So there was an anarchist film festival here over this weekend. Fourth World War was tense footage of protests and civil actions all over the world... probably the most impactful was footage of hundreds of unarmed zapatista peasants in Mexico invading a military barracks overlooking their hills, peacefully chanting for the soldiers to leave in the ( Read more... )

For the first few days, or maybe hours of school ( Read more... )

He's bent over his guitar, his face so at one with the body that the curved ridge above the soundhole digs into his cheek. His eyes look closed from here, but maybe they hover open a little just above the neck, his world becoming one of cabled metal strings and dancing unearthly fingers. And music, of course, which is where he truly is - he's been ( Read more... )

So a new year in university is started, and there is a whole new group of girls that I irrationally find attractive without having even talked to them yet. Cool. But the interesting thing is, that I've found that imagining all of them in bed with me at the same time is totally unarousing... this shows that what I find attractive is not (mainly) ( Read more... )

Ok guys, does this article seem OK to you? I'm sending it to appear in a new little political magaziny/paper thing in sheffield, (which i'm assuming with 99% likelihood of being right is very left-wing) so it doesnt have to be professional quality, but still... it is near the word limit also.

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Okok, so - all broad social inequalities, i.e. the relative poverty and feeling of resentment present in black people in the US (assumptions evidenced by what just happened in New Orleans), are caused by the social situations that the individuals find themselves in. Thus, unfair social situations that must be changed, and at best suggest an ' ( Read more... )

Did you guys know that Lenin believed in the 'withering away' of the state; the abolition of the state? This is pretty damn significant... the popular conception of communist russia is that of a totalitarian system - rightly so, of course - but a totalitarian system which was doomed to be that way from the start, was always going to be that way, ( Read more... )

I have a dozen sadnesses and concerns about what is going on in new orleans... intellectual interest has faded and is being replaced by stronger emotions. I'd like to paste this post on a forum by a former resident of New Orleans, which echoes my feelings, especially on the history and culture, and also on the political questions ( Read more... )

Popular culture is awash right now with the phrase of wisdom, 'follow your heart' - visions and ideas that have helped it along are contained in lots of books, like 'the alchemist' and Carlos Castaneda's books, and the new age movement that followed them. Of course, I think of the appearance of these kind of concepts as not having any single cause ( Read more... )

I could have been a sailor, could have been a cook ( Read more... )