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January 2, 2011 - 7:29pm -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
Economy

End of the Recession? Who’s Kidding Whom? Immanuel Wallerstein

The media are telling us that the economic “crisis” is over, and that the world-economy is once more back to its normal mode of growth and profit. On December 30, Le Monde summed up this mood in one of its usual brilliant headlines: “The United States wants to believe in an economic upturn.” Exactly, they “want to believe” it, and not only people in the United States. But is it so?

December 24, 2010 - 8:38am -- jim
Analysis & Polemic
In the Streets

Almost Telegraphic Franco "Bifo" Berardi

Many things to say and little time to say them.

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 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 - 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 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.

December 9, 2010 - 12:13pm -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
The State

The New Spaces of Freedom Félix Guattari Montréal, November 1984 Translated by Arianna Bove and Noe Le Blanc

December 9, 2010 - 10:47am -- stevphen
Analysis & Polemic
The State

Social Security and the Global Crisis Andreas Exne

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