Red Fist
These are the grey poets Of machine hell. The squalid prophets Of beaten humanity. Reformists who promise To turn the shit of mass production economy Into a bed of roses. Their uniform is the pink...
View ArticleFifty Shades of Capitalism
No copyright intended, scene borrowed on the basis of fair use for educational purposes. Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015) directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Music by Pye Corner Audio. Narration and montage...
View ArticleEaster 2015 and the Son of God Particle
Illustration: Elena Caldera After being used to locate the God Particle The Hadron Collider was given a rest, With two and a half years for refurbishment Before being put back to the test. It’s...
View ArticleWhat is false consciousness?
“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.” — Mao Zedong In an attempt to grasp the inner workings and implications of Lukács’ ‘false consciousness’ we may ask...
View ArticleWhy the Rich Love Burning Man
. [ An update on Fred Turner’s 2009 analysis of the affinity between the owners/managers of Silicon Valley technology firms and an annual fire festival on a dry Pleistocene lakebed in Nevada...
View ArticleCredit Crunch Suicide
I could have been a bankerSitting on a ledgeHigh up on a skyscraperCoz someone clipped my hedgeI could have been in business In the city making bidsTake a shotgun to the wife and dogsAnd...
View ArticleIt’s About Time The Uber-Bourgeois Media Bubble Was Popped
Why, in the UK, is the media, and to a lesser extent, the art establishment, so utterly dominated by the Middle Classes, I wonder? This current state of affairs is not only caused by the evil...
View ArticleMic Check! Bernie Sanders swallows Occupy’s microphone
This article is republished from ‘issue zero’ of the newly launched print edition of The International Times. The rest of the articles will be online on a new IT website soon. A limited number of...
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