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?

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.

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.

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.