A month in Bologna with @sethnotes.bsky.social: archives, Bifo, Sonic Belligeranza records ft AAA, psychographic walking tours with DJ Balli & The Mekons, and the excellent company of @grafton9.net Monday I return to London for my dissertation write up - sad!

DOPE Magazine 30 - Summer 2025 - ‘… Do They Think Guitars and Microphones are Just Fucking Toys?’ * by Seth Dresden Wheeler (@sethnotes.bsky.social) - Article: 👉 dopemag.org/articles-1/-do-they-think-guitars-and-microphones-are-just-fucking-toys- - Support: 👉 dopemag.org/support 👈

FANZINET mappatura della Rete delle Fanzine italiane originate dalla subcultura punk/nuovo rock negli anni 80. www.paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/f... 🖤

Get involved! 👇❤️🖤 maydayrooms.org/anarcho-punk...

… Flogging run-off, stapled zines,
collated on the window sill
Twenty pences in my jeans,
cash goes to the printing bill Collated on the window sill,
written with a young fan’s passion
Cash goes to the printing bill
and booze and fags and anti-fashion … from Lighting Rigged by Janine Booth

I love this photo Lydon and Sidney in Berlin 1977 John stares down the camera -dead cold & dead cool- he’s stood directly in front of a ‘wanted anarchists’ poster -the poster offering a cash reward for information that may lead to the capture of the R.A.F - Sid swigs from a bottle …

Book Talk - Wages of Dreamwork at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social Saturday April 5 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm housmans.com/event/book-t... London event with Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel to the shop to discuss "The Wages of Dreamwork"

On this day in 1871, French troops sided with the people that they were sent to repress against the generals and the oligarchs who sought to dominate them. This set off a revolutionary chain reaction that changed the course of history. Such things do happen. crimethinc.com/arch18

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In good company Boycott Watkins Media A Statement of Solidarity Signed by Authors and Affiliates of Repeater and Zer0 Books 👇 xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/b...

Archivio Autonomia / Radio di Movimento Materiale proveniente da Radio Onda Rossa, Radio Blackout, Radio Alice, Radio Specchio Rosso, Radio Sherwood, Radio Tupac, Radio Faraci, Radio Sud, Radio Alternativa Popolare, Radio Popolare, Radio Città Futura Torino, Canale 96. archive.org/details/auto...

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I’ll be talking at this at MayDay Rooms - Wed 26th - 6.30 pm Hope to see some of you there 👇❤️🖤

The Call to Arms. Answered by thousands during the cultural revolt of 1977

For a decade or two, the music press acted as a popular alternate curriculum, introducing a generation or two to radical politics, wider reading and alternate/submerged histories. If you weren’t of the class who saw higher education as either guaranteed or a natural birth right-it was invaluable.

A great evening out with the MayDay Rooms crew for the launch party of Mick Jone’s pop culture archive - yes that Mick Jones. A good turn out from the west London punky/reggae milieu (and their kids) with excellent sets by Dennis Bovell and Tessa Pollitt. We danced our fucking socks off

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Appel's fellow delegate and hijacker was Berlin's Club #Dada cofounder Franz Jung. The boat was the Senator Schroder, which has it's own wiki page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator... Appel's autobiography gives an account fo the journey: libcom.org/article/auto...

#Bifo e #Gaza. Se non conoscete Bifo, fatevi un regalo. www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/02/19/e...

Traumfabrik Via Clavature 20 archive.org/details/trau... Un viaggio attraverso la Bologna rivoluzionaria degli anni `70

The 1975 track ‘La mela di Odessa (1920)’ by the Italian prog-rock act Area is loosely inspired by Jan Appel’s hijacking of a boat in order to reach Soviet Russia to attend the 3rd World Congress of the Communist International Prog pirate councilism👇 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf1D...

A great interview between Chuang journal and members of Endnotes Journal- unpacking the history of Endnotes and the international exchange it was part of/helped to facilitate Well worth the read 👇 chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...

More archival gold from the MayDay Rooms huge eco-anarchist collection Pictured👇MayDay’s large collection of Fifth Estate Journals - dating from 1977 to 2004 Actualise Industrial Collapse Motherfuckers!

#ZapateraNegra at Raven Row #Zapatistas #BlackPanthers

All Knees and Elbows of Susceptibility and Refusal - reading history from below with Anthony Iles Where: MayDay Rooms When: Feb 26th - 6.30pm Sign up below 👇 events.maydayrooms.org/e/46/archiving…

Cop Killer -1983- Dir. Roberto Faenza A criminally forgotten sleaze ball classic. A serial killer vs tough cop storyline starring Harvey Keitel & .…. Johnny fucking Rotton! Who is … surprisingly good. Has a great score by Morriconi to boot m.youtube.com/watch?v=z1U4...

