The Reality Behind the Greek 'Success Story'
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by Julie Tomlin During over four years of economic crisis, many Greek people seem to have developed a keen sense of farce. The appearance of Greece’s health minister Adonis Georgiadis at an Imperial College London event titled “Turning the tide: … |
Coup in Ukraine: A warning to the international working class
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The recent events in Ukraine are a warning to the international working class. Under conditions in which workers lack both a perspective and a party to enable them to intervene independently in political events, the situation in Ukraine has developed … |
25 Horrifying Images of the "Free" Market at Work
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By Alternet When economists talk about how a market “regulates itself,” what they mean is that markets reach an equilibrium between supply and demand. This says nothing about whether or not this equilibrium will be a good thing for society. … |
From the State of Control to a Praxis of Destituent Power
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By Giorgio Agamben On February 4, 2014 This is the transcript of a public lecture by Italian … |
If Nelson Mandela really had won, he wouldn't be seen as a universal hero
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by Slavoj Žižek, theguardian.com, Monday 9 December 2013 10.05 GMT In the last two decades of his life, Nelson Mandela was celebrated as a model of how to liberate a country from the colonial yoke without succumbing to the temptation … |
German grand coalition to intensify austerity policies in Europe
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An important political lesson must be drawn from the coalition agreement struck after two months of negotiations between Germany’s conservative parties (the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union) and the Social Democratic Party: It is impossible for working … |
How economic growth has become anti-life
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An obsession with growth has eclipsed our concern for sustainability, justice and human dignity. But people are not disposable – the value of life lies outside economic development By Vandana Shiva Limitless growth … |
Ruins – A documentary about the persecution of women positive to HIV in today's Greece
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Α documentary about the criminalization of HIV in crisis-Greece. The story of a group of HIV-positive women who were detained by the Greek Police, forcibly tested, charged with a felony, imprisoned and publicly exposed, when their mug shots and personal … |
Slavoj Žižek on The Act of Killing and the modern trend of “privatising public space”
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Source: NewStatesman
The documentary film “The Act of Killing” asks Indonesian death-squad leaders to re-enact their crimes for the camera. They boast openly about their massacres as we observe the real effects of living a fiction. The documentary The … |
