Culture, Uncut
Why I love Samba
Posted on October 29, 2011 by Admin | 20 Comments
This is a response by guest writer Nadia Idle to Adam Ramsay’s article Why I hate Samba, published in the first edition of the Occupied Times. Adam Ramsay, you are wrong about samba and this is why: Actually first, before we inspect your analysis, lets clear up one thing. If, when you hear the bass [...]
Why I hate samba
Posted on October 27, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | 24 Comments
A shorter version of this piece first appeared in the Occupied Times of London I have a confession. I don’t like samba. OK, that’s not quite true. I often enjoy it. It’s cheering. But I have a political objection. But that’s probably not where I should start. Perhaps more to the point, I don’t like [...]
Why the Persecution at Dale Farm is all about the Economy
Posted on September 14, 2011 by Peter McColl | 13 Comments
When I was a postgraduate student I tutored on a course about the politics of inequality. We dealt thematically with gender, sexuality, race, class and ethnicity. By the end students were fully convinced of the value of non-discriminatory politics. Until that was we got onto the subject of travelling people. The mention of travellers unleashed [...]
Russell Kane is a sexist bully
Posted on August 29, 2011 by Kate Harris | 18 Comments
Russell Kane, on Thursday night, was featured in a BBC Comedy Festival special from Edinburgh. In his short set, he said that women ‘moan’ about getting unwanted male attention but then ‘put a short skirt and makeup on’, implied that he has considered sleeping with vulnerable women with low self-esteem to make himself feel better, [...]
Finding a sense of place: community, art and the UK riots.
Posted on August 24, 2011 by Alasdair Thompson | 3 Comments
What is it that makes a community? We talk a lot about communities in political discourse but to what do we actually refer when we use the term? After the riots across England recently we heard a lot of commentators from the left and the right talk about how the rioters had turned on their [...]
Forest Cafe Stunned at Order to Leave Premises
Posted on August 17, 2011 by Peter McColl | 5 Comments
The Forest Cafe is an autonomous social space in Edinburgh. It acts as a venue for art installations and exhibitions throughout the year and runs a popular Forest Fringe during the Edinburgh Festival. You can sign the petition to Save the Forest here. The website for the Save The Forest Campaign is here. This is [...]
Alienation: Jimmy Reid
Posted on August 10, 2011 by Admin | 3 Comments
Today, on the first anniversary of his death, we are pleased to re-print the address made by the great Scottish trade unionist and journalist Jimmy Reid on his election as Rector of Glasgow University. Jimmy’s work-in at the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders should serve as an inspiration for the kind of creative industrial action we need [...]
Hey Jude: culture and class from inside a kettle
Posted on July 25, 2011 by Adam Ramsay | 1 Comment
We had been kettled for 8 hours. In December. It was below freezing and the air was cut with the acrid smoke of burnt bus stop. “We need to make a bigger stink than them” the pyrotechnic had said, gesturing at Parliament. “Yeah, but we’re stuck here, we have to breathe.” He wasn’t popular. To [...]
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace – Episode Two
Posted on June 2, 2011 by Alasdair Thompson | 2 Comments
An unrealistic view of nature as a self-regulating system, constantly in balance and which always returns swiftly to equilibrium after any disturbance has distracted us from a real examination of the structures of power in our society. Or so, at least, says Adam Curtis in part two of All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. Tracing [...]
Machines of Loving Grace (and their Masters).
Posted on May 26, 2011 by Alasdair Thompson | 6 Comments
A shorter version of this article was originally published by ORGzine. If there was a fault with the first episode of Adam Curtis’ All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, which aired Monday night, it was his analysis of the eponymous machines. In an hour long programme which was, by turns, brilliant, visionary, terrifying, [...]
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