Louise Bolotin 1961-2022

From Kate Sharpley Library
April 24, 2024

News has reached us of the death of Louise Bolotin, in October 2022 from bowel cancer. Louise will be remembered by people in many different places for her rebellious spirit, her Jewish atheism and her commitment to fighting sexism. The strength of her character meant that she sometimes clashed with people in the anarchist movement, but that can also be seen as a strength.

Marco Pogo disdains the conventional world

Wisconsin State Journal
April 15, 2024

Marco Pogo, a legend in the Madison music scene, disdains the conventional world

Kunin said he’s known for not talking about his work history. “I never wanted to sell my brains to someone who would use them for profit. I’m very against capitalism. I’m an anarchist. I’m against the government.”

London: Welcome to the New Eroding Empire!

From eroding empire
March 20, 2024

Because the empire is still eroding!

The new website hopes to provide people with an overview of current events in the radical, punk and diy scene in London. Find anarchist social centres, gigs (punk or otherwise), upcoming protests etc. At the end of the day it’s a user-led creation, so please use this website to submit your events, not submit to authority! You can read more about the underlying events platform Radar on the event submission page.

Review: Flower – Heel of the Next / Physical God EP

From DIY Conspiracy
February 5, 2024
Reviewed by Azafell

NYC's Flower return with a new single featuring powerful bass, aggressive crustcore guitar with melancholic tones, precise drumming, and fierce anarcha-feminist vocals railing against corporate and systemic oppression.

Video from book launch in Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh

From Anarchism and Punk

For anyone who missed it, you can check out this video taken at our book launch event on 29th December in Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh. Jim gives an overview of the book and the genesis of the project, and our comrade from the CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective rattles through a political economy of punk, post-Fordism and the death of social media, with Q&A thereafter.

Punk—Dangerous Utopia

From CrimethInc.

Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism

How did punk emerge out of the countercultures of the 1960s that it claimed to reject? Why did it play such a central role in the resurgence of anarchism around the world at the end of the 20th century? How did it prefigure the participatory media of the digital age? And what can its legacy teach us today?

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