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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Frankenstein, or the 8-Bit Prometheus – Micro-literature, hyper-mashup, Sonic Belligeranza Records 17th Anniversary by Riccardo Balli. We document the Reddit controversy between Balli and Reynolds!
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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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In his book “Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump,” Gary Lachman explores the role of occult ideas in contemporary politics, particularly in the USA and Russia during the Trump era. Lachman delves into “New Thought,” Chaos Magic, and traditionalist influences on right-wing movements.
Book review by Neil Transpontine
This is a kindergarten they turn us into children and then tell us we must learn to fend for ourselves they diminish us and accuse us of lacking self-esteem they steal our dignity while offering admonitions of our failure to confront reality.
[Michael Moorcock, Mother London]
Boris Souvarine (1895-1984) was a co-founder of the French Communist Party and activist in the Communist International. He broke from the party in 1924 and became a critical supporter and part of the anti-Stalinist opposition within the international communist movement, observing and analysing the degeneration of the Bolsheviks from a revolutionary force to the political organisation of a new ruling stratum in Soviet Russia. This is his article about 10 years of the revolution for the first time in English.
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Cosey Fanni Tutti interviewed by Jo Burzynska. Originally conducted in 2000, this interview with female pioneer of industrial music and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti finally made it into the pages of Datacide in issue 17, along with a book review of her memoir Art Sex Music.
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Picking up again on Félix Guattari’s notion of ‘post media’, Howard Slater here explores the liberating aspects of the Third Cinema of such directors as Djibril Diop Mambéty and Med Hondo. Drawing on the writings of Teshome Gabriel this text reveals Third Cinema as being an ever-valid challenge to mainstream Western notions of the cinema as a conditioning monoform.
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Specimen July 13th is a short story by Dan Hekate from Datacide 17:
‘Kate Macmillan had been following Specimen July 13th all week. He fascinated and beguiled her in equal measure. It had been months since she had been this intrigued…’
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