““A schoolmaster is a productive labourer when, in addition to belabouring the heads of his scholars, he works like a horse to enrich the school proprietor. That the latter has laid out his capital in a teaching factory, instead of in a sausage factory, does not alter the relation” As Karl Marx suggested in his […]
The Arithmetic of Border Control
Immigration and Border Control Joe Rigby weighs in on the debate over the value of different forms of immigration and argues that neo-racism prevents questioning of how immigration came to be constituted as a problem at all. Numbers, limits and caps, or more precisely, their real, purported and/or threatened transgressions, are key operators in the […]
Smiley Culture and Saxon Posse: Police Officer (1984)
Smiley Culture – Police Officer Everytime me drive me car police a stop me superstar True me drive a fiat and a Mercs, Sell weh me Lancia So more time when me go a Esat London fe check some cockneys Them a tell me to produce insurance, license and M.O.T. but me say…….. Police Officer […]
Smiley Culture
Smiley Culture’s death in police raid The death of Smiley Culture when Police raided his home on Tuesday 15 March is a tragedy to outrage and galvanise the Black community and their friends. Two big events so far and another one planned for May 7 mean this call for justice cannot be swept away with […]
Protest Heralds New Age
Adam Hutchings, London to protest March 26th saw one hundred billion people descend upon London to protest the cuts. Said Brendan Barber, leader of the TUC on the largest gathering in the history of mankind, “It was a great turn out.” In Hyde Park, as the march began, Labour’s Ed Miliband said, “This just shows […]
Letters
More lettuce to chew over from our readers. Dangerous Alliances: Class and the Student Movement, Edition Zero is really very interesting and beautifully written. Reminds me of Pasolini’s Valle Giulia but, just like Pasolini’s poem, I think there might be a problem in your argument. Whether you’re from Oxbridge or Croydon shouldn’t count in a […]
Editorial Edition Two
To call to account, account for something, be of account. ‘To count’ can mean to tally or calculate but also to matter, esteem or to have importance. It is in the interstices of these literal and idiomatic meanings of measure that this issue of The Paper precariously sits. Measure is all around us. Our phone […]
DIY GUIDE No. 4 VISA MARRIAGE GUIDE
UK Marriage Visa Marriage is sacred. Marriage is all about love matches. Oh, and money. Also politics, and property. And reproduction, don’t forget reproduction. And ideology. But mostly love. Here is a guide to making sure your lovely papers are in order. 0: Be rich (or start saving) This revenue-generating exercise will cost well in […]
Black is…Black ain’t
Testament Black Block Blackness is testament to the fact that objects can and do resist / Fred Moten, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition After March 26th the term ‘Black bloc’ became part of the lexicon of the mainstream media. Black bloc was turned into a convenient catch-all term. It was […]
A Goldsmiths Occupation
Statement on the Goldsmiths Occupation 21 March – the eve of the first day of stop work by the University College Union (UCU), Goldsmiths students took a step that would demonstrate concrete solidarity and open up the possibility of new avenues of resistance. We occupied the opulent headquarters of Goldsmiths Senior Management Team at Deptford […]