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Governance and the Undercommons Stefano Harney

The Third Term
 1. Governance is a third term, beyond sovereignty or
governmentality. Although the term governance may still mark a form
of government. It is longer only a political term. Governance is
also now a term of the economy, not in the sense that the economy is
also governed, as in corporate governance, but as economy itself.
Governance is a form of economic production itself.

Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me About the American Empire By Howard Zinn

With an occupying army waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with military bases and corporate bullying in every part of the world, there is hardly a question any more of the existence of an American Empire. Indeed, the once fervent denials have turned into a boastful, unashamed embrace of the idea.

Invaders from Marx: On the Uses of Marxian Theory, and the Difficulties of a Contemporary Reading By Michael Heinrich, Berlin

USA 2008: The Great Depression By David Usborne in New York, Independent.co.uk

Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world's richest country faces economic crisis

We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their

http://hydrarchy.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-is-left.html

What is the Left?

An excerpt from The Paris Commune: A Political Declaration on Politics in Polemics, Verso, 2006.

Civil Society, Citizenship and the Politics of the (Im)possible: Rethinking Militancy in Africa Today by Michael Neocosmos

Abstract

The contemporary critique of neo-liberalism has concentrated overwhelmingly on its economic theory and socio-economic effects. Very little has been written so far on its political conceptions, particularly of the limited thinking which it imposes on political thought and practice. This paper makes a contribution to the latter endeavour by making a case for thinking an emancipatory politics in contemporary Africa. It shows that civil

Is This the Big One? Jeff Faux, The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080414/faux [from the April 14, 2008 issue]

For more than a decade, we Americans have been living on an economic San Andreas fault--a foundation of fracturing competitiveness covered by unsustainable consumer spending with money borrowed from foreigners. A financial earthquake was inevitable. We don't know how high on the recession Richter scale the current crisis will take us, but it increasingly looks like, as they say in San Francisco, "The Big One."

"Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond" is a new pamphlet just published by Collective Reinventions. For a pdf of this lengthy analysis of the implications of the Oaxacan movement send a message to: contact@collectivereinventions.org. Or write to: djacobs88@hotmail.org

Collective Reinventions

South American Anarchists and Anti-Militarists Say NO to War

* The threat of armed conflict involving the governments of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela has mobilized anarchists and anti-militarists across the continent, in words and in action, to repudiate what would be a monstrous aggression by state powers against our peoples. Below there are two documents that call for struggle against this evil.

__Declaration of Latin American antimilitarists: We don’t need another war__

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