@jamsqu.bsky.social Tonight’s viewing is sorted! Happy Valentines Day! 😘 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGyl...

Now That’s What I Call Anarcho-Punk! // Anarcho-Punk Classics & Rarities Mix by Chris Low “No pub rock riffs, fifties R’n’B scales or wanky guitar solos. It was angry, brutal, uncompromising and a total aural and ideological attack on the senses.” soundcloud.com/noisey/the-n...

The Loombreaker - a late 90s/early 00s Mancunian based militant eco news bulletin No generals but Ludd! No captain but Swing!

A fine example of American post-situationist engagement within the electoral farce Beats any burn Bernie could produce …

Runs of ‘Live Wild or Die!, Species Traitor, Treeflesh, a few copies of Resistance - the Journal of the N.American E.L.F’ and a large run of Anarchy- A Journal of Desire Armed - all held in MayDay Room’s huge eco-anarchist collection Actualise Industrial Collapse motherfuckers! 💚🖤❤️✊🔥

On this Day - London’s Antiuniversity opens Feb 12th 1968 The proposed faculty included- Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Stokely Carmichel, C.L.R James …

An exhibition of Balestrini’s typographical collages has opened, with works for sale - that carry a 10,000 euro price tag! 🤮 The recuperation of militant ephemera into the gallery system continues apace Fuck the art world- visit a movement archive instead!

bella la mostra di Balestrini www.culturabologna.it/events/nanni... con le sue opere in vendita a +10.000 Euro il collezionismo è una merda. esporre il lavoro dei movimenti nelle gallerie e nei musei è una merda. VISITATE GLI ARCHIVI MILITANTI DI MOVIMENTO

Unpacking the huge bundle of gifts we recieved while visiting our comrades in Bologna - including an excellent account of late 90s/early 00s hacking and media activism - entitled ‘+KAOS’ given to us by our dear friends at @grafton9.net ❤️🖤✊🔥

Bologna archival haul! A near full run of the early 2000s anti-industrial society journal ‘Los Amigos De Ludd’ and a cool anthology of Clodo communiques

Bologna, we are with you tomorrow We have a meeting with uncle Bifo but other than that we are footloose and fancy free Give me or @jamsqu.bsky.social a shout if you fancy a spritz at Ortica

A review copy of Jasper’s new book -coming out soon on @versobooks.bsky.social - arrived in the post today. I’m only 20 pages in and it’s clarifying a lot I had somehow buried during the soc dem confusions of the last decade. Essential essential reading ❤️🖤✊

Notes on the ceasefire: how it came about, what it tells us about the successes and failures of Joe Biden, Hamas, and the Palestinian solidarity movement in the West. And what comes next. zeroline.substack.com/p/notes-on-t...

Defend, Deny, Depose

An exciting new project is tracing the history of Britain’s premier -and long standing- anarchist social centre and anarcho-punk venue - Bradford’s 1 in 12 Club If you’ve memories to share - reach out here 👇❤️🖤 @homeofmetaluk.bsky.social homeofmetal.com/at-the-1in12-v…

I started this DIY World Punk Atlas a while ago & have been happy to see it grow. Please feel free to contribute and share it with other folks who might be interested! Simple instructions for contributors are linked in my first reply below. www.google.com/mymaps/viewe...

Today is Dalston Solidarity Café’s 3rd Anniversary! 🥳 Join Trans Fem Social, Lambeth Mutual Aid, Bristol Sol Café -among others- to a talk about free community space & how we keep them going Halk Evi, 31-33 Dalston Lane E8 3DF 🥘 Free food from 2 - 8pm ⏰ Discussion- 4 - 6pm

Good to discover that initiatives like this are still up and running after all these years- projects like these were once the cornerstone of the radical left - and imo - need to be rolled out nationally once more ❤️🖤🔥 www.claimantsunion.com/next-meeting

30th anniversary of the battle for Claremont Rd 👇🖤❤️🔥 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Getting Close to Nothing - 1994 video zine. Featuring performances by Blood Sausage, Huggy Bear, Cornershop & Mambo Taxi among many others www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlWC...

Big Flame Project Researcher @sethnotes.bsky.social has delved into the library's archives and written a blog post on Mole Express, a radical grassroots publication from 1970s Manchester. wcml.org.uk/blog/well-gr...