Written by Harry Harrison, one of DiY’s founding members, Dreaming in Yellow traces their origins back to early formative experiences, describing in detail the seminal clubs, parties, festivals and records that forged the collective. Dreaming in Yellow is an attempt to distil the story of DiY’s tumultuous existence and the remarkably eclectic, outrageous and occasionally deranged story of them doing it themselves.

1994 was a year of fervent resistance against the encroaching Criminal Justice Act in the UK. Amidst the clamour of dissent, three historic demonstrations echoed through the streets of London, challenging the very fabric of authority and transforming the nature of peaceful protest, forever. Through the lens of Matt Smith (Exist To Resist), witness the raw energy and unity of the protests that shook the capital. Each image in this zine is a testament to the power of the people, capturing not just moments frozen in time, but the spirit of a generation refusing to accept oppressive legislation. Pages: 68 Size: A5 (21cm x 14.8cm) Binding: Staple bound Print: Black & white Front cover design: Tom Booth Woodger, Interior design: Jez Tucker

Datacide Nineteen back in stock now.Features include The Electronic Disturbance Zone Pt. 1 by Howard Slater, Vietnam, the Third World and the Self-Deception of the Left - a stiuationist document from Berlin from 1967, Industrial Music for Industrial People - an excerpt from Ian Trowell's book on Throbbing Gristle, Interview with Nihil Fist, Hundsteinweg - a text by Joke Lanz, Distant Sky - a new short story by Dan Hekate, The Séance Continues - new poems by Howard Slater, Book Reviews, Record Reviews DJ Charts and more! Check out the table of content HERE. (will open different window)

Donovan Pedelty: The Rape of Socialism - How Labour Lost the Millennium

Although the Vietnam War is still well known, few people are aware of the decades of struggles against the French colonial regime that preceded it, many of which had no connection with the Stalinists (Ho Chi Minh's Communist Party). The Stalinists were ultimately victorious, but only because they systematically destroyed all the other oppositional currents.This book is the story of those other movements and revolts, caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors. Author Ngo Van's In the Crossfire is one of those rare books like Voline's The Unknown Revolution or Orwell's Homage to Catalonia that almost singlehandedly unveils moments of hidden history - sublime moments when people break through the bounds of the "possible" and strive to create a life worthy of their deepest dreams and aspirations. In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary is an English translation of Ngo Van's fascinating and gripping autobiography, originally published in two volumes in France in 2000 and 2005. Co-edited by Van's close friend and collaborator, Hélène Fleury, and acclaimed situationist author and translator Ken Knabb, the book includes seventy color and black and white illustrations, reproducing many of Van's paintings as well as numerous documentary photographs. In the Crossfire belongs on the shelf of every serious scholar of Vietnamese history, and is sure to be a compelling read for anyone interested in the revolutionary history of the twentieth century and beyond.Ngo Van was born in a peasant village in Vietnam in 1912. As a young man he moved to Saigon and became involved in underground struggles against the French colonial regime. In the aftermath of World War II, as most of his comrades were being murdered by Ho Chi Minh's Communist Party, Van escaped to France, where he became a factory worker, a painter, and a historical scholar. Following his retirement in 1978, he devoted the remainder of his life to researching and writing a series of books on the history of modern Vietnam. He died in 2005 at the age of 92. Edited by Ken Knabb and Helene Fleury, published by AK Press, 2010. Product Code: 9781849350136

One of THE central books of Western Marxism!

Essential text by Pannekoek, a classic critique of Lenin, written in 1938.

What is the revolutionary potential of the cultural upheaval of the sixties and seventies? Irwin Silber, radical arts editor of The Guardian (the NY radical weekly, not the British daily paper), offers a crititcal analysis of "Woodstock Nation" from a long range, economic and class perspective. Original pamphlet from 1971!

