A Splutter of Musketry – Britain and America’s Destruction of Iranian Democracy (Part One)
How did the CIA and MI6 orchestrate a coup d'etat in Iran in 1953? In this new, two-part essay, No Less Than Mystic author John Medhurst looks at how Britain and the USA destroyed democracy in Iran to protect their own economic
Mark Fisher on The Fall
To commemorate the passing of Mark E Smith, below is Mark Fisher's analysis of The Fall's Grotesque (After the Gramme), from The Weird and the Eerie (2016). “Body a tentacle mess”: The Grotesque and The Weird: The Fall The word grotesque derives from a
Read an extract from A Threat of the First Magnitude
You can now read an extract from Aaron J Leonard and Conor A Gallagher's A Threat of the First Magnitude - FBI Counterintelligence and Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962-1974 on Truthout! In their new book, A Threat of the First
RIP K-PUNK (PART 2)
In November we will be publishing a collection of Mark’s work – K-punk: The Collected Writings of Mark Fisher, edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by Simon Reynolds. This is the second of two blogs, each containing two essays included in the
RIP K-PUNK (PART 1)
11 July 1968 - 13 January 2017 RIP K-PUNK In November we will be publishing a collection of Mark's work - K-punk: The Collected Writings of Mark Fisher, edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by Simon Reynolds. This is the first of two