Twenty Years of Attack the System: Was 2020 a Vindication?
It was 20 years ago this month, in January of 2001, that AttacktheSystem.Com first appeared. Previously, I had been involved in radical activities since the late 1980s. For about five years, I was a
Knowledge without Constraints: How Friedrich Hölderlin Overcame the Kantian-Fichtean Stranglehold
FRIEDRICH Hölderlin (1770-1843), who explored the mystical links between philosophy and poetry, was possibly the central figure among the Romantic thinkers. Despite the fact that his brilliant and delicate
Coronalis (poetic remix of E.Pound's Usura, Canto XLV)
With Korona hath no man a health of his owneach sleeve forever furled and yieldingmuzzles cover thy flinching face,with Koronahath no man a mind of his own,painted Iris’ drawn upon window panesRAINBOWS
Aye, know that Fungi ripen not!,they only rot, and slew forth ink,like paper blots; or as Octopus'tied in knots by the Severn heads,of stone begot - wave hardened,yet eroded none, become still weatherworn,
Reaching Across the Aisle (Derrick Jensen and Keith Preston)
"Today I will be joined by Derrick Jensen from the Deep Green Resistance; Keith Preston from Attack the System to discuss the important of reaching across the aisle to communicate with people in camps
The Rise and Fall of the Matriarch: Gender-Oscillation in Jewish Paganism
NO serious discussion of Jewish spirituality would be complete without a thorough examination of the incestuous trends that existed among Jews prior to the development of the Judaic religion. It is not
Friedrich Oetinger and the Quest for Anarchist Utopia
EXAMINING the roots of Friedrich Schelling's (1775-1854) thought led me to a Swabian Pietist by the name of Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702-1782), someone I would describe as a proto-anarchist. I have
Review: OSTARA - Eclipse of the West (Soleilmoon Recordings, LP/CD)
IT seems hard to believe that it is now over twenty years since Ostara first burst on the scene. It was 1999 when I made the short trip from my home in South London to the old World Serpent Distribution
What Rough Beast Slouches Towards Washington and Beijing?
As the smoke slowly settles on the bucolic hills of my farmland community and many others, the Coronavirus nightmare may be far from over, but the worst of it appears to be in the rearview mirror of the
The Patriot Act and Maximum Security Healthcare (Cuz Every Day Is 9/11)
It's such a played-out cliché that it's downright corny, but if you were born sometime before the mid-Nineties, you really do remember exactly where you were on 9/11. It was an event too cataclysmic to
As I scrawl the sloppy copy for my latest manifesto on a window pane between my thoughts on string theory and Kevin Bacon's connection to 9/11 (Madoff made him do it!), I am sincerely struck by America's
...Now Can We Celebrate Some Dangerous Black People?
Another Black History Month comes and another Black History Month goes. The 28/9 dreary days of the year when we reduce the history of the people who built this country beneath the weight of the whip to
MIDNIGHT. Hand-in-hand, two naked figures pass beneath the weather-beaten curves of a Romanesque arch, each slowly traversing the cool flagstones of the spacious nave and following the shifting shadows
IN this article I examine the various appearances of the infamous Ghost that haunts the theatrical scenes of William Shakespeare's famous play, Hamlet, which was written between 1599 and 1601. The Ghost
Marxism and Christianity: Analogous or Incompatible?
A NUMBER of political commentators have attempted to make a comparison between Marxism and Christianity, emphasising - and with some justification - that not only does each adhere to the linear mode of
The Real Desert Storm: Pan-Arabism and the Fight Against Colonialism
WHILST I first began writing articles in support of the Arab struggle against Zionist imperialism some thirty-five years ago, I have devoted rather less time to the history of Arab identity in general
When the Innocent Suffer for the Crimes of the Few: The Troubled History of the Jews of France
I. TUMULTUOUS TIMES - FRENCH JEWS AT A TIME OF REVOLUTION PRIOR to the third quarter of the nineteenth century, France underwent a violent succession of revolutions and counter-revolutions, changing its
BEFORE addressing this issue it is necessary to define what is meant by the terms 'Left' and 'Right,' I will then highlight the key political trends in Rerum Novarum and examine the practical efforts which
Radicals at War: The Scottish Insurrection of 1820
BY the late-eighteenth century, Scottish artisans were in a position whereby they had been permitted to determine their own hours of work. Known as commission, this development had allowed blacksmiths,
Revolution in Action: The Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic
I HAVE outlined the devastating effects of capitalist industry on many occasions in the past, examining the more radical attempts to formulate a theoretical and practical response to the serious problems