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February 17, 2003 - 2:27pm -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Electoral Politics

hydrarchist writes:

"The following interview is from issue 19 of the New Left Review, and is provided for the purpose of understanding the enemy better. Enmity after all is possible only towards one we actually know. The discussion ranges from the history and culture of LeMonde Diplomatique, the role of ATTAC and LMD in the organization of the World Social Forum and the current political and intellectual topography in France. "


The founder of the single most successful movement against neoliberal globalization, and architect of the World Social Forum,
discusses the French origins and international growth of ATTAC. Its connexions with Le Monde diplomatique and vision of the battles against financial markets and privatization to come.

"On the ATTAC"

Bernard Cassen

What are the origins of the movement that has developed so strongly in France against neoliberal globalization?

February 17, 2003 - 5:23am -- hydrarchist
Analysis & Polemic
In the Streets

Retort writes:



NEITHER THEIR WAR NOR THEIR PEACE

[IMAGE: Picasso, Guernica]

Last week, at American insistence, the copy of Picasso's Guernica in the anteroom to the UN Security Council Chamber was curtained over - not "an appropriate backdrop," it was explained, for official statements to the world media.

WE HAVE NO WORDS FOR THE HORROR TO COME,

for the screams and carnage of the first days of battle, the fear and brutality of the long night of occupation that will follow, the truck bombs and slit throats and unstoppable cycle of revenge, the puppets in the palaces chattering about "democracy," the exultation of the anti-Crusaders, Baghdad descending into the shambles of a new, more dreadful Beirut, and the inevitable retreat (thousands of bodybags later) from the failed McJerusalem.

February 14, 2003 - 8:11am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
News

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"Take a look at this fine little Flash animaton about Iraqi war!"

http://www.idleworm.com/nws/2002/11/iraq2.shtml

February 13, 2003 - 7:46am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
Theory

jason adams writes:

"The Constellation of Opposition"


Jason Adams

  • Introduction: The Constellation of N30


    • The protests that occurred around the world on November 30, 1999 (N30) were truly without precedent. They mark an important turning point in what had become increasingly fragmented struggles of new social movements constructed around various forms of antiauthoritarian politics, identity politics and ecological politics as well as traditional class struggle politics. In the cultural rebound against universalism after the 1960s, new social movements continuously sought to create autonomous space for the particularity of youth, queers, women and people of color as well as for the general ecology of the planet. While there have been enormous strides made since that time, the downside has been that in general, they have not succesfully articulated the intersectionalities of these various oppressions and resistances.
    February 13, 2003 - 6:12am -- hydrarchist
    Analysis & Polemic
    Theory

    These notes were transcribed at a'conference' organised by Officine Precarie in Pisa.

    Anonymous comrade writes:

    Public sphere, labour, multitude: strategies of resistance in Empire.

    "Sfera pubblica, lavoro, moltitudine. Strategie di resistenza nell'Impero".

    Con: Toni Negri, Paolo Virno. Coordina Marco Bascetta'


    Toni Negri:


    I am perplexed when I confront the issue of the common. Every time I start
    to follow this theme -I don't know why- it flees in all directions because
    it is so pregnant with modern and ancient ideological suggestions...In
    fact, any attempt to distinguish it from the private, or the state, or the
    public in the French sense, is almost impossible, at least for me, for how
    my head works. Hence, I don't claim to provide a conclusive definition and I
    have reservations with regard to definitions of strategy.

    February 12, 2003 - 9:18am -- jim
    Analysis & Polemic
    Independent Media

    Please submit your own comments on the last year, remedy the gaping holes in the review of events, other signioficant deaths, favourite article, books etc. whatever, alcoholic existential ramblings....


    "Instead of an Almanac..."

