Author: Matthew Hyland

2016ArticlesDatacide 16

Notes from Non-Existence – Brexit vs. the Proletariat

Jay Gould may or may not actually have said ‘I can hire half of the working class to kill the other half’, but the proprietors of the UK have tested the theory successfully with their EU referendum. Not that you would know it from reading the Guardian, the Financial Times or even, sad to say, Counterpunch and the rest of the Left-wing blogobubble, where a chorus of Influencers is celebrating the 18th Brumaire of Nigel Farage.

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1998ArticlesDatacide 4

Plague in this Town – The Unfinished History of the Italian Autonomia

This article explores the historical struggles against capitalist control in Italy, focusing on the Autonomia movement’s tactics like self-reduction, political shopping, and illegal occupations. It highlights the state’s repression and manipulation of these social movements and the lingering questions about effective resistance.

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