Review section of anti-corporate books, 'zines, music, media and other cool stuff.

Ten Years and Our Top Ten of Publications Opposing Corporate Power in the UK and the US, compiled by Loukas Christodolou

10 The Financial Times
Seriously. Read the right way the financial papers are an essential resource for those opposing corporate power. In these publications the corporate élite write for each
other, express their real aims and offer a clear picture of the power politics and hunt for profits that underlies the day's events.
Details: At www.ft.com you can read today's edition of the FT for free - save web pages you find useful before they disappear into the archive, or check it out at your local library.

9 UKWatch
Modelled on ZNet (see below), this website aims to collect together the best in UK political writing. It is much smaller than its American role model, but well worth regular attention.
Details: See www.ukwatch.net

8 Multinational Monitor
The granddaddy of all corporate watchers, the MM has been hunting down the polluters and abusers of the corporate world since 1981.
Details: See their Dirt Diggers Digest via www.corpresearch.org/dirt_diggers_index.htm

7 SpinWatch
A collective of UK-based activists and academics dedicated to busting government and corporate attempts at 'image management'. A valuable weapon against the PR industry
Details: Go to spinwatch.org to see the
archive of articles and sign up for the email updates.

6 ZNet
A massive collection of US radical writing, updated regularly. Drawn from Z Magazine, the ZNet project brings together the works of writers such as Noam Chomsky and the late Edward Said. There are also other subject-based resources for
activists, plus a collection of blogs from regularly featured writers.
Details: Check out www.zmag.org

5 Media Lens
The media corporations, whatever their political allegiance, or the opinions of their readers, are all based on the corporate system, dependent on advertisers for the majority of
their income. Hence, despite all attempts at journalistic impartiality, the media present a fundamentally pro-corporate image. Correcting for some of this is UK-based Media
Lens, whose editors issue alerts when they sight particularly egregious media distortions.
Details: Go to www.medialens.org to sign up for the alerts and see past articles.

4 SourceWatch
SourceWatch is an encyclopedia of information from the US-based Centre for Media and Democracy. SourceWatch is focussed on public relations and propaganda. It holds thousands of profiles, including of companies, government organisations, QUANGOS, shadowy front groups and think-tanks. The site is set up as a 'wiki', which means that, in theory, anyone can write and/or edit a profile while a single editor
exercises quality control.
Details: Go to www.sourcewatch.org, search for the company profile you are interested in. If it's not there, write your own!

3 SchNEWS
The UK activist scene of the 1990s, based in ecological direct action, illegal raves and squats produced many free news sheets, of which the greatest and most successful is SchNEWS of Brighton, publishing stories touching on both local and
global issues. Reaching thousands of readers via the Internet, it first emerged through that former technological breakthrough - the photocopier. SchNEWS originals are
posted around the country, for people to copy and hand out themselves. Since 1994 this A4 news sheet is still coming out on Friday every week... except during the festival period of course.
Details: See the latest issue, and the full archive, at www.schnews.org.uk

2 Corp Watch (US)
Based in California, Corp Watch set up the same week that we did, for the same reasons, but with no other connection to us. They have a fine range of company profiles, covering US corporations, especially in the military-industrial complex and connected to profiteering from the 'War on Terror'. The work that Corp Watch has done on corporations' involvement in Iraq trail blazed the way for our own work in the same area. We still get phone calls intended for them...
Details: See their full range of work at www.corpwatch.org

1 Indymedia
More than just one publication, Indymedia is a global phenomenon. During the late 1990s many activists were increasingly fed up at having their actions misrepresented in the mainstream media. In 1999, networks of tech-savvy activists set up website portals for participants in
grassroots movements to talk directly to each other, especially to cover that year's Carnival Against Capitalism (London) and anti-WTO protests (Seattle). Nowadays there
are IMC (Independent Media Centre) sites in many countries.
Indymedia is our number one publication because it is more than just a source of information for resisting corporate power, it is a model for a non-corporate system of media
based on grassroots control.
Details: Go to the global hub at www.indymedia.org for a digest of global content, or www.indymedia.org.uk for news related to these islands.