Awww, Depp.comms

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/339678/20120510/italy-depp-johnny-communist-manifesto-newspaper.htm   Its a long way from the filthy undercover school cop he played in 21 Jump St.

the soccer-community-fandom thing is still a mystery to me after 18 years. Unless its to distract us from the racism-Terry-Suarez row.

…ment

..ment Issue 01: Welfare Statement, O(nline)UT Now! Friends and collaborators from …ment, new online journal on contemporary art, culture and politics, have released their first issue ‘Welfare Statement’. This first issue explores recent debates on the crisis of the welfare state and related issues. Contributors include Franco Bifo Berardi, Markus Miessen, Margit Mayer, DOXA, Patrick Coyle, The [...]

Sarawak Sights Rights and Might

Rio Tinto is raising money to buy Alcan (no debt crisis for the fat cats then), and there are rumblings about a plan to build a smelter in Sarawak, in conjunction with the chief minister of that jungle paradise (oops, I meant logging and mineral-extraction opportunity). I quote from the Herald Tribune of 7 August [...]

New Left Curve Published.

The new Left Curve is out, with Publicity Section, lots of good stuff, including a piece by Roh Wright. More details when I am back at my desk. ****** If you live in the Bay Area [USA], please join us for the New Issue Release Event for Left Curve no. 31: Wednesday, April 18, 7 [...]

Imogen Bunting 2

Imogen Bunting was a very close friend and her death is an injustice I cannot reconcile (there is no god, no reason, no meaning, nothing fair – etc etc). An astonishing (and yet no surprise) number of people came to the commemoration, and folks from Goldsmiths, from peace boats (Hannah), from the TUC, from the [...]

Left Curve

Left Curve is a great journal and useful website, and gets rave reviews from elsewhere… ie from http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/revs/mg012.htm Left Curve: “Plainly the biggest and boldest experiment in LEFT CURVE is a lengthy segment called PUBLICity, which includes thirty-five pages of very short prose pieces on a wide variety of themes reflecting ‘aspects of global public [...]

Bob from Brockley

Bob from Brockley writes: “On the topic of Left Curve, issue 23 carries a poem by the great poet Ken Smith, who has sadly since left this earth. I also recommend this interview with Agnes Heller and this enjoyably ultra-leftist attack by John Hutnyk on the happily now defunct band Kula Shaker .” Thanks Bob.