Radical media, politics and culture.
December 19, 2010 - 4:13pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Culture

"The Death of Universities"Terry Eagleton

December 19, 2010 - 1:49pm -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
The State

Wikileaks Beyond Wikileaks?Saroj Giri

December 18, 2010 - 10:34am -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

The Student Loan Debt Abolition Movement in the U.S. George Caffentzis

Debt has had a crushing impact on the lives of those who must take student loans to finance their university education in the US. For tuition fees that have been so notoriously high in private universities now are rising in public universities so quickly they are far out-pacing inflation. Student loan debt in the US has been much higher than in Europe (with the exception of Sweden), though recent developments there would indicate that this gap may soon no longer exist (Usher).

December 17, 2010 - 2:37pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Independent Media

Distributed Power in the 21st CenturyBrian Holmes

Should information about the US government’s dealings with the rest of the world be free? A lot of European hackers and NGOs seem to think so — and let’s not forget all the people on the other sides of the globe who agree.

December 15, 2010 - 4:26pm -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
In the Streets

"Hope Against Hope: A Necessary Betrayal" Nicolas

What has been taken from them to make them so angry? Hope, that's what. Hope, and the fragile bubble of social aspiration that sustained us through decades of mounting inequality; hope and the belief that if we worked hard and did as we were told and bought the right things, some of us at least would get the good jobs and safe places to live that we'd been promised. - Laurie Penny, New Statesman

December 14, 2010 - 2:49pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

The Autumn of the HegemonLouis Proyect

This was the year that the war in Afghanistan became the longest in American history. It was also a year in which a jobless recovery was threatening to spiral out of control, turning into a double-dip recession. For those with even the most underdeveloped capacity for making historical analogies, it should be rather obvious that the U.S. is facing the same kind of intractable contradictions that brought down the USSR.

December 14, 2010 - 12:53pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
In the Streets

"Abandoning Illusions, Preparing to Fight" Franco Berardi

What is happening in Rome and in many other Italian cities, what happened in London only few days ago, marks the beginning of the new decade. It’s going to be a decade of conflict, of the self-defense of society against a ruling class that is violent and corrupt, against financial capitalism that is literally starving the social sphere, against the mafia, that is using power to embezzle social resources.

December 14, 2010 - 11:19am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
In the Streets

Europe Calling: This Is Just the Beginning! Uniriot Roma

…You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows: occupation of universities everywhere in Europe, blockage of the cities, manif sauvage, rage. This is the answer of a generation to whom they want to cut the future with debts for studying, cuts of welfare state and increasing of tuition fees.

December 11, 2010 - 1:02pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
The State

US Justice Department Prepares Expansion of "Anti-Terrorism" Law Targeting ActivistsMichael Deutsch

December 10, 2010 - 11:23am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
In the Streets

The Return of King MobArmin Medosch

The student demonstrations against the rise of tuition fees, the fourth of which took place yesterday, 9 December 2010, signals the return of King Mob to the streets of London.

King Mob was the name of a British Situationist splinter group formed in the early 1970s which took its name from the Gordon Riots of June 1780, in which rioters daubed the slogan "His Majesty King Mob"' on the walls of Newgate prison, after gutting the building, Wikipedia informs us.

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