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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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 Flare in the Void - Notes on the G8 Summit in Germany
“If we’re not causing trouble, we’re not doing it right. This is everything we are. This is all we have. And I’m proud to be a part of it - the travelling circus, the whispering conspiracies, the deafening global roar, all the […]

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The Voyage of The Black Frog, being some brief tales of the Camberwell Squatted Centre.

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Jonny and Jim are stalwarts of the British punk scene: the former heading up the Filaments and Suicide Bid, and the latter as the protagonist of the Freak Union. Since the untimely demise of Freaks Union and The Filaments Jonny has continued playing his own brand of soulful protest music on his acoustic, and Jimbo […]

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Siue is the author of the awesome vegan desert cook books “Lickin’ The Beaters” and the forthcoming “Vegan Chocolate and Candy”, as well as being the only person I’ve ever met who can make a  chocolate cake using potatoes! Check out the website dairyfreedesserts.com for more information -including free recipes.
Last Hours: Why publish vegan cook books as opposed to doing a […]

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The end of Punk Planet, and a number of other large American titles, is a tragedy, but perhaps it is also an opportunity for new ideas, and new zines to spread.
At some point in June I was rolling around the internet when I thought I’d head to Punk Planet’s site. I hadn’t seen the new […]

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I recently got myself a digital camera in the sales but it didn’t come with any proper camera bag to protect it when in transit, so I decided to make a little pouch for it to protect it from scratches and the like.

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In the UK, education is compulsory, but schooling is not – which means leaving school and sorting out your own education at home or elsewhere is legitimate and legal. I’ve been working as a facilitator for the Creative Kids Club, a club for home educating kids aged 6-11 that’s self organised by parents. Not having […]

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Social Change and Lifestyle Change – The Camp for Climate Action 2007
We hope the Camp will be many things for many people. An opportunity to explore what the problems are, and the changes and challenges we face; to show us examples of how some people are already answering those challenges; to gain the skills we […]

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