I'm posting Brecht's poem 'A Worker’s Speech To A Doctor' to draw attention to the recent publication of a pamphlet by the Radical History Network of North East London, The NHS IS 60: undervalued, under-funded, undermined.

Spiked-online column that describes mass surrender to the health police – or maybe just to middle class aesthetic prejudice – but falls far short of a suitable pitch of outrage.  The discontinued Bio-Power Digest calls on non-smokers everywhere to wear symbols of a Pledge to take the Filthy Habit up from July 1.   

Seeing through the smoking ban
All those countless No Smoking signs make a fitting epitaph to the Blair years in British politics, and a signpost to the future.
Mick Hume

Stewart Home reviews Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias

The media interest that surrounded dotcom mania was perhaps as short-lived and skin deep as the supposed economic miracle itself.

The 'Internet Revolution' is nearly a decade old. But what type of 'revolution' is it, and what type of revolutionaries are net users? The worlds of digital art and theory have gone round the houses on these questions; Pauline van Mourik Broekman caught up with three of their members - Sara Diamond, Roy Ascott and Geert Lovink - to get an update on the state of conflict