On the pretext of a child sexual abuse crisis in Australia’s Northern Territory the Howard government passed emergency legislation and prepared a land invasion of aboriginal areas by police, doctors and the army. Elizabeth Povinelli locates this latest state of exception in a wider neoliberal project to impose work and austerity. Images and text box by Benedict Seymour

Loren Goldner will be giving a talk on the subject of the Korean working class at Housmans bookstore in Kings Cross, London at 6pm on Saturday 19th of January.

More details: http://www.metamute.org/en/Three-Talks-by-Loren-Goldner

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Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen on the struggles of 2007 in Denmark, the attempt to split the movement, the abyss between the streets and the shop floor, and the (false) problem of violence

The current tube strike in London demands guarantees that the insolvent Private Public Partnership (PPP) Metronet will not seek to cover its losses at the expense of labour. Unterschreber unravels the matrix of blame

Originally in Report on Positivity: A budding India-U.S. strategic partnership takes shape as India expands its military capacity. The Bay of Bengal will soon be witness to the largest joint naval exercises between India and the U.S. Three aircraft carriers will participate in the war games, two from the U.S., and one from India. A total of 17 warships, 13 of them from the U.S., will join India’s in an annual exercise taking place from 4-9 September. Two will come from Japan, one from Australia, and one from Singapore. They will be accompanied by submarines and dozens of naval warplanes. (1)

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OK this is hardly a scoop – even Fidel Castro has got his two contraband cents' worth in – but the basic Green agenda of making the poor pay (more) for their own reproduction could hardly be better illustrated than by exponential basic food price inflation caused by transfer of essential agriculture to biofuel production.  Environmentalism and 'neoliberal' capital are not strange bedfellows: they were joined at the pinhead from birth, as their shared hallucination of Scarcity goes to show.