Past Issues
#3: Or What’s a Hell For?
Perspective 3: Or What’s a Hell For?
Elephants and donkeys; the perfidy of the Labour benches; the continuing movements of peoples; and the Left’s fails, redux.
THE EDITORS
Neither Westminster Nor Brussels
The referendum approaches: EU in or EU out? Salvage’s editors refuse to submit to yet afuckingnother non-choice.
HELEN HESTER
Technically Female: Women, Machines, and Hyperemployment
Work it, baby – with the emphasis firmly on work. On Siri, sultriness and the wage-form.
PANAGIOTIS SOTIRIS
The Realism of Audacity: Rethinking Revolutionary Strategy Today
In the rubble of the Oxi, in the degradation of the Troika’s Greece, an unflinching eye on what went wrong.
JOHN MERRICK
Corbyn Blimey: Labour and the Present Crisis
The gentle red versus the political economy of poshness. Once more on the undyingness of the ancien régime.
ROSIE WARREN
The Political Is Political: In Conversation With Yasmin Nair
Queers against getting hitched. The subjectivity of neoliberal feminism, the biopolitics of safety and the spectre of the personal.
ZACH SELL
White Overseers of the World
Transnational supremacy, the education of a whip-wielding sadist and free labour as euphemism.
TERESE SVOBODA
Setsuden
Poem
SCRAP PRINCESS
Parasite Gods
Art. King Need, Cry Baby, Engraver, Land Baron.
HANNAH ELSISI
Year V
Remembering the unbearable.
CHINA MIÉVILLE
From Choice to Polarity: Politics of, and, and in Art
Is it better to read an essay about politics or culture? Yes.
KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR
Extract from From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
The history of the Left and Black struggle: race and radicalism.
CAITLÍN DOHERTY
Annonay part 1
Continuing serialisation of the long three-section poem ‘OUR PARTY’.
SHABANE BAROT
The New Swedish Fascism: An Introduction
Dispatches from a changing and bleak landscape. A return to old questions, for new answers.
DAVID MABB
About Two Worlds
Art. An overlaying and meeting.
TERESE SVOBODA
Red Summer 1919
Poem
TONY NORFIELD
Finance, Economics and Politics
A red guide to reading the pink paper.
JEN IZAAKSON
The Abasement of Trauma
Trigger warning: trigger warnings.
BETHANY FINE
The Medium
Poem
SAM KRISS
BENGHAZI
On the sheer eldritchness, the uncanny, the bad sublime, the Real,
the beyonditude, of the always-already Hillary Clinton.
#2 Awaiting the Furies
Perspectives 2: Awaiting the Furies
Corbyn; borders; wars; orders; slowdowns and showdowns. Whither Salvage? Wither? Salvage?
RAFEEF ZIADAH
Messiah
Poem.
MICHELLE FARRAN
Anthropochory
Art. Insects and their others.
CHINA MIÉVILLE
On Social Sadism
Essence, excressence and the politics of neoliberal cruelty..
ANDREA GIBBONS
Salvaging Situationism: Race and Space
On colonialism, culpability and comrades. A dérive in honour of a dérive interrupted.
JORD/ANA ROSENBERG
Trans/War Boy/Gender: The Primitive Accumulation of T
A crackling heat of hormones and horror and hospitals and the hanged. This War Rig leaves the binary in its dust.
ROSIE WARREN
Some Final Words on Pessimism
CAITLÍN DOHERTY
FRAUEN-WERK-STADT part 2
Continuing serialisation of the long three-section poem ‘OUR PARTY’.
Our poetry is in print only. To see this poet’s work, please buy this issue.
KALPANA WILSON
Hedge Funds, Hype and Hindu Fascism: Modi Visits His Mother Country
The internationalisation of supremacist spite.
RICHARD SEYMOUR
The Ljubljana School of Radicalism
Interview. The startling opportunities and travails of potential power in Slovenia.
JOAN BANACH
from ‘Mnemosyne’, ‘Grassland’, and ‘Splash Page’
Art. Three investigations.
RAFEEF ZIADAH
Don’t Share
Poem.
KATY FOX-HODESS
Is an Injury to One an Injury to All? Some Critical Thoughts on Trade-Union Internationalism Today
From call to cliché, and how to make it count again. The bureaucratisation of solidarity and its discontents.
SAM KRISS
12 Theses on Astrology
Find out what’s in the stars for you in this month’s super soaraway Salvage!
