It’s ‘business as usual’ as glass prisons continue to be constructed in London, encasing the ruins of the 1980s in an attempt to put a gloss on the failings of the system.  After all, they say, ‘Economic growth is key’. The rest of us have a better handle on reality, […]

The twenty-second edition of the OT comes out this Monday 29 July. This issue focuses on the importance of the city as a site of anti-capitalist resistance. OT22 features a number of articles, graphics and a front cover by Christos Kourtoglou exploring the role of the urban in political, economic […]

In July of last year, a new hashtag began multiplying across Twitter. A few months passed by, bringing with it the beginnings of a new ”mental environment”. Saturday 17 September 2011 marked the physical birth of Occupy Wall Street as people gathered in Manhattan’s financial district of New York City […]

On 21 August 2008 local musician Sean Nicholas Rigg was killed by police at Brixton Police Station. On the 4th anniversary of his death, over 200 people attended the Sean Rigg Public Memorial held at Lambeth Town Hall organised by the Sean Rigg Justice and Change Campaign and in association with Black Mental […]

What was born in a tent, died in a tent. Worn like the skin of one of Buffalo Bill’s victims in exactly the kind of enclosed corporate space it was built to dismantle, Occupy London’s Tent City University (TCU) was recently taken to a branded woodland glade in Suffolk where it was […]

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 […]

We shouldn’t be surprised by the tactics a desperate political class use to retain control, courtesy of advances in technology and the creation of discursive threats (traitors, communists, drug cartels, terrorists, foreigners, workshy). Tantalising insights have always surfaced intermittently around surveillance in the US and the UK. Yet people were shocked as […]