Strategy & Planning – University of Leeds As the cuts in higher education start to be felt, PhD students in the School of Geography, University of Leeds are making plans and getting organised. Hourly paid postgraduate teaching assistants at the School of Geography, University of Leeds, have been informed that that their wages are to […]
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Libya’s Lost Promise
The announcement of new US sanctions repeats a tragic scenario all too familiar, the second time as farce Muammar Al-Qaddafi’s Libya When Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi overthrew King Idris in 1969, Libyans heaved a sigh of relief. Idris had sucked the oil profits of this oil-rich country for his own betterment. Little went to a population […]
We Are Political
Protestors in Tahrir Square | Hossam el-Hamalawy What is politics made of? Jodi Dean takes a look at technological determinism, affect and communicative capitalism. Networked cultures and social media are embedded in communicative capitalism, a form of capitalism where communication itself is a productive force. Our words and energies, our opinions and critiques, provide media […]
The Shoplifter’s Conundrum: Musings on a (non) scandal
The University of Strategic Optimism – Shoplifting News If we accept this idea, that the revolutionary enterprise of a man or of a people originates in their poetic genius…we must reject nothing of what makes poetic exhalation possible. If certain details of this work seem immoral to you, it is because the work as a […]
The question of Childcare
Tips for a Successful Parent Interview – ChildCare We put our son down on the waiting list for the nearest nursery when he was two weeks old, because we had been warned that there were long waiting lists. I was due to start back part-time at my old job after Christmas when my son turned […]
The Plebs League
The Plebs Magazine Britain’s Plebs Magazine was established in 1909 and connected students at the Ruskin School (Oxford) with a vast network of affiliated worker self-education groups across the UK. The Plebs Magazine and its associated pamphlets were generated through collective readings, discussion, and analysis of texts and social circumstances. Adult education reading groups developed […]
Student Strikes at the University of Puerto Rico, 2010-2011
University of Puerto Rico Student Strike On 21 April 2010 – 200 students at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) achieved what few other student coalitions have in the past couple of years: transforming what began as a 48-hour campus occupation into a full-fledged, sustained, system-wide strike, thus forestalling the conservative economic and social designs […]
Report from Paris – Saint-Denis Meeting, 11-13 February 2011
COMMON STATEMENT We, the student and precarious workers of Europe, Tunisia, Japan, the US, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Argentina, met in Paris over the weekend of the 11th-13th February, 2011 to discuss and organise a common network based on our common struggles. Students from Maghreb and Gambia tried to come but France refused them […]
Post-fordist protest
University professors march on Tahrir Square | Hossam el-Hamalawy Post-fordist protest What do academics do, when they go on strike?” our professor asked during one of the many discussions last autumn, only to give the answer immediately “They use the additional time to work on their research”. His question was intended to encourage a more […]
Loveable and Capable
Loveable and Capable training Compulsory voluntary work is set to becomes a permanent fixture in our welfare system. Dave Riddle gives a first hand account of being put in place(ment). I have been referred to Working Links, my local (part private, part government- funded) “employment provider”. I am expected to attend from 9:30am until 4pm, […]