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The OT in 2014: Our 10 Most Read Online Articles

The OT in 2014: Our 10 Most Read Online Articles

Three issues of the OT were produced in 2014: The Politics of Madness (#24), Art & Gentrification (#25) and Apocalypse Νow? (#26). The publication is produced in common by the OT collective, and relies on the voluntary efforts of its contributors, as well as everyone who reads, shares, distributes, prints […]

Who’s Afraid of Ruins?

Who’s Afraid of Ruins?

Capitalism is locking-in climate change for centuries, but in the process, making radical social change more realistic than tinkering around the edges. I : Ruins There is an oft-quoted passage from the Spanish anarchist militant Buenaventura Durruti. Many readers will know it by heart. It reads: “It is we who […]

Woodcock & Hairdaisy: Problems with Pete

Woodcock & Hairdaisy: Problems with Pete

Download Full Resolution Version | PDF | JPEG By Djordje Balmazovic | www.skart.rs   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Group Therapy

Group Therapy

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, ‘Wonko the Sane’, a marine biologist from California, finds himself confronted with a pack of toothpicks with printed instructions on them. Wonko is moved to redraw the boundary of the asylum to encompass the whole world – except his home, which he turns […]

Occupying the Digital Mainstream

Occupying the Digital Mainstream

“Don’t they get it? Don’t they understand that Facebook and Twitter are part of the government surveillance machine?” Comments like this are a vignette of the evolution within online activism in recent years. They are often heard from the mouths of veterans of the anti-globalisation movement in reference to the […]

Why Campaign for LGBTQ Divorce?

Why Campaign for LGBTQ Divorce?

Those of us in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and queer (LGBTQ) communities will soon find ourselves bombarded with Tory appeasement as the first same-sex marriages are conducted in England. Marriage can be beautiful, meaningful, and vital for enacting immigration rights, but what does marriage mean in terms of state […]

Meeting the Needs of the Power Structure

Meeting the Needs of the Power Structure

In the history of authoritarian governance, there have always been ruling power structures such as monarchies, dictatorships and corporatocracies (the combination of giant corporations, the wealthy and their political representatives). All these power structures have constructed a particular idea of “the professional” to act on their behalf. Power structures have […]

Embros Theatre

Embros Theatre

It was November 2011 when the lights were turned on again at the Embros Theatre, a historical building in the Psirri district of Athens that remained abandoned for 5 years as the Ministry of Culture let it fall into disrepair. In an attempt to bring it back to life, a […]

Good For Nothing

Good For Nothing

I’ve suffered from depression intermittently since I was a teenager. Some of these episodes have been highly debilitating – resulting in self-harm, withdrawal (where I would spend months on end in my own room, only venturing out to sign-on or to buy the minimal amounts of food I was consuming), […]

Doing Mental Health Activism

Doing Mental Health Activism

RAD BRAINS is an anti-capitalist mental health collective based in Oakland, California, United States. Our project is to use mental health as a lens for refining political analysis and bettering political practice. When we came together in the fall of 2012 as part of the Bread and Roses Mutual Aid […]