Join us to discuss the ideas of Karl Marx on Friday 19 March 2010 at The Lucas Arms pub, Grays Inn Road, London.
Nearest tube: Kings Cross. Starts at 7.30 with discussion after introduction.  Please bring whatever you can afford to contribute towards the cost of hiring the room.

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Around 1971 through my contacts with Sinclair Beiles (a South African anti-apartheid poet)* I met Robert Calvert. We used to meet regularly, he used to come round to my pad (as they used to call a flat or room ) in those days. Bob was a cool  character; he was into poetry, William Blake, he […]

On the 23rd floor you could hear the wind vibrating the window frames.
There were restraining bars on my windows to stop people falling out.
The trees looked so miserable from the 23rd floor.
Every floor was once riddled with asbestos until decades later it was abated.
On the 23rd floor my shared flat was cosy, bright and well […]

Men hairdressers have been forbidden by the Hamas leadership from meddling with women’s hair. It is part of the enforcement of the Shariah law. Any transgression will be severely punished. Separation is always a cornerstone of State power. The people of Gaza are enslaved by that awful ideology. At least in the region under the […]

While we were working at Friends of the Earth my brother Jonathan tipped me off about an anarchist ex-architect and teacher who had just visited the Covent Garden office. It was Colin Ward, co-editor of the new “Bulletin of Environmental Education” (BEE) with Tony Fyson, a former town-planner.
My first meeting with him was at the […]

Not one commentator mentioned George Orwell when they spoke of the death of Michael Foot. Amnesia seems to be rampant in all political circles. The obituary of M. Foot in the Guardian of the 4th of March stated that: ” Foot returned to Tribune as editor (1948-52, and again 1955-60)”. George Orwell relates how he […]

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Some pinko-leftists assume that the Left will also reap from the discord caused by the terminal decline of capitalism, leaving the ‘centre unable to hold.’  In fact, the far-right have stolen the Left’s only ace-card in the pack: the critique from the standpoint of labour.  During the 20th Century, the expansion of capital worldwide was […]

This is the prize list for the Donkey of the month Award:
1st Prize for Confusion: Herr Negator from Hamburg (the books he edited about the Situationist International did not bring anything new to the table) his recent posts on our website muddy the waters even more, in fact Herr Negator (of what we would like […]