Can the euro be saved? Not long ago we were told that the worst possible outcome was a Greek default. Now a much wider disaster seems all too likely.
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Post-Anarchism: A Reader
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What do Michel Foucault and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have in common? What political lessons can we extract from the direct action experiences of the last years? How can we deconstruct the assumptions behind common words and build new meanings, … |
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The illegitimacy of demands (Demetra Kotouza, Mute)
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With demands over the wage and welfare in austerity Greece deemed illegitimate because unaffordable, what shape can struggle take? Demetra Kotouza sees the all-out attack on living standards as producing a de facto opposition that can’t be cohered by ideologies … |
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Foreign investors speculate on Danish bankruptcy (Jennifer Buley)
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December 12, 2011 – 14:56 An American hedge fund is placing bets that Denmark is headed for an Iceland- or Ireland-style economic collapse. The New … |
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Crisis of Capitalism
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Is it time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane? (RSA Animate – David Harvey)
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Less healthcare, but Greece is still buying guns (Roxane McMeeken)
Greeks furious at ‘intact’ arms spending as eurozone leaders insist on cuts to their public servicesRoxane McMeeken
Athens Sunday 06 November 2011 As Greece is forced by European leaders to abandon a referendum to allow the people the chance |
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Europe's revolution from above (Étienne Balibar)
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Europe’s revolution from aboveWednesday 23 November 2011 The EU’s new technostructures are embarking on a strategy to protect the euro that could fundamentally change its institutions The Franco-German ‘directorate’: Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images
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Manifesto of the appalled economists
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6/8/2010
Click here for the french version Click here for the web site of the appalled economists First signatories : Philippe Askenazy (CNRS) ; Thomas Coutrot (scientific council of ATTAC) ; André Orléan (CNRS, EHESS, president of the French Association |
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The new spirit of capitalism (Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello, 2005)
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Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of anticapitalist critique by exploring its very roots. Via an unprecedented analysis … |
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The Making and Unmaking of the Precariat (Loïc Wacquant)
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Loïc Wacquant, University of California Berkeley In the second part of the lecture, Loïc Wacquant sketches his analysis about the formation of the neoliberal state on the whiteboard.
http://www.rosalux.de/class-in-crisis/class-in-crisis-freitag/the-making-and-unmaking-of-the-precariat.html… |
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