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"The Order of War"

Antonio Negri

(First appeared in the Italian Global Magazine in November, 2002

Translated into English by Arianna Bove and Thomas Seay)
 


Iran, Iraq, North Korea.  Within the new world order, roles and pecking orders are being redefined through conflict with "rogues states".  This is the game in progress between the United States, China, Europe and Russia.

Annonymous Comrade writes:

"The Tribe of Moles"

Sergio Bologna (1977)


This article is a provisional attempt to trace the internal development of the autonomous class movement in Italy, which led to the explosive confrontation around the University occupations in Spring 1977. Such an analysis is only meaningful if it allows us to uncover the new class composition underlying these struggles, and to indicate the first elements of a programme to advance and further generalise the movement.

"There Is No Communism in 'Soviet' Russia"

Emma Goldman (1935)

Communism is now on everybody's lips. Some talk of it with
the exaggerated enthusiasm of a new convert, others fear and
condemn it as a social menace. But I venture to say that
neither its admirers--the great majority of them--nor those
who denounce it have a very clear idea of what Bolshevik
Communism really is.

"Slouching Toward Baghdad"

Mike Davis, February 28, 2003

Imperial Washington, like Berlin in the late 1930s, has become a
psychedelic capital where one megalomaniacal hallucination succeeds
another. Thus, in addition to creating a new geopolitical order in
the Middle East, we are now told by the Pentagon's deepest thinkers
that the invasion of Iraq will also inaugurate "the most important
'revolution in military affairs' (or RMA) in two hundred years."

"We Plebeians"

Brian Holmes

But for a few lone wolves, the Aristocrats are weary, recalcitrant,
suspicious. Dissension has broken out within the very ranks of the
Monarchy. And the eternal muttering of the Plebe has swollen to a
tremendous roar. Such is the world situation in the tripartite terms
of Empire.

Ben_Meyers writes

"The following interview appears in the March 1-15, 2003 issue of the Indian magazine Frontline as part of a larger cover focus on international opposition to the impending war.

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM


'This is a war linked to neo-liberal economics'


Interview with Tariq Ali by SHARMINI PERIES

"WSF is a magnificent moral demonstration against the war on Iraq," stated Tariq Ali, speaking on the topic "Against Militarisation and War" before a WSF panel on January 24, 2003. The Pakistan-born writer and political activist eloquently made his anti-war arguments to a cheering and elated crowd of over 20,000 gathered at the Gigantinho Stadium in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He urged the WSF to clearly add its voice to the growing anti-war movement across the world.

Anonymous Comrade writes

Answers to Two Gereat Mysteries

John Chuckman,
YellowTimes.org Columnist (Canada), Tuesday, February 18, 2003

(YellowTimes.org) -- On Friday, February 14, the Foreign Minister of France, M. de Villepin, gave a remarkable speech to the U.N. Security Council. The precision and force of reason with which he put France's case concerning Iraq were nothing less than astonishing.

hydrarchist writes:

This long essay is in three parts. The analysis comes from Aufheben magazine, whose other works can be found here.To print this article, click at the following links for the essay in printer-friendly format:

Part 1 --
Part 2 --
Part 3.


"Picket and Pot-Banger Together:

Class Re-Composition in Argentina?"


A Nation Implodes?

Following years of 'neo-liberal' restructuring in Argentina, and with thousands of private and state workers not having been paid in the last half of 2001, by the end of that year the social situation was deteriorating fast. The collapse of a heavily indebted economy threatened ever wider social sectors with the loss of their livelihoods. This situation was not going uncontested, however. There were twelve general strikes in 2001 alone. On just one day in August of that year, a huge piquetero action involved over 100,000 people and blocked 300 roads.

Anonymous comrade writes

"A Monument to Hypocrisy"

Edward Said, 16/02/2003


It has finally become intolerable to listen to or look
at news in this country. I've told myself over and over
again that one ought to leaf through the daily papers
and turn on the TV for the national news every evening,
just to find out what "the country" is thinking and
planning, but patience and masochism have their limits.
Colin Powell's UN speech, designed obviously to outrage
the American people and bludgeon the UN into going to
war, seems to me to have been a new low point in moral
hypocrisy and political manipulation. But Donald
Rumsfeld's lectures in Munich this past weekend went
one step further than the bumbling Powell in unctuous
sermonising and bullying derision.
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Anonymous Comrade writes:

To the Vector the Spoils
McKenzie Wark interviewed by Roy Christopher
from frontwheeldrive.com

http://frontwheeldrive.com/mckenzie_wark.html


Roy Christopher:
Let's get our terms aligned first:
How do you define the term 'hacker'? Do you
include artists, software developers and other so-
called 'knowledge workers'?


McKenzie Wark:
I think everyone who actually
creates 'intellectual property' could consider
themselves part of the same class -- the hacker class
? and as having convergent interests. So, yes, that
could include programmers, musicians, writers, and
also engineers, chemists -- all sorts of people who
are culturally distinct. What we have in common is
that we have to sell the products of our intellectual
labor to corporations who have a monopoly on
realizing its value. We invent the idea, but they
control the means of production. The laws that
used to protect us ? copyright and patent -- have
been subtly changing over the course of the last
few decades to protect corporate owners of
existing 'intellectual property', not individual
creators of new ideas. And so I wrote 'A Hacker
Manifesto', to dramatize this emergent conflict.

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