Archive for category: Regular Features

Editorial: March 2016

Editorial: March 2016

We are living through times of emboldened reaction, where far-right politics gain ground in European Parliaments and on European streets, where the mainstream right increasingly overlaps with the KKK and white supremacy shows itself more unabashedly. As people who seek the abolition of capital, the state, and classes, we also […]

Editorial: August 2015

Editorial: August 2015

Up to a hundred people put up fierce resistance to a south London immigration raid in June, despite intense violence from riot police, who came in numbers to support the UKBA’s racist and deadly border enforcement. This state violence is merely a more explicit component of an otherwise general assault […]

Editorial: April 2015

Editorial: April 2015

The 2015 general election, and electoral politics further afield, have dominated much of the last few months. As various political parties clamour for our attention, hoping we might grant “permission” to lay hands on the mechanisms of governance, it can be difficult at times to get below this surface noise […]

Preoccupying: Silvia Federici

Preoccupying: Silvia Federici

Silvia Federici is a New York-based scholar, teacher, and organiser. She is a professor emerita and teaching fellow at Hofstra University, where she previously worked as a social science professor following many years of teaching in Nigeria. Amongst her many roles, Federici co-founded the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and the […]

Editorial: October 2014

Editorial: October 2014

The evidence of climate change doesn’t only rest in intricate atmospheric models, but in the material world around us: rising temperatures and sea levels, increased ocean acidification, desertification, etc. All impact on the basic necessities of life: land, food, water, shelter. These effects are typically experienced in the poorest regions […]

Preoccupying: Selma James

Preoccupying: Selma James

Selma James is an activist and a prolific writer on anti-racism and women’s rights, founder of the International Wages for Housework campaign, and current coordinator of Global Women’s Strike. The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, co-authored with Mariarosa Dalla Costa, launched the ‘domestic labour’ debate. It […]

Editorial: August 2014

Editorial: August 2014

The story of gentrification is familiar to us all: an area undergoes a long period of disinvestment; social housing is allowed to decay; lines of betting shops and pound stores populate the high street; public spaces fall into disrepair. The local council announces a policy of regeneration, based on a […]

Editorial: March 2014

Editorial: March 2014

What is an ordered mind? As labels of disorder continue to proliferate, and diagnoses remain harmful and hard to shake, the configuration of the boundaries between sanity and insanity is of central importance to any transformational politics. In its fifth edition published last year, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of […]

Preoccupying: Eleanor Saitta

Preoccupying: Eleanor Saitta

Eleanor Saitta makes a living and a vocation of understanding how complex systems operate and redesigning them to work, or at least fail, better.  Her focuses include the seamless integration of technology into the lived experience, the humanity of objects and the built environment, and systemic resilience and conviviality. Eleanor undertakes […]

Editorial: November 2013

Editorial: November 2013

The popular visions of 20th-century Science Fiction appear, in retrospect, often restrained and lacking in the scope and ambition of today’s applied technology and its societal impact. Visionaries on the periphery of the genre provide the most astute analysis, with the tamer shores of the likes of JG Ballard warning […]