Today, the interior minster of Germany banned the far-right Compact Magazine in an unusual step.
Edited by former leftist Jürgen Elsässer and employing a clever multi-media strategy, it had become the most popular of an array of far-right publications seeking an “overthrow of the regime”.
Updated version of the Nomex and Adverse Records discography originally from the Almanac for Noise & Politics Volume Two (2016). It includes Nomex’s releases on his own Adverse label, partially based on the now-defunct Adverse website, the Maschinenbau 7″s, the releases on Praxis and other essential noise and concept-core.
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Record reviews by Christoph Fringeli from Datacide 19 feat. new releases on vinyl by GRMMSK, Gwakaï, The DJ Producer, Scorn, HFK, KK Null/Dot Product, R-Zac, Taciturne, C Mantle as well as compilations from Stirpe999 and Sozialistischer Plattenbau.
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In January 1919 two important figures of the early German communist movement were murdered in Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. This was in the middle of an attempt to turn the revolution that had forced the Kaiser to abdicate in November, 1918 into a fully socialist one. This attempt, often called the Spartacist Uprising, was defeated, as were other attempts in other parts of Germany to set up council republics and workers’ democracy.
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Paris, December 5, 2019: Tense moments on the first day of the nationwide strike against the proposed changes of the pension system in France. We’re waiting on Place de la République for the demo to arrive. Video and photos.
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Christoph Fringeli’s record reviews from Datacide Eighteen feat. releases by No Name, The Mover, FFF, Max Durante, Toysfornoise and more.
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Review of Dale Street: Lions Led by Jackals – Stalinism in the International Brigades, issued by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty in 2016. A scathing critique of the negative Stalinist influence on the Spanish revolution.
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Swedish translation of ‘Hedonism and Revolution’.
Så länge som det funnits en tanke på universell befrielse genom kommunistisk revolution, har detta projekt rymt en spänning mellan två tillvägagångssätt – två motsatta positioner, bland människor som, ytligt betraktat, strävar efter samma slutmål…
Book review of France – What’s new for the Left, an english language anthology of the french journal Ni patrie, ni frontières from 2017 which provides important insights in the history and present of the French radical Left.
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