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1851 novel by Ernst Jones, Chartist lead and friend of Marx and Engels.Today, with the British left in Your Party making the latest attempt to regroup and unify its forces, Ernst Jones’ satire of a drunken evening serves as a sobering reminder: plus ça change. blackd.substack.com/p/as-soon-as...
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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TJ Clark "We’re all tired of apocalypse-speak. Nonetheless, the spectacle still has a few surprises up its sleeve… Trump, the genius of détournement, delights in saying out loud what the “lunatic left” is accused of." blackd.substack.com/p/liberal-hy...
The Don of Détournement
Spectacle Undermines Liberal Hypocrisy Shock
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January 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
TJ Clark "We’re all tired of apocalypse-speak. Nonetheless, the spectacle still has a few surprises up its sleeve… Trump, the genius of détournement, delights in saying out loud what the “lunatic left” is accused of." blackd.substack.com/p/liberal-hy...
The Don of Détournement
Spectacle Undermines Liberal Hypocrisy Shock
blackd.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM
1851 novel by Ernst Jones, Chartist lead and friend of Marx and Engels.Today, with the British left in Your Party making the latest attempt to regroup and unify its forces, Ernst Jones’ satire of a drunken evening serves as a sobering reminder: plus ça change. blackd.substack.com/p/as-soon-as...
December 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
(In the Amazon Twilight Zone no one can hear you scream)
November 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Memo to #ZarahSultana #JohnMcDonnell on the #Chartists:
'By challenging the prevailing hegemony relating to the events and significance of 1839, this book assists us greatly in understanding the potential for future challenges to the system.' New revised edition 2025
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FWZNBZSS
1839: The Chartist Insurrection and the Newport Rising
Buy 1839: The Chartist Insurrection and the Newport Rising by Black, David, Ford, Chris, McDonnell MP, John, Harney, George Julian, Aveling, Edward (ISBN: 9798270579333) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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October 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
4 November is anniversary of the Newport Rising
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October 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This year’s Anarchists of London Bookfair takes place on Saturday 20 September at the Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel under Waterloo Station starting 10 a.m.
B.P.C. Books will be sharing a table with Chronos Press.
September 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
‘Listen, dear brothers, you have embittered the hearts of your lords so greatly with an excess of gall that they will never be sweetened again’. The current rebellion was so far advanced any turning back would end in mass slaughter and a new stage of 'slavery'.
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1525 - The German Peasant War Re-assessed
Did Marx and Engels get it right?
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August 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Lyndal Roper’s book, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War 1525 aims ‘to understand the world the peasants inhabited through uncovering the rich details of their daily lives, and to reconstruct their beliefs…’ Reviewed at thebarbarismofpureculture.co.uk/wp/the-1525-...
August 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The last couple of years have seen Operation Julie: the Musical; The Microdot Gang: The Rise and Fall of the LSD Network That Turned On the World by James Wyllie; new edition of Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain by Andy Roberts. And there's this
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LSD Alchemy in Deepest Wales
Below the Pavement the Beach Read
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August 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
August 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The Expressionist and the Nazis
GW Pabst in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, The Director
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The Expressionist and the Nazis
GW Pabst in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, The Director
blackd.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Expressionist and the Nazis
GW Pabst in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, The Director
blackd.substack.com/p/the-expres...
The Expressionist and the Nazis
GW Pabst in Daniel Kehlmann’s novel, The Director
blackd.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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1839: The Chartist Insurrection - re-issued as an ebook - @pure-culture.bsky.social
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1839: The Chartist Insurrection - re-issued as an ebook
'A revolutionary handbook’
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July 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM