Defending Drag: South London is still Anti-Fascist
Defending Drag: South London is still Anti-Fascist reports on the right-wing anti-drag protests and anti-fascist counter-protests in Honor Oak, South London in 2023.
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Datacide Issues
Interview With Nihil Fist – Full Transcript
Nihil Fist first appeared on the scene with a number of self-released cassette tapes and CDs in the late 1990s where he started defining his own vision of rapid fire beats and relentless noise attacks combining elements of harsh noise and speedcore, but at the same time far apart from these genres. This is the full transcript of our interview with him which first appeared on the Noise & Politics channel.
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Journeys in the Naked City – Interview online now
Controlled Weirdness’s Journeys in the Naked City – Adventures in New York Before the Rain, first published in Datacide Fourteen in 2015, where he describes his experiences in the old New York of the late 1980s and early 90s.
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Controlled Weirdness: You’re too Young to Remember the Eighties on YouTube.
You’re too Young to Remember the Eighties – Dancing in a Different Time is the title of an article CW wrote for Datacide Ten in 2008.
In November 2021 we sat down with hin and talked about the topics covered in the article and more: Underground clubs and warehouse parties in London in the early to mid 1980s, charting a hidden history of going out, DJing, electro, the rise of house music and the acid house phenomenon.
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Revolution and Counterrevolution in Germany 1919
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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Hekate & Praxis present Datacide 18 Release Event in London
Announcement of the release event for Datacide 18 in February 2020 taking place in London. Organised by Praxis & Hekate at the Ridley Road Social Club in E8.
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Ghosts & Handbags – A Short Travel Report from the Japanese Underworld
A new short story by Joke Lanz:
Her toenails perfectly match the colour of her smartphone. She wears a handbag with a huge Gucci print on it. I look around, more office ladies with handbags, more handbags with prints on it.
Secret codes? Secret messages?
Secret coincidences?
Marxism Contra Justice – A Critique of Egalitarian Ideology
Neither Karl Marx nor his immediate successors based their critique of capitalism on an ideal of justice.
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Three Poems by Howard Slater
The peace of the brace
and the crackling litter of silence the craw of a smooth car
disappearing into inhaled shrubbery
These blissful times
workless for a mid-week weekend
dissipating into fought
and spread-eagled over the
solitary joys of non-relation…