Tag: Poll Tax Riots
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The Philosophy of Antifa
Great video on anti-fascism. If you’ve ever tutted at antifa violence, if you’ve ever compared fascists with anti-fascists, if you’ve said that you will defend the free speech of fascists or opposed no-platforming of fascists – then you NEED to watch this video by Philosophy Tube – a philosophy masters graduate explaining how things work,…
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Where were you? An imperfect list for misplaced fake nostalgia
Really only posting Imperfect List by Big Hard Excellent Fish here for two reasons 1) it’s ace, and has been played twice on Radio Clash, and still is the best thing both Robin Guthrie and Pete Wylie has done – yes including their ‘day jobs’ and 2) all the lyrics for this track on the…
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All the Rage
A random search of LGBTQ history blogs about Paul Cadmus lead me strangely to this blog post about the AB101 Veto Riots in San Francisco in 1991, and then this documentary about the riot and the Bob Ostertag & Kronos Quartet piece based on it called ‘All the Rage’ – you can download the MP3.…
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Kids are angry…and a dubstep revolution
Just wrote this over at Facebook about the protests today…I went down to Whitehall about 6ish before the Treasury occupation to have a look. Not much was happening, kids were standing around outside the kettle, burning placards and changing NWA Fuck the Police slogans. Sirens have been going off all day, and helicopters – surreal,…