SAI ENGLERT
Doykayt: Yiddishland for All
The antinomes of identity in a scourged history. The diaspora, the colonial-settler state and radical here-ness.
ALAIN BROSSAT & SYLVIA KLINGBERG
Extract from Revolutionary Yiddishland
Testimonials of resistance.
FRANCO FORTINI
Chorus of the Deported
Poem
NICK MAMATAS
The Person Who Was Followed Around By Men in Pig Masks: A Play in One Act
The porcine uncanny.
#1 Amid This Stony Rubbish
Perspectives 1: Amid This Stony Rubbish
On the fallacies of hope; skip-diving as heuristic; the need for earned pessimism; and on salvage.
JAMIE ALLINSON
Don’t Mourn, Accelerate
Radical theory feels the need for speed. Fad? Frippery? Or fillip? Communism, like the epoch, gets fast and furious.
MAGPIE CORVID
Marxism for Whores
Hacking through exoticism, shaming and disavowed fascination with a Marx-shaped machete.
ALBERTO TOSCANO
Communism Without Guarantees: On Franco Fortini
A reclamation of and (re-)introduction to the scandalously neglected expounder of a salvage-Marxism avant la lettre.
FRANCO FORTINI
Marxism
On fidelity with melancholy and without illusions.
FRANCO FORTINI
Bring Back Fanon In respect, with disputational marginalia, and in gratitude.
KEVIN OVENDEN
To Be Young in a Time of Crisis
In the brutalised and storied Greek nation, with tragedy in surplus, every particular death can be an optic into the crisis.
TRISH KAHLE
From Ferguson to #BlackLivesMatter
Updates from the frontiers of grief and unfolding rage, as the streets challenge a police methodology of racialised murder
LAURA OLDFIELD FORD
From ‘Seroxat, Smirnoff, THC’
Art. The painted records of a year’s investigative walking of the London/Surrey borders.
FRANCO FORTINI
Italy 1977-1993
Poem.
NEIL DAVIDSON
Neoliberalism as the Agent of Capitalist Self-Destruction
What happens when strategies for management become autophagous? If the rich ruin the predicates of their richness?
CAITLÍN DOHERTY
Second Home
Poem.
JOANA RAMIRO
Wish We Were Here: A Melancholy Postcard
Snapshots from a visit to Greece, frozen frames from the early days of an embattled rebellion.
DANIEL HARTLEY
Against the Anthropocene
On epochs, agency, accumulation, ideology, industrialism, agriculture, and the necessary indifference to catastrophe.
SEASON BUTLER
maiitude
Art. The traces and record of a performance.
RICHARD SEYMOUR
They’re Not Racist But: UKIP and the Crisis of Britain
Towards a genealogy and analysis of a loathsome British symptom, and on the shrewdness of faux dissidents and hard-right ‘clowns’.
CAITLÍN DOHERTY
Extract from ‘ANNONAY’
Poem
KAREN MIRZA
The Ectoplasm of Neoliberalism
Art. A collage on violence.
MARY ROBERTSON
Re-asking the Housing Question
Bricks and mortar after Engels, the assetisation of the home, commodified shelter, bubbles and trouble and class struggle.
KUNLE WIZEMAN AJAYI
They Know It, Muammar
Poem.
CHINA MIÉVILLE
The Limits of Utopia
Bad Hope as the enemy of revolt, in an era of too much, as well as too little, utopia; too much apocalypse; too much their crossbreed.
MORGANE MERTEUIL
Building a Sex Workers’ Trade Union:
Challenges and Perspectives
The grind of unionisation in a sector at the sharp end not only of mainstream, but of too much left and ‘feminist’, spite.
KUNLE WIZEMAN AJAYI
Wake Sankara, Burkina Is Red Again
Poem.
NICHOLAS BEURET AND GARETH BROWN
Dancing on the Grave:
Salvage, The Walking Dead and the End of Days
A digging and sifting in the boneyards and junkyards of culture,
to find out where we are. There will be shambling and decay.
PABLO MUKHERJEE
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow: Indian Fascism Now
In a moribund politics, ruins may be that which is most alive. Against the fantasies of reaction, a submerged history of water.
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MARK BOULD
Milton Friedman: An Obituary
(Meta)Fiction. One last laugh from the godfather of the yuks in a wry and moving eulogy.
FRANCO FORTINI
Complicity
Poem.