Modern Greek nation: another moment of the founding myth’s collapse
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If the nation is primarily constituted around a spiritual principle as Renan argues, then Greece today finds itself in a quandary. If the nation bares a common past and ascribes in it a temporal consent that has to be indeterminately … |
Articles from the late Eric Hobsbawm
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The work of the great Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who recently passed away at the age of 95, can be traced through some articles provided here : http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/past/hobsbawm.html… |
Athens: Third antifascist motorcycle demo clashed with neo-Nazis; police attacked the demo in retaliation
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Anarchist banner in Kamara, Thessaloniki: “Solidarity with the arrestees of the antifascist motorcycle demo – Athens – Evelpidon courts, 4/10”
The night of September 15th saw the first motorcycle patrol through Athens centre with flypostering and protest chants against neo-Nazi … |
The Milgram Experiment
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In 1962, at the Yale University, they run a series of experiments trying to better understand the relation between obedience and authority. The results are as much common sense as they are disturbing. Maybe because we all knew it… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpGJjNUbmpo… |
Occupying Language: To Walk Asking Questions
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This is the theme of a fascinating new book, Occupying Language, by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini in the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series. The authors situate the present Occupy movement in the context of the insurgent movements in Latin … |
Tariq Ali & Slavoj Žižek: The Crisis of Europe /// Subversive festival, Zagreb, 13/05/2012
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The opening of the 5th Subversive festival, and the first round table with Slavoj Žižek and Tariq Ali talking about the crisis in Europe, moderated by Srećko Horvat. A very interesting talk, analysing the economic crisis from economic, political, social … |
Occupy 2.0: Strike Debt, by Asra Taylor (The Nation)
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When Occupy Wall Street sprang up a year ago, one of its most captivating features was that it was one big tent, an overarching idea linking together a long-fragmented left. Today, bereft of the encampments—all the little tents—there’s no denying … |
The Rise and Rise of Greece’s Neo-Nazis (New Left Project)
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As summer draws to a close in Greece, the latest opinion poll shows falling support for every party in Parliament. Except one that is – the neo-nazi Golden Dawn. From 6.9% in June’s legislative election, a Pulse poll for Pontiki … |
Community struggles against gold mines in Northern Greece, documentary, English subtitles
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A documentary describing people’s struggles against the destruction of their communities, and their land, by the mining activity of gold mining multinational companies during the 1990’s. Though those struggles were victorious and the people managed to kick the multinationals out … |
