History is made at night

The Spice Girls' pop ballad '2 Become 1' was the UK Christmas number one single in 1996. I loved it at the time for its melody, ...

I was pretty excited to hear that Tim Lawrence  and Jeremy Gilbert have started a new podcast, Love is the Message . Tim is the great cultur...

The Ultimate Leisure Workers Club is an interesting project based in Vilnius in Lithuania focused around the radical politics of clubs and ...

'Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not yet queer. We may never touch queerness, but we can f...

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) and Alexander Trocchi (1925-1984) might not seem to have too much in common as writers, but I wonder whether...

So there I was talking to a neighbour and the Situationists came up in the conversation, and he says to me I think I've got some of th...

Santa Maria, Brazil, 2013 'Sixteen people will face criminal charges in connection with a deadly fire at a Brazil nightclub in January...

'Once upon a time New York nightclubs catered to the aristocracy of the fabulous, to those with the looks, the style, or the connection...

In 1944 the Nazi occupation of Paris was in its last deadly phase. The RAF was bombing the city's railway stations and the Resistance wa...

Dancing in Lost River Cave , Bowling Green,Kentucky in the late 1940s 'shared conviviality could be seen as a kind of communistic b...

The threatened closure of HMV (which has gone into administration) saddens me mainly because thousands of staff in its shops in Britain and ...

Alain Badiou's latest book to be translated into English is 'The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings' (published by...

In December 1988, Paul Morley wrote an article for Marxism Today magazine entitled 'Towing the Party Line': 'Parties make me a...

The London Anarchist Bookfair was a couple of weeks ago (October 27th to be precise) and to turn up without some printed matter to dissemi...

Friday night's Praxis Records party on the MS Stubnitz in London docklands was great, may write a bit more about it, but for now here...

The twelfth issue of Datacide, 'the magazine for noise and politics',  is out today, with 68 pages of stuff you won't find in an...

The historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) died yesterday at the age of 95.  There's plenty to criticise in his political judgement  as he...