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Revolutions in Reverse A new book from David Gra eber published by Minor Compositions: Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence,...

The Luddites - without condescension For anyone who (like me) was unaware of the conference on the Luddites that took place at Birkbeck Coll...

Unwelcome Guests Unwelcome Guests: 2 hours/ week of intelligent talk radio contains a fantastic themed archive of interviews, talks, audio...

Weaponizing Anthropology A new book by David Price, Weaponizing Anthropology "documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic...

Crack Capitalism John Holloway, author of Change the World Without Taking Power, is giving a series of four Leverhulme Lectures, the first ...

Poetry Classics and Class An online talk with readings by poet Tony Harrison, on the theme of 'Poetry Classics and Class', recorded ...

Libraries at Risk A podcast of of a seminar by David McKitterick, Librarian at Trinity College, Cambridge given at the Institute of Historic...

Lessons from Howard Zinn Anthony Arnove, writes about Howard Zinn, activist and author of The Peoples' History of the United States for ...

Anarchist Film Archive : the first online archive and database of anarchist and libertarian cinema, film and video Christie Books has just a...

Photography and Memory Near the top of my ever-growing "to read" list is Andrea Noble's Photography and Memory in Mexico: Icon...

Mark Twain - autobiography storms the US best-sellers charts One hundred years after his death, the first volume of Mark Twain's autobi...

The Re-enchantment of Place Ken Worpole (author of the ground-breaking book Dockers and Detectives ) provides a short over-view of a new boo...

THE HIVE OF LIBERTY Pamphlets were always the lifeblood of radical movements, so its good to see The Hive of Liberty back in print: THE HIV...

Libraries in a Digital Age Libraries in a Digital Age is a one-day conference organised by the Association of Independent Libraries which w...

Cities Under Siege: the New Urban Militarism Stephen Graham's new book Cities Under Siege provides a p owerful exposé of how contempora...

Housing the Urban Poor On the New Internationalist website, Jeremy Seabrook describes a scheme in Bangladesh which has helped garment-worke...

Banned Books on tour The London Libraries' "reader promotion Banned Books will go live in 28 Library Services across the country, ...

Music is a Crime Demetra Kotouza explores the origins and development of Rebetiko for Mute Magazine : " a kind of Greek, urban, subcu...

Google's All-Seeing Eye William Gibson: " In Google, we are at once the surveilled and the individual retinal cells of the surveill...

Media Commons At last an alternative to the hated system of peer-review for academic journals is being developed in an experiment inititiate...

What was that Programme? BBC researchers have started work on a project to analyse thousands of archive copies of the Radio Times as part of...

The Rat Pack A slide show of 25 "never-seen" photos of Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior, Frank Sinatra and others - courtesy of Lif...

J ohann Hari reviews Chomsky: Hopes and Prospects "This is a book woven through with hope and awe at all the people who slip beyond imp...

The works of Gerard Winstanley Michael Braddick reviews the new two volume publication of the works of the Gerard Winstanley edited by Thoma...

Jose Saramago dies Nobel prize-winning Portugese novelist Jose Saramago has died at the age of 87. Always on the side of the poor and the o...

Policing the Public Gaze A report on the "growing restriction on citizen photography" from the Manifesto Club - for Freedom in Eve...

Crowd Science and the Knowledge Commons In a recent article published in the Times Literary Supplement, "What are Universities For?...

Libraries As local government works out how to deal with planned (and still to be announced) cuts in expenditure, there are already indicati...

Snap? In the New York Times , Pat Ryan draws some interesting comparisons between Lisabeth Salander, the anti-heroine of The Girl with the ...

Love Among the Butterflies Peter Marren, author of the forthcoming Bugs Britannica looks at the future for British butterflies and the grow...

Radio Waves I always have mixed feelings about radio programmes, and I certainly never thought I would be writing a post about Laurence Lle...