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One World, One Lie: Tibet, the Olympics and Democracy Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 24 July, 2008 - 12:08
Paula Cerni

The fate of Tibet and its unelected superstar figurehead has captured the attention of western liberals, not to mention the US government. But the real fascination of Tibet is not its exoticism but its similarity to the rest of an undemocratic global system, argues Paula Cerni

 


'Finally Got the News' screening: reading material OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Saturday, 28 June, 2008 - 15:08
unterschreber

Finally Got the News Saturday, June 28, 8pm, £0 The Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton St, Elephant & Castle, London SE17 Rare screening of documentary (dir. Steward Bird, Rene Lichtman, Peter Gessner) on the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, from wildcat movement to formidable independent workers organization, inside and outside the auto factories of insurgent turn-of-the-'70s Detroit.


Subprime: A Different Cut Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by mute on Thursday, 12 June, 2008 - 14:47
Randy Martin

As the US subprime mortgage crisis plays out, the ‘dual morality’ of its victims' treatment becomes stark. But, Randy Martin explains, bailing-out the banks while leaving defaulters to rot is just the latest in a 30 year campaign of ripping off the American working class

 


Material Labour Editorial content |
Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 22 April, 2008 - 11:38
Material Labour

Image: Material Labour: Richard Barbrook at Alex Veness' studio, Material Labour: Richard Barbrook at Alex Veness' studio, London, England, 2006 and the Unisphere by Alex Veness for Imaginary Futures,


US protests against foreclosure evictions OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by anthony on Thursday, 31 January, 2008 - 20:24
Various

Some US protests against sub-prime evictions in text and pictures


Be careful what you wish for, China may grant it OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by unterschreber on Thursday, 21 June, 2007 - 22:16
Julian Delasantellis

This Asia Times Online (www.atimes.com) piece reads the recent bond yields panic back through the contradictions of the informal 'Bretton Woods 2' system (under which China funds the US deficits and props up the dollar by spending export proceeds on the accumulation of a trillion or so dollars worth of US Treasury bonds, i.e.


A conversation with Peter Linebaugh OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Friday, 16 March, 2007 - 02:25
Tao Ruspoli / Peter Linebaugh

The Counterpunch video interview with Peter Linebaugh is at:
http://www.counterpunch.org/ruspoli03142007.html


World liquidity crisis emerging OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Thursday, 15 March, 2007 - 13:14
Chris Laird

Further to the dominant theme of the last couple of weeks...
(from Prudent Bear: http://www.prudentbear.com/)


The Pottinger settlement OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 13 January, 2007 - 06:21
Robert Neuwirth / Takebacktheland

Robert Neuwirth's urgently necessary 'Squattercity' draws attention to the Takebacktheland occupation in Miami, where on the site of a demolished block of cheap apartments the homeless are building and defending the housing that the 'market' and the state will never provide.  As Neuwirth suggests, imagine if this supposedly 'third world' phenomenon were to spread to New Orleans and...and...
http://squattercity.blogspot.com/

Thursday, January 04, 2007

The Pottinger Settlement


A walk in Oaxaca Editorial content | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 13 January, 2007 - 06:03
Peter Linebaugh

Just what it says in the title: Peter Linebaugh and companions take a walk in Oaxaca in the aftermath of the state's bloody suppression of indigenous counter-power that may actually have posed a threat. 

From Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/linebaugh01102007.html


January 10, 2007

A Twelfth Night Tale

A Walk in Oaxaca

By PETER LINEBAUGH


Mexico's surreal elections: anatomy of a fraud foretold OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 8 July, 2006 - 01:11
John Ross

Description of the Mexican election circus elaborately suspended by rusty chains and pulleys over the class confrontation summarized by the same author a few days ago (see: Mexico, there's a riot going on, also from 'Counterpunch', posted here last week).  Inasmuch as it documents plain facts of fraud whose 'exposure' seems likely to change precisely nothing, perhaps the text can be read as a sort of funeral sermon for the faith in representative democracy recently renewed on Latin America's behalf by Western leftist well-wishers.


Mexico on the brink: there's a riot going on OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Sunday, 2 July, 2006 - 03:04
John Ross

Overview of the exceptional extent and intensity of class confrontation going on in Mexico beneath the election circus.  From Counterpunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/ross07012006.html

'Mexico on the Brink : there's a riot going on'

By JOHN ROSS

Mexico City, Mexico.


Gutting New Orleans OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Sunday, 2 July, 2006 - 02:07
Bill Quigley

Further New Orleans coverage, with terrible details of 'disaster-management' as class warfare, as described by George Caffentzis in the current Mute.  The foulest particulars make clear that what's going on there isn't just capitalist opportunism or enforcement 'excess': the militarized looting of the mainly black, working class city is a concentrated instance of the same kind of renewed enclosure that's going on around you right where you are now.  So, in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis, 5,000 apartments are boarded up waiting for demolition for priv


CDC to women: prepare to give birth! Editorial content | News & Analysis
Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 10 June, 2006 - 17:27
Sunsara Taylor

URGENT BIOPOWER UPDATE, not in the dubious, never-defined sense of 'biopolitical struggle', but in its everyday, concrete meaning.  That is, institutions directly claiming administrative sovereignty over masses of human life-matter, with absolute priority over any subjective impulses from the flesh in question.  And of course it's not just any institutions or any flesh: US medical authorities are demanding that the medical system intervene to maintain ALL women's childbearing capacity regardless of those women's own wishes.  In the bluntest practical terms, t


Fighting the Theft of New Orleans The Rhythm of Resistance OpenPublishing | News & Analysis
Submitted by Ben on Monday, 30 January, 2006 - 17:19
Glen Ford and Peter Gamble

I wrote a brief intro to this (excellent) article but it turned out quite long so im
going to paste it below the article. I can't help relating New Orleans back to
regenicide in Hackney East London, something I'm more familiar with. The
scale is different of course, but the common features striking: state-corporate
deployed emergency as tool for mass expropriation of poor (black) people;
primitive accumulation (of former public property) on an industrial scale;
(one-way) consultation at gunpoint; liquidity and displacement; and finally


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