Acting out capitalism in our own personal lives is an act that has become so synonymous with our everyday ‘tasks’ that it has emerged and developed into “the representation of financial markets as a thing- a natural phenomenon- (and as such) is a factor in undermining resistance to their negative consequences”

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Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore spent 16 years working on their piece of pornography, a three book edition titled Lost Girls. A comic documenting the possible sexual liaisons if Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz, Wendy of Peter Pan, and Alice of the Adventures in Wonderland met in an Austrian hotel on the eve of Franz Ferdinand’s assassination and the outbreak of the First World War. It’s more than just pornography, it’s also intensely political

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One Night Stand in North Dakota are an acoustic two-piece outfit made up of Daniel Ellis and Nathan Griffin from County Durham, and part of a thriving North-East scene, that is eagerly awaiting discovery.

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Fall of Efrafa are an epic melodic crust band from Brighton. The band recently released their second album – ‘Elil’ – and the second part of their trilogy of records, ‘The Warren of Snares’. Their songs took original inspiration from Watership Down, and explore the struggle for self-determination

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I first saw Seth Tobocman’s work at the Babel Comics Festival in Athens, where he had drawn a huge anti-war mural together with some other of the World War Three Illustrated crew. Much of his work is a bit of a legend for us Europeans, not least because his artwork - not least his book ‘War in the Neighbourhood’ - is so hard to find on this side of the Atlantic!

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This is a tale of how our counterculture is rapidly finding its way to the sales counter, and of how our desire to rebel has caught the attention of marketing mavens keen to co-opt our tactics. After exploring some examples of corporate enterprises striving to offer dissenters ‘new clothes,’

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Peter Gelderloos is best known for his work deconstructing the universal acceptance that non-violence has enjoyed among social activists in the US. This interview and recording is of his talk on non-violence and subsequent conversation discussing his recent “ridiculous” arrest in Spain and thoughts on the anarchist movement

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The world is ending and we have to do something. Quite apart from the same appalling reality we’ve grown to expect in these past centuries we are told, we face a disaster of colossal proportions, a species-emergency, a modern apocalypse.

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A is for Apples, Alchemy and Action: three elements that, when combined can result in a scrumptacular riot of epic proportions! Here’s how I brought these elements together and discovered the fulcrum to open up a whole world of fermentation that I had previously only dreamed of…

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Preserving is not just for old people but is punk fucken rock because it’s all about the DIY. Yes, making jam or growing your own tomatoes then making them into chutney is a completely amazing and revelatory experience!

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