Category: Situationist (and Pro-Situ)

Subversive Books – The B.P.C. Catalogue

B.P.C. Books Catalogue

Below are all B.P.C. titles -eleven in all – published to date (2022-2025) as paperback and ebook, available on Amazon and in world libraries via PublishDrive.

1839: The Chartist Insurrection and the Newport Rising, by David Black and Chris Ford, with an Introduction by John McDonnell M.P. (new edition of the book published by Unkant in 2012)

Buy at Amazon: Paperback and Kindle: HERE

March 2025

The Phantasmagoria of Capital: A Short History of the Commodity, the Spectacle and its Discontents, by David Black

Buy at Amazon: Paperback and Kindle: HERE

WiseBooks Series 1 -5

Lost Texts Around King Mob, by Dave and Stuart Wise. with contributions from John Barker, Chris Gray, Ronald Hunt, Phil Meyler and Fred Vermorel

Buy at Amazon: Paperback and Kindle: HERE

Dialectical Butterflies: Ecocide, Extinction Rebellion, Green and Rewilding the Commons – an Illustrated Derive, by Dave and Stuart Wise.

Buy at Amazon: Paperback and Kindle: HERE

King Mob: the Negation and Transcendence of Art, by Dave and Stuart Wise

Buy at Amazon: Paperback and Kindle: HERE

A Newcastle Dunciad: Memories of Music and Recuperation, by Dave and Stuart Wise

Buy at Amazon: Paperback and Kindle: HERE

Building For Babylon: Construction, Collectives and Craic, by Dave and Stuart Wise

Buy at Amazon: Paperback and Kindle: HERE

Helen Macfarlane

Red Chartist: Complete Annotated Writings, and her Translation of the Communist Manifesto, by Helen Macfarlane

Buy at Amazon: Paperback only: HERE

 

Red Antigone: The Life and World of Helen Macfarlane 1818-60, by David Black

Buy at Amazon: Paperback and Kindle: HERE

Psychedelic History

Psychedelic Tricksters: A True Secret History of LSD, by David Black

Buy at Amazon: Paperback and Kindle: HERE

LSD Underground: Operation Julie, the Microdot Gang and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, by David Black

Buy at Amazon: Paperback and Kindle: HERE

 

LSD in the Water Supply a ‘Myth’ Shock

‘An entire city stoned on a nightmare drug – that was the crazy ambition of the masterminds behind the world’s biggest LSD factory.’

#LSDUnderground

The Daily Mirror, 1978: ‘An entire city stoned on a nightmare drug – that was the crazy ambition of the masterminds behind the world’s biggest LSD factory.’

The ‘masterminds’ were chemist Richard Kemp and his partner Dr Christine Bott – both jailed in the ‘Operation Julie’ trial days earlier. Kemp got 13 years. As for Bott, chemist Andy Munro, later commented, ‘Bott got nine years for making sandwiches. I got ten years for making acid’.

The Mirror continued:

‘Top chemist Richard Kemp and his mistress… planned to blow a million minds simultaneously by pouring pure LSD into the reservoirs serving Birmingham. Detectives were horrified when they heard what the drug barons had in mind.’

How the ‘acid in the water supply’ nonsense became front page news is one of the things explored in my new book, LSD UNDERGROUND: Operation Julie, the Microdot Gang and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love (available in paperback or ebook at Amazon).

Clue: The story, which was police-sourced, was written by Ed Laxton, the ghost writer for Operation Julie undercover officer Martyn Pritchard’s book, Busted!The Sensational Life-Story of an Undercover Hippie (1978).

The preface to LSD UNDERGROUND can be read on this site HERE