in investment and consumption and this causes profits and wages to fall. Marx says: let’s start with profits. If profits fall, then capitalists would stop investing, lay off workers and wages would drop and consumption would fall. Then there would be a lack of effective demand, as Keynesians like to put it, but this would not be due to a drop in ‘animal spirits’, or ‘confidence’ (we often hear that phrase from economists: ‘a lack of confidence’), or even due to ‘too high’ interest rates, but because profits are down. The problem lies in the nature of capitalist production, not in the finance sector."
An album of songs by anarchist prisoner Sean Swain as recorded by various folk punk musicians.
A short illustrated essay on the criminalization of homelessness.
I'm a fan of Mischief Brew and Erik Petersen, and I just discovered this tribute to his life and music. From the video description:
"Opening with Stan Rogers' The Mary Ellen Carter, The Folks Show on 88.5 WXPN invited the friends and family of Erik Petersen of Mischief Brew to the show to play some covers pay tribute to him. Show opens at around the four minute mark. Songs are interspersed with reminiscing, talk of inspirations, and exactly what you'd expect from this kind of thing.
"Hosted by Ian Zolitor; also present are Erik's partner Denise, his brother Chris, bandmate Shawn, and others."
"The Adventures of Tintin: Breaking Free is an anarchist parody of the popular Tintin series of comics. An exercise in detournement, the book was written under the pseudonym J. Daniels.
"Published by Attack International, the story features a number of characters based on those from the original series by Hergé, notably Tintin himself and Captain Haddock; but not the original themes or plot.
"Attracting the wrath of the tabloid press when it was published, the story tracks Tintin's development from a disaffected, shoplifting youth to a revolutionary leader."
“Elvis was trying to steal the music of the black churches in his songs. So, I decided to steal it back.”
A song about living in the USA.
Good episode of Nostalgia Trap with Yasmin from the Against Equality collective.
Just discovered this anarchist folk punk duo.
"Publishers Dog Section Press say they funded the project from the proceeds of suing the police for unlawful arrest and assault. So, in a way, the police are paying for people to publish mean things about them. "
This is an anarcho-capitalist rap metal group. Politics aside, I like them better than RATM. See also this interview with the frontman by Reason: http://reason.com/archives/2017/04/20/meet-eric-july/