Mute which I drew attention to on this blog before also tends to publish some quality articles that don't make it into the print version, here are some recent ones..

In the Bowels of the Fun Palace [1]
By Mark Crinson

Architect Cedric Price's designs were seldom realised but his vision
inspired 'fun palaces' from the Beaubourg to the Millenium Dome. Mark
Crinson looks at two recent publications which deal in different ways
with Price and his legacy

French Banlieues and Urban Guerrillas [2]
By Yves Coleman

Mute recently published Italian sociologist Emilio Quadrelli’s long
text
on the 2005 riots in the French banlieues, ‘Grassroots Political
Militants: Banlieusards and Politics’. Here, Parisian activist Yves
Coleman responds to the claims and arguments made by Quadrelli and the
militants whose testimonies appear in his text. Coleman argues that
their vision of endo-colonial guerrilla warfare in the peripheries of
French society is a dangerous piece of political myth making: while the

left is indeed disengaged from the reality of life in the banlieues,

New Left, Old Pessimism [3]
By James Heartfield

Duncan Thompson’s book, Pessimism of the Intellect: A History of the
New
Left Review, painstakingly reconstructs the journal’s long-term
engagement with the British left from its post-Prague Spring
reconstitution up until today. Despite the intra-left skirmishes and
role reversals, the bigger picture that emerges, writes James
Heartfield, is of the British left’s historical inability to act