National Action was a British openly neo-Nazi group founded in 2013. The group cultivated a militant image and notoriously carried a banner with the slogan “Refugees not welcome” and the hashtag #hitlerwasright at public demonstrations. Since December 2016 the group has been proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000. Since the trials of three of the members connections to the Neofolk music scene emerged.
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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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Datacide again took part in the London Radical Bookfair on June 2nd 2018, taking place at Goldsmiths University. We were there with a small stand and presented a selection of magazines, books, records and tapes. And bubbles!
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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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Alexander Reid Ross: Against the Fascist Creep, published by AK Press in 2017, reviewed by Christoph Fringeli. The fascist creep: ‘the porous borders between fascism and the radical right, through which fascism is able to “creep” into mainstream discourse’.
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Bong-Ra’s “Palestina” EP, featuring a protest-themed cover, makes a political statement in support of Palestine, with proceeds going to Gaza’s Al Awda hospital. The release nods to author Norman Finkelstein but sparks debate due to his divisive views and contentious history. The EP’s simplistic representation contrasts with the complex realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Record Reviews by Christoph Fringeli from Datacide 17, published online 2017 feat HFK, Molecule SCAM, Cyclic Backwash, Minus Polaris, Mono-Amine, Alex Buess and Daniel Buess, Sprawl, a Death & Leisure roundup and more
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