A Post-Fordist struggle: Report & reflections on the UK Ford-Visteon dispute 2009
NEW PAMPHLET FROM PAST TENSEpast tense has a new FREE pamphlet available for your delectations
Italian State Attempts to Arrest Anomalous Wavewww.edu-factory.org
Last night 21 Italian students of the universities of Turin, Padua, Naples and Bologna have been arrested through a violent act of the Italian police. Sixteen students have been imprisoned, and other five have to stay under house arrest. Moreover two social centres and several houses have been raided and searched in Turin, Padua and Naples.
"A Homemade Politics" Abahlali baseMjondolo
[Matt Birkinshaw, an anarchist from London, spent three months living in Abahlali baseMjondolo communes in Durban and Cape Town in 2008. This paper, prepared for a conference in Manchester, gives a brief but useful overview of the movement.]
Rights, democracy and social movements in South Africa Matt Birkinshaw – Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, Manchester Metropolitan University, 15-17 March 2009
Society of the Query conference 13 - 14 November, Trouw Amsterdam in Amsterdam
PROVIDENCE ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR ! FUN! BOOKS ! BEER ! DANCING ! REVOLUTION IN THE AIR ! August 15th 1pm to 1am on Empire Street, Providence, Rhode Island
The annual Providence Anarchist Bookfaire is back again this year and we want you to come on by and enjoy the events , get some books and participate. The bookfair is set up during a street festival *Foo Fest* put on by a local art and community center called AS220. This years festival has changed with a 5 dollar cover and a family friendly focus in the afternoon. Bring the kids!
Pirate Bay Website Sold for $7.8 Million
Today, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has announced it has acquired The Pirate Bay website for 60 million SEK, which is roughly the equivalent of $7.8 million USD.
This was almost immediately confirmed by The Pirate Bay. Although the title of their post is entitled “TPB might change owner,” from the text of the post it is obvious that the site has indeed been sold.
To Guy Debord in Hell (please forward if necessary) Bill "Not Bored" Brown (http://www.notbored.org/1957-1994.html)
"Although I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than the majority of people who write, but I have drunk more than the majority of people who drink." -- Guy Debord, Panegyric (1989)
"Where's my mail? Who's fucking with my mail?" -- The Lone Ranger, in Lenny Bruce's posthumous film short, Thank You Mask Man (1968)
Affective Politics & the Imagination of Everyday ResistanceBluestockings Wednesdays 4–6 PM from July 15th – August 26th 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington, NYC • Instructors: Jack Z. Bratich & Stevphen Shukaitis
Loren Goldner and Howie Seligman, NYC Summer Study Group on Capitalist Crisis
Howie Seligman and I will be doing a 9-week study group in the New York City area on Marxian theory and the current crisis. If you are interested, read on. As the group is limited to 15 people, we will give priority to "advanced beginners" rather than to the pros who tend to predominate on Meltdown. But all applicants are welcome.
SUMMER STUDY GROUP ON MARX’S CAPITAL AND THE CURRENT CRISIS
Brainless Text Culture and Mickey Mouse Science Review of Stefan Weber, Das Google-Copy-Paste-Syndrome: Wie Netzplagiate Ausbildung und Wissen gefährden. Heise Verlag, Hannover: 2009. Dennis Deicke
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