dan hancox

I noticed this new sign outside the entrance to my local Tesco on Friday: Food bank collections inside supermarkets are not a new phe...

   It seems strange for a nation famed for its exuberance, but Spain's national anthem, La Marcha Real, is one of only two wordless a...

Today's #N14 general strike is a one day strike, beginning not with pickets in place for 9am, the start of the average working day, but ...

My ebook about Marinaleda and the Spanish crisis - only £3.60, available here - came out in late August and has been doing very well, tha...

“I think there is a cultural point in Spain, there is a Catholic way of thinking. They say that life is... a valley of tears. We have ...

Hi, sorry I've been a bit quiet on here. I've just finished a book on Spain, I'm editing a website called ourBeeb full-time til...

A quick note on the source material for Plan B's controversial new single about the London riots, Ill Manors (quick link catch-up:  Do...

I'm in a small village near Barcelona for a month, working on something big on Spanish utopianism, its anarchist history, the indignados...

I was lucky enough to meet the shadowy, secretive collective of 'IKEA Anarchists', the Deterritorial Support Group, who transforme...

Here's several 1400 word album review essay pieces for The National. Pulp's 80s Fire Records re-issues , socialism, lyric-writin...

Right. I haven't updated links on here for way too long, so here's lots at once. This is a feature for The National about the Ita...

[This was originally posted on Lower End Spasm on 21 May 2009, in response to a debate which is now too old, dead, and settled (we won, lol)...

After the kettle, the cordon The 2 million-strong public sector strike on 30 November was accompanied by a march of 30,000 through centr...

On the way from Osaka to the art islands of the Seto Inland Sea - a journey which took two boats, two trains, and two buses - we had a two h...

High up a steep hill, overlooking Kyoto, we found another, much quieter city. The only break from the stillness was the occasional sorties...

I've just been to Japan for two weeks. One day, we went up a mountain near Kobe in dense fog. The funicular ride up Rokko Mountain t...