New Student Protest in Quebec on Monday February 25th.

A photo of the Ministry of Education in Quebec, with an orange splash!

The students in Quebec seems to be under attack and the seemingly victory has to be fought for again. The minister of higher education now rejects to

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How to distinguish a neoliberal

Distinguishing neoliberals; by Augustine Zenakos, Unfollow Magazine .

‘Neoliberalism’ is an odd term. It is being assigned, not assumed. Nobody says “I’m a neoliberal”. And in case we characterize someone’s words or actions as ‘neoliberal’, we undoubtedly attach a demeaning …

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Nihilism and the Left – by prof. Nicolas Sevastakis

(Image by Cliffort Harper)

In the article below, Nicolas Sevastakis, a political thinker, writer and professor at the Political Science Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, is analyzing terrorist activity in the form that it appears in Greece lately. Sevastakis …

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The Julian Assange Show: Noam Chomsky & Tariq Ali

A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West’s structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That’s the modern world in the eyes of Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, two prominent thinkers and this week’s guests on Julian Assange’s …

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Commons 2012 – Radical Squares 2 – George Caffentzis

  1. George Caffentzis speaks on the Radical Squares: Reflections on the Global Indignant Moment panel at the Tragedy of the Market: from Crisis to Commons conference in January  2012 in Burnaby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZQYghm22wg
  2. George Caffentzis (Strike Debt) teach-in at the Free University
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The debt crisis, Africa and the new enclosures – Silvia Federici

That the debt crisis is a productive crisis for capital is nowhere as visible as in Africa. For the policies the debt crisis has generated have served to “rationalize” class relations, and to tackle the most vexed question of capitalist …

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"New Normal"? On bankers' communication attempts to normalize misery

The latest Danske Bank’s communication strategy is full of images of unrest; the Occupy movement, protestors with stones and Greek flags against the police, images of slave workers in the world’s production lines, pictures of despaired citizens from across the …

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Saying ‘We’ Again: A Conversation with Jodi Dean on Democracy, Occupy and Communism

By Thomas Biebricher & Robin Celikates

Jodi Dean teaches polit­ical and media the­ory in Geneva, New York. She has writ­ten or edited eleven books, includ­ing Demo­cracy and Other Neo­lib­eral Fantas­ies and most recently The Com­mun­ist Hori­zon (Verso, Octo­ber 2012).

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