By supporting NGOs, is the left suppressing a radical politics in Haiti and elsewhere?

Paolo Virno's latest book contends that the question of human nature – good or evil? – is suddenly topical, thanks to ‘immaterial labour'. But, if true, how useful is this insight?, asks Nina Power

Finally Got the News Saturday, June 28, 8pm, £0 The Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton St, Elephant & Castle, London SE17 Rare screening of documentary (dir. Steward Bird, Rene Lichtman, Peter Gessner) on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, from wildcat movement to formidable independent workers organization, inside and outside the auto factories of insurgent turn-of-the-'70s Detroit.

No other group has had such a catalysing influence on the new political forms and tactics espoused by the anti-globalisation movement, yet there has been too little critical analysis of the Zapatistas' politics and the relationship of western activists to their guerilla icons. Melancholic Troglodytes review Mihalis Mentinis' book Zapatistas: The Chiapas Revolt and What It Means for Radical Politics and discovers some ugly nationalist features behind the mask

The Survival Scrapbooks are a series of six books published in the early-1970s covering different aspects of autonomous living from a practical perspective.  Several authors contributed to the series, often with additional input from others.  The titles in the series, and their authors, were:

volume 1: Shelter, 1972 - Stefan Szczelkun
contents: different forms of wild, mobile, or simple-to-build accommodation including caves, hand-made tents, wooden huts, and vans.

Stewart Home reviews two new publications dealing with the Situationist International and other political currents of the 1960s: Art-Ist magazine's Situationist International special issue and Dancin’ In The Streets!, a collection of texts from Rebel Worker and Heatwave

Zeigam Azizov's specially comissioned art project

Migrasophia:

Unusual phrases for the usual phrase book (extracts)

20-odd years after its original publication, Jacques Attali revised his book Noise in an attempt to retro-fit recent developments to his original predictions about the future of music and the political economy. Here, Paul Helliwell considers the critical reception of Noise version 2.0

In Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle Slavoj Zizek applies his theoretical apparatus to the war on terror once again. Mark Fisher reviews the book and finds that there are some things the US intelligence services didn't know they knew

Did Guy Debord kill the avant-garde? Two new translations of works by the Situationist capo de tutti capi (Complete Cinematic Works and Considerations on the Assassination of Gérard Lebovici) give ample proof of death’s regenerative effects, says Stewart Home

Complete Cinematic Works: Scripts, Stills, Documents, Guy Debord, translated and edited by Ken Knabb, AK Press, Oakland and Edinburgh 2003

In her recent book, Irrational Modernism, Amelia Jones advances a ‘neurasthenic’ reading of the New York Dada scene, centred on the marginalised figure of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven whose eccentricities, bizarre dress code and self-ostracising stench embodied and challenged the spirit of Dada.

How is cinema affected by the transition from film to digitality? What of the cinematic imaginary in the age of the post-chemical moving image? ZKM’s blockbuster catalogue Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film, which accompanied its 2002-3 exhibition, achieves both exhaustive historical research and a reined-in utopian futurecasting

Stewart Home sniffs out some links between art, farts and modernist materialism in three novels by French songwriters and litterateurs Boris Vian and Serge Gainsbourg