Book Review: Prison Notebooks: Volume II, Antonio Gramsci

“The concepts of revolutionary and internationalist, in the modern sense, are correlated to the precise concept of state and class: a poor understanding of the state means a poor consciousness of class (understanding of the state exists not only when one defends it but also when one attacks [...]

HEROIC FIGURE, FROM “HEIMAT”

But where’s the New Jerusalem I remember,
alternatives once sought and then rejected
for another term of college in September?
And where’s the hope, now vaguely recollected,
for something to emerge from history,
a savior, just so long as it wasn’t me?
Where’s the activist who would create
a city that I don’t quite recognize,
but sense beneath the scaffold [...]

As the West pummels and pounds yet another country, this time Libya, purportedly to rescue its people, it is worth revisiting (albeit briefly) the concept of ‘just war’, which has led to concepts such as humanitarian intervention.
The rise of christianity
When the Roman Emperor Constantius died in York on the 25th July 306, his troops declared [...]

Book Review: Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now - Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything, by David Sirota (New York, Ballantine Books $25)

We had a unusually cold spell in the west of Ireland in January 1984 with snow remaining on the ground for a week or [...]

The land is my backbone. I only stand straight, happy, proud and not ashamed about my colour because I still have land. The land is the art. I can paint, dance, create and sing as my ancestors did before me. My people recorded these things about our land this way, so that I and all [...]

I was reading a fascinating article in the Canadian Journal for Traditional Music recently. The article was about AL Lloyd, the great English collector of folksong. Lloyd had a remarkable life - orphaned at 15, sent to Australia by his relatives to work as a labourer on the sheep ranches, educated himself through distance learning, [...]

This is the second part of a two-part article called Life Imitates Art. The first part can be found here. For more information on the devastating legacy of Agent Orange in Viêt Nam, visit www.lenaldis.co.uk
The metamorphic transformations inflicted on their human victims by Ovid’s capricious gods have serious or even fatal consequences. When Jove’s wife [...]

With the release of the Afghan and Iraq War Diaries earlier this year and the current release of 250,000 confidential US Embassy cables, who at the end of 2010 does not know the name of Julian Assange and the associated website WikiLeaks? Officially launched in 2007, WikiLeaks state that its aim is to ‘bring important [...]

Some of My Best Friends are Male Prostitutes
The ancient Chinese use to have an ancient Chinese blessing, which was go like this: May you be in the Interesting Times. The Interesting Times was the first ever invented daily newspaper, based in Beijing, which then was called Peking, and before that Constantinople. It was consider to [...]

This article was first published in The Irish Anarchist Review
The purpose of this text is to try and tell the story of our current economic situation, how we got here, and what we can expect from the near future, so as to better understand the tasks facing us.
This is neither an academic text on history, [...]