Nouvelle publication (juillet 2016) Dans cette bande dessinée, Amalia Alvarez donne la parole à 5 femmes « sans papiers » en Suède Amalia Alvarez, dessinatrice chilienne, a réuni ici cinq histoires de femmes ayant demandé l’asile politique en Suède. En annexe, trois interviews de l’auteure éclairent son parcours artistique et militant ainsi que ses conceptions anarchistes et féministes. 180 pages, 10 euros.

Finally in English, released by Chili Con Carne in Portugal! 1818 First edition of Mary Shelley’s classic: Frankenstein 2018 Frankenstein gone mad: the many horrifying uses of technology, such as Web 2.0 that encourages you to give your time and personal information up to faceless IT companies or worse…This book is a mashup of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, videogames and Internet culture, of chiptune music, galvinism, taffelmuzik, real life accounts of ’90s gabber rave parties in Italy and a celebration of Bologna’s finest weirdo label SONIC BELLIGERANZA, whose 17 years of existence (2000-2017) this volume celebrates with 17 texts. All written by Riccardo Balli who, having whistled countless 8-bit versions of famous pop songs and delighted his ears with chip-tune covers of black metal songs and classical music, now extends micro-music aesthetics to literature with this remix of Mary Shelley’s classic. Through some sort of low-resolution séance, the author evokes the spirit of corpse reviver Giovanni Aldini (1762-1834), credited with having inspired The Modern Prometheus. Aldini tells a compressed version of the original Frankenstein story, exposing its language to retro-gaming jargon and simplifying the plot as if it were an arcade game. The aforementioned 18th-century electrifier was the nephew of eminent scientist Luigi Galvani, who lived in MIDIevil Bologna just like the author of this new classic. Send him an impulse from your Game-Boy!BLEEEEEEEEEEEP!

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Fascism is not a thing of the past. In this era of crisis and austerity, it is growing even stronger. The question is: How do we stop it? According to M. Testa, the fight against it must be aggressive and unrelenting. Using a mixture of orthodox history, eyewitness accounts, and unflinching analysis, he makes the case for a resolutely militant anti-fascism, one that gives no quarter and tolerates no excuses. Unlike other partisan accounts of contemporary battles against fascism and ultra-nationalism, Militant Anti-Fascism takes us from proto-fascists in nineteenth-century Austria to modern-day street-fights in London, providing a broad context for its arguments and looking at numerous countries over a longer period of time. The result is both a serious historical study and a story of victory and struggle, past and present, designed to inspire and energise militants. Lay aside, as Testa does, your faith in liberal, legislative, and state-approved approaches to today’s fascist threat. Start by reading this provocative and unapologetic overview of militant anti-fascism and the strategies that have successfully confronted the far right when it has reappeared in its many guises. Malatesta, undercover anti-fascist blogger, has analyzed the changing fortunes of the British far right since 2009. He has written for the anarchist magazine Freedom and is a member of the Anti-Fascist Network. 

A profound critic of electoral party politics and trade union hierarchy, Joseph Edwards was among the most proletarian theorists of his generation. His pamphlets, written in the 1970s and ’80s, survey attempts to organize workers in banana and sugar cane fields, bauxite mines, clerical offices, and industrial factories. His writings are animated by a Rastafarian-influenced philosophy of history and direct democratic politics that emphasize the role of workers’ and village councils in Caribbean class struggle. The first published collection of writings by Joseph Edwards, Workers Self-Management in the Caribbean transforms how we understand class struggle during Caribbean New Left generation. 

Original edition from 1990. NEW A selection of original documents from the period - from first hand accounts of the revolution: the collectives in town, country, industry, public services and agriculture; reports on meetings and demonstrations, to reports verbatim of speeches made by the CNT 'luminaries' justifying their compromises in accepting government posts.

