Rotten by name and by nature.

Johnny Rotten is an arsehole. He betrayed his punk roots long ago and is now nothing more than a sad old man flogging things and selling his soul for kudos from capitalism. He recently said: I showed what I can do with butter, right?  Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I’m very proud of them Country [...]

Buju Banton comes out of the closet

Not really, but who needs to tell the truth when you can make funny videos! Buju Banton is one of the biggest names in dancehall music. He’s been making records for over 20 years, some of his undeniably great music has made him one of the biggest stars in Jamaica, and regarded by many as [...]

I read some Marx and I liked it.

Going GAGA for workers' rights!

Now, America doesn’t do trade unions a whole lot. Despite a militant and often bloody labour tradition stretching back 200 years, trade union membership in the United States is now under 15% of the total workforce, and militancy in the workplace is rare. However, when it does do unions, it manages to get them SO [...]

A powerful new argument against the war. . .

. . .is that these guys’ skills are clearly being wasted in Afghanistan, and they should be back home contributing to their communities.

Apartheid Arizona

The US state of Arizona has just passed some of the strictest anti-immigrant laws in US history, in a move that enshrines racism in law. Throughout the US it’s well known that migration cops use racial profiling to target people who have the most brown skin or look the most like they might have some [...]

Car crash reveals anti-corporate anger in Russia

On February 25th a fatal car accident killed two well known gynecologists in Moscow. The crash was caused when their Citroen was smashed into by an armoured Mercedes that contained Anatoliy Barkov, Vice President of Lukoil, Russia’s largest oil company. Very quickly the police attempted to cover up the accident in order to protect his [...]

The Rubberbandits (They're in the RA)

Every now and then a musician or band comes along which redefines how we enjoy music, how it relates to our lives and how we interpret the world around us and the people who live in it with us. The Rubberbandits are not that band. They are two guys from Limerick who wear plastic bags [...]

RAGE AT NO.1: the greatest victory for the working class ever

You might’ve heard. Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name Of is the Christmas number one. Yes! It’s finally happened: we got a bunch of politckul rap-rockin’ revolutionary Maoists from LA to the top o’ the pop charts. ‘We’ being the disgruntled social-networking masses, fed up of the contrived, tedious pish that is the X Factor and it’s [...]

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