If relational aesthetics and open source were always commercial, can the musical score provide a way of thinking through different relationships between creativity and code? The return to improvisation in 'livecoding' draws parallels with experimental practices developed by maverick musicians, programmers and educators from Sun Ra, The Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Scratch Orchestra to Seymour Papert. Simon Yuill argues that these 'distributive practices' are worth extending today*

What is radical research? Does it emanate from grass roots social movements, the universities, both, or neither? Melancholic Troglodytes review AK Press’s recent collection of ‘militant research’ with an illustrated tour following the book's line of enquiry from the ‘ivory tower to the barricades’

This Anarchist Federation analysis of the National (UK) ID Database, parts of which are already up and running with no need for cards, needs to be read as widely as possible.  A terrifying account of how much more than abstract 'privacy' is at stake, and FOR WHOM. The surveillance complex is class-specific in that that it's administered through things like benefits, immigration control, council housing, 'social services' and zero tolerance policing, which some full homeowning citizens will never need to worry about.  Mass refusal based on existing practices of necessary illegality looks the best hope, as in the case of the poll tax.  But no-one is pretending it will be easy.  This is a call to act before it's too late.  Please distribute onwards (also available as a printed booklet from BM ANARFED, London WC1N 3XX).    

DEFENDING ANONYMITY - 2nd edition

Thoughts for struggle against identity cards

CONTENTS Introduction - what�s really wrong with ID? Common arguments against ID, and their limitations National ID on the cards (from Organise! 64, Summer 2005) RFID � a new technology for ID cards (also from Organise! 64) Interview with the French Anarchist Federation Information from the German Anarchist Federation Panoptican Society (based on a leaflet from Manchester) Ways to fight ID - starting now! Getting involved with Defy-ID LATEST UPDATES from Resistance bulletin, and links to other AF publications.

Introduction - what�s really wrong with ID?

The Labour Party has steamed ahead with its national identity scheme and anyone concerned about threats to our freedom from an increasingly authoritarian state should be worried by the Identity Cards Act, which has been passed with little change from what the government wanted, in spite of all the 'write to your MP' lobbying by No2ID and optimistic hopes of House of Lords amendments.

Strong analysis of state repression from A Murder of Crows (http://www.geocities.com/amurderofcrows1/), via libcom.org.  Makes the crucial connection between spectacular 'emergency' measures (SWAT teams, anti-terror laws etc) and the racially differentiated class war waged every day as 'community policing'.