The Chinese Revolution changed the face of the twentieth century, and the politics that issued from it—often referred to as “Maoism”—resonated with colonized and oppressed people from the 1970s down to the anticapitalist movements of today. But how did these politics first emerge? And what do they offer activists today, who seek to transform capitalist society at its very foundations? Maoism and the Chinese Revolution offers the novice reader a sweeping overview of five decades of Maoist revolutionary history. It covers the early years of the Chinese Communist Party, through decades of guerrilla warfare and rapid industrialization, to the massive upheavals of the Cultural Revolution. It traces the development of Mao Zedong’s military and political strategy, philosophy, and statecraft amid the growing contradictions of the Chinese revolutionary project. All the while, it maintains a perspective sympathetic to the everyday workers and peasants who lived under the party regime, and who in some moments stood poised to make the revolution anew. From the ongoing “people’s wars” in the Global South, to the radical lineages of many black, Latino, and Asian revolutionaries in the Global North, Maoist politics continue to resonate today. As a new generation of activists take to the streets, this book offers a critical review of our past in order to better transform the future. Praise: “In Maoism and the Chinese Revolution, Elliott Liu provides a dual service: first, he offers a critical history of Maoism that is both comprehensive and concise; second, he teases out the main lessons of that history and poses the question of how and what we are to learn from it. It is an auspicious beginning to a badly needed debate.”—André Moncourt, coauthor of The Red Army Faction: A Documentary History “How did a great revolution, carried out under the red flag and led by people who claimed, and believed themselves, to be communists, give rise to a monster slave state that may prolong the life of the capitalist system globally? By presenting information about events in China and engaging seriously with Mao Zedong as philosopher and strategist, Elliott Liu shows that the outcome did not result from the triumph of Mao’s ‘capitalist road’ opponents within the bureaucracy but was inherent in a project that sought to transform China into a capitalist society without relying on the traditional bourgeoisie. Liu has contributed to the discussion of what, if anything, in the Maoist tradition can be useful to those seeking to build a new society.”—Noel Ignatiev, author of How the Irish Became White About the Author: Elliott Liu is a political organizer in New York City. He works with the group Take Back The Bronx, and the Bronx Social Center. Product Details: Author: Elliott Liu Publisher: PM Press/Revolutionary Pocketbooks ISBN: 978-1-62963-137-0Published: 06/01/2016Format: PaperbackSize: 8x5Page count: 160Subjects: Political Theory/History-China

The Situationist Movement in Scandinavia and Elsewhere. This volume is the first English-language presentation of the Scandinavian Situationists and their role in the Situationist movement. The Situationist movement was an international movement of artists, writers and thinkers that in the 1950s and 1960s tried to revolutionize the world through rejecting bourgeois art and critiquing the post-World War Two capitalist consumer society. The book contains articles, conversations and statements by former members of the Situationists’ organisations as well as contemporary artists, activists, scholars and writers. While previous publications about the Situationist movement almost exclusively have focused on the contribution of the French section and in particular on the role of the Guy Debord this book aims to shed light on the activities of the Situationists active in places like Denmark, Sweden and Holland. The themes and stories chronicled include: The anarchist undertakings of the Drakabygget movement led by the rebel artists Jørgen Nash, Hardy Strid and Jens Jørgen Thorsen, the exhibition by the Situationist International “Destruction of RSG-6” in 1963 in Odense organised by the painter J.V. Martin in collaboration with Guy Debord, the journal The Situationist Times edited by Jacqueline de Jong, Asger Jorn’s political critique of natural science and the films of the Drakabygget movement. Contributors: Peter Laugesen, Carl Nørrested, Fabian Tompsett, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Jacqueline de Jong, Gordon Fazakerley, Hardy Strid, Karen Kurczynski, Stewart Home, Jakob Jakobsen. The book was published in association with Autonomedia, New York.

