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Submitted by mute on Thursday, 3 December, 2009 - 14:42
Ben Seymour A piece on the weekend's 'Youth Fight For Jobs' march and some comments from me. This article is useful and critical but also provoking. Manages not to mention the Socialist Party somehow but makes clear the problem of a front-built movement without a back or base. And the key question is raised: 20% youth unemployment and no movement, no struggle; how bad does it have to get? subject: Pathopraxis
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Submitted by Ben on Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 - 13:37
Reactor / Ben I am hoping this is some kind of parody of the nigh universal tendency for (relational/new media/ all?) art to resemble the collateral campaign in The Man Without Qualities. [cf Matthew Hyland's great article on Documenta in Mute a few years back]. But it might just be a second order symptom of the disease hiding behind the illusion of a cure. subject: Art | Artivism | Biotechnology | Conceptual | Socially Engaged | Surrealist
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Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 24 August, 2009 - 13:30
Belle Le Triste-Tropiques /Jill Sherman, The Times This public sector organisation committed to the production of 'cultural relations' (eg cultural relations such as voluntary redundancy, early retirement, etc) is leading the way with the global outsourcing of the UK State. This latest move is perhaps inspired by Bordiga's progressive proposal that the soviet union should be run remotely by the communist parties of other nation states, but that's by the by – it's definitely in the vanguard of retrogression. subject: Financial Crisis | Government | Institutional Critique
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Submitted by Ben on Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 - 00:38
Loren Goldner / Ansel at Mediahacker Podcast: S. Korea workers’ 77-day factory occupation broken by violent police assault: http://www.mediahacker.org/2009/08/podcast-ssangyong-workers-occupation/ An interview with Loren Goldner about the epic Ssangyong workers struggle in Korea which ended with a brutal assault by police last week - chronically under-reported in mainstream and alternative media but surely one of the largest and most militant workers' occupations since the beginning of the crisis. subject: Financial Crisis | Labour Struggles | Social Movements
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 16 June, 2009 - 15:09
SOAS Cleaners Solidarity Campaign We are writing to express our solidarity with the SOAS cleaners who were forcibly detained by the Immigration and Border Police at the School on 12 June, and to denounce the School authorities for facilitating this outrageous assault on a vulnerable group of migrant workers who dared to fight back.
Many of us are former and current PhD students and staff at SOAS or affiliated with SOAS, researching and teaching in the field of Development Studies.
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 16 June, 2009 - 10:07
Mute University of Westminster management have just offered academic staff a settlement on their framework agreement without the agreement of the UCU union. This means that academic staff are being offered quite large amounts to sign agreements by 26th June that will, in effect, undermine the role of the union. To quote from a union memo the agreement will:
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Submitted by Ben on Thursday, 2 April, 2009 - 14:34
PostFordist Support Visteon Factory Occupation in London, Enfield Short Report, 2nd of April 2009 After car parts manufacturer Visteon announced job cuts workers occupied plants in Belfast, basildon and Enfiled. In Enfield about 70 workers - men and women from all kinds of backgrounds - are still inside the plant and on the roof. Last Tuesday the management called for a general assembly and told people that they would have to leave their workplace immediately. They were told to fetch their personal belongings the next day at 10 am. When people turned up the factory was already closed. subject: Labour Struggles
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Submitted by Ben on Wednesday, 21 January, 2009 - 23:34
UK underwriter / Iain Martin Death by (il)liquidity, final chapter. subject:
Science | Fictitious Capital | Financial Crisis | Fluxus
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