Brian Marks seems to have rewritten George Caffentzis' 1980 'The Work/Energy Crisis & The Apocalypse' essay for our turbulent times, adding in a dose of fictitious capital a la David Harvey. But was/ is this analysis of (energy/capitalist) crisis accurate?

In particular the idea that the crisis imposes intensified looting (of workers) through inflation, transfering value back up to

Since the 2006 Oaxaca revolt state repression in Mexico has contributed to popular feeling that peaceful protest has failed. Today, the country is on the threshold of a cycle of armed anti-capitalist struggle, argues Mihalis Mentinis

'Green capitalism': a new paradigm of sustainable production or a license to shut down plants and print money? James Heartfield looks at the case of influential pioneer in increasing profits by cutting output, Enron

Of course companies that sell climate change solutions stand to benefit as greenhouse gas emissions come to bear a price tag.
– Daniel Esty Hillhouse, Professor of Environmental Law, Harvard University[1]

Post-Fordism’s appetite for self-directed activity is bringing about a crisis in progressive education. No longer perceived as threatening, a work force trained to think for itself has become highly desirable. So what should an emancipatory education entail today?, asks Stewart Martin

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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

ABSTRACT

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

What is radical research? Does it emanate from grass roots social movements, the universities, both, or neither? Melancholic Troglodytes review AK Press’s recent collection of ‘militant research’ with an illustrated tour following the book's line of enquiry from the ‘ivory tower to the barricades’

Professor,
take off your bicycle glasses!
I myself will expound
those times
and myself.

The anti-G8 summit demonstrations in Rostock this June had something of the atmosphere of a music festival and a detention camp — and not all the constituents of the decentralised protests were happy campers. Chris Carlsson reports back

Liberal critics assume that climate change is a ‘man-made’ process, not a natural phenomenon. Against this view, Will Barnes argues that global warming does indeed have an inhuman agent behind it – not nature but capital

Capitalist Criminality