Back to the Future: Rebranding Social Democracy
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 12 2018 12:43
There are two ways to read Inventing the Future. One is a fairly innocent critique of the “post-68 left”, and an outline of how to build a desirable post-capitalist future through a flawed Gramscian framework. The other is a critique of working class self-activity, and a call for a benevolent class of technocrats who can gradually reform capitalism for the masses.
Containing the Crisis: A History of Mass Incarceration and Rebellion in the Rustbelt
A text from Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity. "To understand the 2016 Kinross Rebellion, and to build a stronger movement of resistance to state violence, we must look at the history of the rise of mass incarceration in the Rustbelt region and analyze the specific reasons for this growth of State control and repression."
Open Letter From a Writer to the Military Junta - Rodolfo Walsh
On the one year anniversary of the military Junta of Argentina coming to power underground Jounalist Rudolfo Walsh wrote an open letter denouncing the regime and listing its crimes.
No whites allowed after 8pm? Behind the media circus of Birmingham’s ‘no-go’ areas
Submitted by QQ on Aug 23 2017 14:23
On 17 August, numerous national newspapers and news websites, published a story about “racist graffiti” directed towards white people in Saltley, a majority Pakistani area of inner-city Birmingham. The piece, originally published by the local Birmingham press, goes on to claim that this corroborates a broad trend of “white working class Brummies” fearing parts of the city had become “no-go areas” for them.
Music is stagnating, are neoliberalism and the gig economy to blame?
Submitted by Soapy on Jul 16 2017 15:55
Progress in music is slowing down, a look at how neoliberalism and developments in music production and distribution may be to blame
In the Country of Dijsselbloem - Labor Relations in the Netherlands
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Jul 14 2017 13:15
Describtion of labour relations, state-induced attacks on 'social wage', 2017 elections and formation of a new governement in the Netherlands. From a council communist view, developed by Arbeidersstemmen (Workers' Voices).
Lovable Anarchism: Campus Protest in Japan From the 1990s to Today
A paper documenting several examples of recent protests by students and university employees on campuses in Japan following a period of privatisations and a move towards short term contracts.
The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awful Toll
An economic appraisal of the early years of the Junta in Chile and the failures of the Chicago School economists in charge of the nation.
2017: how we got here and how liberalism failed us
An overview of how the events of the past 25 years have lead us to the situation we now find ourselves in.
Thoughts on Mark Fisher and the “slow cancellation of the future”
Submitted by Soapy on Mar 15 2017 00:51
Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Past shows the world through Fisher’s eyes, a beautifully depressing elegy for cultural progress and passion in a world dominated by cheap stimulation and the marketplace
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