    Hydrarchist


    Okay so this is addressed to you, and that means:

    sho, lunacharsky, malatesta, pde, olly abbot, A cheeba, Daaaaih Looong, mobiustrip, pvh, tiliting, NMPW, antiproperty mxyzptlk, sark han T, nolympics, ducasse, praxcologer, MRGIMP, worldrevolt, shoplift, billydub, dureevital, mr oblivion, albamuth, mobiustrip44, grumpy, who have made comments when logged in as well AWM, Phuq Hedd and Chuck0 who never log-in but always sign their contributions. Also for La Citta Invisibile and Rekombinant who run RSS boxes to our headlines.

    Here's the stats: there were 845 stories and 545 comments. So the difficulty in being participatory, rather than modelled on a traditional broadcast model, is plain. The following panoramic view of the site's activity makes no claim to cover all of the salient events of the year; many things are missing, notably commentary on the US's financial scandals, news from the social and economic earthquakes of Uruguay and Brazil, and commentary that would do justice to the fight in Israel-Palestine, just to name a few. In fact, the value of this summary lies in the lacunae revealed. Nonetheless it reflects the interests of the site's administrators and users, mirrored in the subject matter of the popular stories posted, those which generated discussion (still all too few) and those that decisively more readers than the rest.

    February 10, 2003 - 3:39pm -- hydrarchist
    Analysis & Polemic
    Theory

    Salvation Isreal writes:
    Accumulation Of Capital In a Geographical Dimension




    The Essence of Internationality in Capitalism



    “Capitalism is inherently international,” argued K. Marx and thus, workers of the world should unite. The rigid distinction between the empirical and the theoretical drove many of the old orthodox economists away from anticipation of the future. What was told in Communist Manifesto was not clearly being observed during those years but it is observed explicitly and dramatically today. Capital is and must be –to survive- international, hence from that time Manifesto was declared on the earth is experiencing the transformation from the national to the transnational within capitalistic mode of production and consumption. The core question is why the capital feels the need for this formation and howcome this becomes the essential reality.

    February 7, 2003 - 8:34am -- jim
    Analysis & Polemic
    Work

    lazosubverto writes:

    "The Art of Flight: An Interview"

    Yann Moulier-Boutang with Stany Grelet


    Part One: Exodus

    Grelet: Since the introduction of your work De l'esclavage au salariat in 1998,
    you have presented your central idea that, in the history of capitalism, the control of
    the flight of workers would be the power of the constitution of the salaried worker.

    February 7, 2003 - 8:13am -- jim
    Analysis & Polemic
    The State

    hydrarchist writes: "This essay, which first appeared in L'Autre journal, no. 1 (May
    1990), is included in the forthcoming translation of Pourparlers
    (Paris: Editions Minuit, 1990), to be published by Columbia
    University Press. It previously appeared in October #59, Winter 1992, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3-7."


    "Postscript on the Societies of Control"

    Gilles Deleuze

    1. Historical


    Foucault located the "disciplinary societies" in the
    eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; they reach their height at the
    outset of the twentieth. They initiate the organization of vast
    spaces of enclosure. The individual never ceases passing from one
    closed environment to another, each having its own laws: first the
    family; then the school ("you are no longer in your family"); then
    the barracks ("you are no longer at school"); then the factory;
    from time to time the hospital; possibly the prison, the preeminent
    instance of the enclosed environment. It's the prison that serves
    as the analogical model: at the sight of some laborers, the heroine
    of Rossellini's Europa '51 could exclaim, "I thought I was seeing
    convicts."

    February 6, 2003 - 6:19pm -- Ben_Meyers
    Analysis & Polemic
    News

    "Oil and Iraqi War"

    Ralph Nader


    Despite well-known ties to Big Oil, Bush Administration officials have managed to keep a straight face as they insist that the drive to war against Iraq is motivated only by an effort to eliminate weapons of mass destruction and establish democracy. Tomorrow we'll see what evidence Secretary of State Powell presents to the United Nations. It is not credible that there would be such a strong push for war if there were no oil in Iraq. Oil is power and this is in significant measure a struggle over that power.

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