Unrest becomes rage: Mobilisations against the crisis in Italy – friends of Wildcat Germany
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Analysis of the recent movements in Italy against austerity and education “reform” from some Italian friends of Wildcat Germany. Like many other countries in Europe and elsewhere (consider the recent confrontations in North Africa), Italy has for several months been … |
Notes on the non election of Syriza and the retreat from anti-capitalism by the left – Anarchist Writers
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The Greek election which saw the ‘bailout with even more austerity’ parties win out over the ‘austerity without bailout’ parties had a fairly minimal impact on the world’s stock markets in the end. That somewhat cruel way of describing SYRIZA … |
We Are Not Indignant, We Are Pissed Off To Our Balls
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It took a while for the Quebec student revolt to reach the Anglophone press. The same appears to be true of the Spanish miners’ strike, which is only now appearing in the UK newspapers after more than two weeks of … |
Planned Obsolescence (the lightbulb conspiracy)
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Planned obscolescence is a paradigm upon which consumer society is based. The idea of planned obscolescence is an intrinsic part of the capitalist reproduction and expansion process; it concerns the production of goods designed to become obsolete in a short … |
Save us from the saviours – Slavoj Žižek on Europe and the Greeks
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Imagine a scene from a dystopian movie that depicts our society in the near future. Uniformed guards patrol half-empty downtown streets at night, on the prowl for immigrants, criminals and vagrants. Those they find are brutalised. What seems like a … |
Greece: here come the vulture funds
Greece: here come the vulture funds19 Mayby Nick Dearden Financial ’investors’ have already made a killing on Greek debt, but this activity isn’t inevitable – such vultures can be challenged
Not everyone is unhappy about the desperate |
Who's who in Greek politics: the radicalization of the right – by Radiobubble.gr
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In the past few days, there have been so many changes, transfers, counter-transfers and mergers on the Greek political scene that it has all become a little confusing, even for experienced observers of Greek politics. While this phenomenon can be … |
9 Theses on the Golden Dawn and the Postmodern Totalitarian Capitalism Galloping Ahead – by Occupied London
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1. First of all, the struggle against the (totalitarian) nationalism-racism is a struggle against the (authoritarian) liberalization of the Nation, the State, the Market and the System of Justice and — by extension — against (totalitarian) capitalism. 2. The Golden |
No Interest But The Interest Of Breathing – by Clinical Wasteman
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This is not in any normal sense a review of David Graeber’s book, which is erudite yet non-specialist, often brilliant and always fiercely devoted to the overthrow of present social relations. The scope of Graeber’s historical, anthropological and theoretical reference … |
French and Greek voters seek a way out of austerity – Adam Ford
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The financial markets went into a petulant sulk today (may 15th. red.), in response to the election results in France – where incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy was defeated by his ‘centre-left’ challenger – and in Greece, where two thirds of the … |
