A Ken Fox: Frigment of a Contribution to the Critique of Poetics
Ken Fox on “poetry” — in response to the Late Lunch With Out To Lunch broadcast versus two footnotes in J.H. Prynne’s Mental Ears & Poetic Work. “It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is...
View ArticleAMM#5: Where Rubbish Meets the Absolute Idea - VIDEO
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View ArticleStatement of SWP Democratic Opposition
Platform of the Democratic Opposition faction of the SWP, created in opposition to the expulsion of four leading SWP members. Four comrades have been expelled for forming a ‘secret faction’ during the...
View ArticleAMM#5: Where Rubbish Meets the Absolute Idea - Political Mix
A 'Political Mix' of AMM5, the fifth public meeting of the Association of Musical Marxists, the organisation founded in December 2010 by Andy Wilson, Ben Watson and Keith Fisher. This 33-minute...
View Article'Paris': Political Engagement and Party Democracy
This document was produced for a recent SWP Pre-Conference Bulletin, being one of the most cogent criticisms there of current SWP theory and practice, it is of course purely coincidental that the...
View ArticleIS Group: Discussion Document of Ex-SWP Comrades (1994)
The following document was written in 1994 after the expulsion of Andy Wilson, and was the lead article in the first publication of the IS Group (formed in response to that expulsion), Democracy and...
View ArticleEsther Leslie: Screen Glow
Esther Leslie’s address to the Fifth Congress of the Association of Musical Marxists (AMM5) 20-xii-2012 … In Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind the phosphorescent floating spores of...
View ArticleKen Fox: Vigorous Circular Motion - One More Time For The World!
Episode of Ken Fox's Naval Aviation In Audio, radio program on CJTR Regina Community Radio. No. 195, aired December 5, 2012. Some folks didn't get a chance to hear the November 21 broadcast of an...
View ArticleIan Land: The SWP vs. Lenin
Bureaucratic Centralism or Democratic Centralism? - The SWP vs. Lenin. This article was written by Ian Land for the IS Group in 1994, and included in the first publication of the group, Democracy and...
View ArticleBen Watson: Where Did the SWP Go Wrong?
A reply to Daphne Lawless of Chaos Marxism. This is a personal response from Ben - among other things, some of us here at AMM HQ disagree with his claim that Cliff bears no responsibility. More on this...
View ArticleTime to Fight: The Crisis in the SWP
Saturn eating his children Details of allegations of rape and sexual harassment against a leading member of the SWP (Martin Smith, aka 'Comrade Delta', until recently the National Secretary of the SWP...
View ArticleJohn Molyneux: Democracy in the International Socialists
Written by John Molyneux for the I.S. Internal Bulletin, 1975. This is posted here just to remind Molyneux and his supporters what the old IS was actually like, and what he argued back then. That full...
View ArticleBen Watson: Anti-Wire
Preview of a polemic against Wire magazine and its punting of 'Avant' musical culture culled from the script of Ben Watson's Late Lunch With Out To Lunch, to be broadcast live from Borough High Street,...
View ArticleComing Soon on Unkant: Ken Fox: Azmud
To be released on Unkant in March Drifting in & out of sense as in an interrupted dream, Azmud is a novel contribution to literary art as political allegory. In each of its five sections - 'expired...
View ArticleMcLuhan: Statement by the AMM
The following statement by the AMM was added as a comment to a post, Marxism and McLuhan, about Marshall McLuhan by 'Roobin' on Lenin's Tomb. This discussion is an important and interesting one, and...
View ArticleThe Wire / Tony Herrington vs. Late Lunch: Background on Ben Watson Losing...
Programme-controller Ed Baxter told me it was a 15-minute tirade by Tony Herrington (publisher and editor-in-chief of The Wire) on the phone which led to the suspension of my Resonance show. Ed...
View ArticleJacob Bard-Rosenberg: Letter to Ed Baxter / ResonanceFM
On hearing the news Resonance FM had decided to suspend Ben Watson's 'Late Lunch With Out to Lunch' show after complaints from Tony Herrington on behalf of The Wire (read this account of the dispute),...
View ArticleDialectics of Liberation: The Dunayevskaya–Marcuse–Fromm Correspondence
Kevin B. Anderson and Russell Rockwell, eds, The Dunayevskaya–Marcuse–Fromm Correspondence, 1954–1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx and Critical Theory, Lexington Books, Lanham MD and Plymouth, 2012, 269...
View ArticleJules Alford: Resignation Letter to Liverpool SWP
In the wake of the SWP 'Special Conference' last week there have been a flurry of resignations from the SWP - including this mass resignation letter - as well as the formation of a new grouping of...
View ArticleJack Wright: A Response from an American Free Improvisor to Ben Watson’s...
A Response from Jack Wright to the dispute between Ben Watson and The Wire. You can find other articles and info about Jack and his music here at his blog, and here at the Spring Garden Music site. For...
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