Since 2004 the rhetoric of Bush’s republican party has turned curiously green, integrating climate change as a legitimation for neoliberal imperialism. At the same time the unintended consequence of America’s unsuccessful adventures has been to enrich an ‘anti-neoliberal’ class of oil rentiers in Africa, Latin America and Asia. George Caffentzis plots the changes in the US energy policy as it turns from eco-naysayer to ecowarrior

Editorial from the latest Prol-position newsletter (for live links to the full articles go to: http://www.prol-position.net/) which covers the European labour frontline in depth before turning to Brazil and India...

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Wireless and social networking technologies depend on and help shape the global logistics industry. This worldwide supply chain ensures just-in-time production responds to consumer demand, whether it be books from Amazon or exhaust pipes for Jaguars.

If, contra to theorists of ‘immaterial labour’, the mass worker is not dead but reconfigured, will networked production and distribution see the rise of networked labour struggles?

Continuity and Discontinuity in the Decline of Dollar-Centered World Accumulation

‘Today, capitalist paper expands and social reproduction contracts.’ In a single pithy line, Loren Goldner sums up the nature and form of capitalism’s current crisis.

In the '60s 'labour saving' technology was used to sell the promise of infinite leisure. After thirty years of speed ups and lay offs, RSI and dotcom sweatshops, the dream is looking distinctly tarnished. John Barker draws on his personal and theoretical capital to explore the contradictions and possibilities of a hi-tech, low-wage world

Re-posted from : Interactivist Info Exchange Collaborative Authorship, Collective Intelligence http://info.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=05/08/24/1936241

"Antonio Negri:
A Revolt That Never Ends"

A documentary about Toni Negri entitled "Antonio Negri: A Revolt that Never Ends" is now available via the collaborative video network V2V.