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Anti-Wall – Contribution to a more or less caput comprehension of SurrealismMystić Constructions & The Boring One, Surrealist Publications, Belgrade, 1932Poetic translation and transduction: Howard Slater, London/Novi Sad, 2017 Anti-Wall has come together as one of many steps in kuda.org and GKP collaboration with Howard Slater over recent years. This latest co-operation saw us coming together around a mutual interest in the manifestations of the Surrealist movement both locally and world-wide. Anti-Wall, then, operates as a conjunction point (‘communicating vessel’) between the Belgrade Surrealist Group and those in the Antilles that came together around the journals Legitimate Defence and Tropiques. It also became a means of investigating political, affective and art organisations, then, here and now:Infra- and OurOrganization, politics as thought, distance from the State and political parties are just some of common themes embedded into the poetic and experimental transduction of Anti-Wall, originally published by Surrealist Publications, Belgrade in 1932 (by Marko Ristić & Vane Bor). This book, we hope, will help us get over our own walls.

Contents: NEWS & UPDATES The Reverend: Education in England - An Update Marc Hekate: Keith Robinson Desert Storm Obituary Matthew Hyland: Notes from Non-Existence - Brexit vs. The Proletariat FEATURES Alexia Elliott: Poisoned Fruit in the Walled GardenThe Alt RIght: A Growing Problem, But Not a New One MH: Armed Competitiveness - The Working Class Gets Called Up to Fight Itself - Notes on a Recruitment Crisis Howard Slater: ‘Comrade Doctor’ On David Cooper and ‘Anti-Psychiatry’ David Cooper: On Mystification (1978) Strelnikov: Siege MentalityMason, Manson, Moynihan - On the fringes of American Nazism BOOK REVIEWS Neil Transpontine: Angry White People: Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right by Hsiao-Hung Pai  Howard Slater: Demented Idioms - Schizo Culture, Event & Book Matthew Hyland: Eat Like an Idealist! The Assassin - An Association of Musical Marxists Reader Christoph Fringeli: Undeclared Wars with IsraelJeffrey Herf on East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1989 and their role in the Middle East Christoph Fringeli: Far-Left Press Coverage of the 2016 Anti-Semitism Row in the Labour Party and other Leftist Groups COMIX Simon Lejeune: A Breakcore Saga Sansculotte: Overdosed TEXTS DJ Balli: An Addition to the Guinness World Records Mme Tlank, image: Clinical Wasteman: But What of the Ghost? RECORD REVIEWS by Prole Sector, Zombieflesheater, Low Entropy, Controlled Weirdness, Saxenhammer + DJ Charts + Activities Since the Last Issue VISUALS Darkam, dybbuk,Guinea Pigs, Matthieu Bourel, Nevre,Oppositaer 

Guy Debord (1931-1994) was the leading light in the Situationist International. He and the group were the first to criticize and comment on the role of the consumer in Western society. If Dada was an artistic movement that somehow pushed its artistic values into the political arena, then the Situationists were political and urban theorists who transformed politics into an art form. Debord’s masterpiece "Society of the Spectacle" is a stunning and witty critique on contemporary society where the workweek and consumerism alienate the individual. "Considerations on the Assassination of Gerard Lebovici" is a book-length rant and a confrontational stance against the French media with regards to the murder of his good friend and financial supporter Gerard Lebovici. In 1984 Lebovici was called away from an appointment and three days later the police found his body behind the steering wheel of his Renault with four bullet wounds to the back of his head, in a vacant parking lot in Paris. Lebovici was an inventive businessman, movie producer, publisher, and a major financial supporter of Situationist activity -including ownership of a movie theater that screened the films of Debord and other Situationists. It's suspected that gangsters killed Lebovici, although to this day the murderer(s) have never been found. That didn't stop certain groups in the media connecting Lebovici's death with the Situationists. In this passionate rebuttal, Debord lashes out with great humor and intensity against the media and defends his good friend Gerard Lebovici. This book should not be seen as an account of an isolated, almost forgotten murder case, but as a general call-to-arms with respect to how the media controls and rewrites its ‘facts’.

The English Section of the Situationist International: The Revolution of Modern Art and the Modern Art of Revolution