There has been a recent public outrage over anti-piracy lobbyist amendments to a European Parliament Telecom reform bill. The amendments would both implement a 'three-strikes' rule, which would cut off internet access for anyone suspected of illegal file-sharing, as well as giving government control to which internet software and services could be 'lawfully' used. On 7 July 2008, in Brussels, politicians voted in favour of the addition of these amendments to the Telecom law which will be voted on in September.

Pedro Costa's films belie both the cinematic exploitation of suffering and the documentary urge to record truth and fix recognition. Ana Balona de Oliveira sifts through the bones and ruins of Costa's Fontaínha trilogy, set in a disappearing Lisbon slum

A majority of Royal Mail workers voted today for official acceptance of the stitch-up, sorry, settlement brokered by the Communication Workers Union, ending the recent cycle of strikes against the process leading to implementation of the EU directive on (selective - i.e.

Contrary to what immaterialists and Demoradicals might tell you, manufacturing in general and the car industry in particular is expanding rather than contracting in Europe, albeit in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic rather than at Longbridge, Dagenham or Turin.   (Beverley Silver's book  Forces of labour, reviewed in the current Aufheben demonstrates that there's nothing epochal or even surprising about this kind of gradual geographical shift.)  This text, reproduced on Libcom.org, is a translation of the preface to a book of worke