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Power cut hell OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Monday, 5 May, 2008 - 23:21
Hackney Gazette editorial

Apparently it's not considered newsworthy beyond the local press, but a whole block of the Morningside Estate in Hackney Wick/Homerton, i.e.


Undocumented Migrants Win Unpaid Wages in Sweden OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by jaya on Wednesday, 9 April, 2008 - 16:33

The syndicalist SAC union in Sweden has over the last few months been campaigning for fair wages for undocumented immigrants , resulting in thousands of pounds in unpaid wages being paid to migrant workers.


Outsourcing: lie of the land OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Monday, 24 March, 2008 - 02:53
Private Eye (In the Back section)

From Private Eye, a brief update on the lie detector system soon to be used across the UK on suspected 'benefit thieves'*, i.e. all claimants.  The system comes from Mossad, but what's really alarming is that it is administered by scorched-earth PFI war machine Capita.
*NB. Readers with no sympathy for 'benefit thieves' have come to the wrong website.

Outsourcing
LIE OF THE LAND

Lie–detector technology developed by Mossad for interrogating suspeted Palestinian terrorists is being used in British Jobcentres.


Mute Vol 2 #7 - Show Invisibles? Migration / Data / Work Editorial content | Vol II
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 12 February, 2008 - 15:53

Mute 2 7 coverWe are living through an intensification of citizens’, and non-citizens’, visibility to capital.

Building worker newsletter - autumn 2007 Editorial content | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Tuesday, 27 November, 2007 - 22:44
Building workers rank & file committee

Bulletin from the Building Workers Rank & File Committee on organization beyond union opportunism in an Olympically-inflated sector where 'precarity' has a literal life-and-death meaning, and employer attempts to divide and stratify labour in relation to immigration status and other questions of 'legality' (eg 'fake self-employment') is endemic.  (Also reproduced on Libcom.org and Indymedia.co.uk)


Excerpt on the invasion OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Thursday, 16 August, 2007 - 02:32
Angela Mitropoulos

This extract from an unfinished text by Angela Mitropoulos, posted on archive : s0metim3s (http://archive.blogsome.com/2007/08/07/indigenous-land/#comments), gives part of the historical background (which some European readers may have overlooked) to the current military-medical invasion of Aboriginal land in Australia's Northern Territory.  Most importantly, the text explains the concrete connection between intervention in the name of 'health' and 'ed


Creative fights OpenPublishing | POD Park
Submitted by audunmb on Saturday, 5 May, 2007 - 18:43

Creative fights: the fights for control in the imaterial production process. Precarity, creative class, imaterial rights, art and activism, digital folk culture, intellectual commons and property and

subject: Precarity


Why the subprime bust will spread OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Friday, 4 May, 2007 - 00:28
Henry C K Liu

A pertinent reminder that the so-called 'housing bubble' isn't just a matter of subprime foreclosures and repossessions: the buyers of the 'financial products' through which mortgage debt is abstracted and redivided at the outer limits of algorithmic calculation are none other than private pension funds, so that capital's 'no alternative' answer to the pseudo-problem of the 'demographic bomb' may yet manage to create a real 'pensions crisis' where none need have existed

Why the subprime bust will spread By Henry C K Liu


Super Size my pay OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Friday, 9 March, 2007 - 03:39
Toby

Official 'New Zealand' is a sporty, soporific hell-hole of 'classless' good cheer.  Fortunately successive generations of the Pacific proletariat (see also L.Goldner's Melville book and Fabian Thomsett's review of same on Metamute) refuse to learn that the colonial/class war is over.
(from Libcom: http://libcom.org/)


Embedded Adventurism Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 22 February, 2007 - 11:22
Matthew Hyland
Creative and professional class squatters are being lauded in The Financial Times as socially responsible agents of regeneration. Meanwhile, the UK’s market-driven housing crisis is making squatting more necessary and more insecure.


Prol-position 7: Callcenter in Delhi OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Tuesday, 19 December, 2006 - 22:08
Prol-position

Prol-position newsletter 7 is out now at: http://www.prol-position.net/
It contains English versions of two important texts from the summer issue of German Wildcat
on 'underclass' as ideological category and the social reality it's deployed against, plus a series of well-informed critical accounts of the anti-CPE mobilization in France earlier this year, and this piece of workers' inquiry on a Delhi call centre that employs European 'advent(o)urists' alongside aspiring members of India's currently overbooked middle class.


Too old to work for Ericsson? OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Thursday, 6 July, 2006 - 00:39
Edward

Another biopolitics update (and no, contra Foti/Dyer-Witherford there's nothing 'subversive' about it this time either).  Like many other employers, presumably, Swedish telecoms group Ericsson has decided that being 35 years old or more makes its workers useless to the dynamic, fast-moving etc etc hi-tech sector.  The difference is that Ericsson is actually trying to make them leave, using 'voluntary' redundancy packages.  (Imagine staying on in a company whose Human Resources director has effectively declared that not having grown up with a Playstation and a


Under the Beach, the Barbed Wire Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 7 February, 2006 - 14:44
Angela Mitropoulos

The 'race riots' in Cronulla at the end of last year made it clear that all is not well in Australia's multicultural paradise. Here, Angela Mitropoulos examines the racism, mechanisms of border control and changing conditions of work underneath the beach utopia



Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Monday, 9 January, 2006 - 12:54
Loren Goldner

What does ‘precarious’ struggle look like in practice? Loren Goldner gives this account of casualised workers in Paris who, combining union and extra-union, legal and illegal tactics, recently won several strikes and honourably lost another


Precarious, Precarisation, Precariat? Editorial content | Magazine
Submitted by mute on Monday, 9 January, 2006 - 12:52
The Frassanito Network

Impacts, traps and challenges of a complex term and its relationship to migration

subject: Precarity

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