The return of struggles against wage-slavery in the US makes for some strange alliances, and introduces an entire generation to the inspirational education of the extended strike. Wisconsin and the ‘bad surprise’` Many predicted that the financial crisis beginning in 2007 constituted the end of the neoliberal phase of capitalism in the US. The trajectory […]
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Too Much News In The World? Lets Make Some More!
Latest News | Alternative Futures Group We all cross swords on what we’re fighting against, but what do we want to rally for? This is an invitation to counter the ‘news’ of the now with forecasts for alternative futures. If only this rally were not just today, and not just from here to there – […]
The Marquis de Sade in London
FRANCESCO SALVINI & VITTORIO BINI – Marquis de Sade I am exactly what you see – the mask proclaims – and everything you fear is behind. / Elias Canetti On this island, when you deal with politics, first of all you deal with rules, absolute rules. It looks like rules were there before everything else. […]
Strike Together, March Together
Strike action The 10 November demonstration kick-started the biggest student revolt since the late 1960s. It also inspired the Universities and Colleges Union to ballot for strike action over jobs, pay and pensions. Mark Bergfeld from the Education Activist Network reports on the strike. At first sight, the UCU strike may have seemed very ‘economistic’ […]
Research Project
SASKIA FISCHER Okay, I’m ready for part two. No. No wait. Let me get myself a drink, if I can find anything. Can’t drink the water here, it’s poison. So it’s the little pink or purple freckly potions instead. ‘Less your slick enough to get your hands on a bottle of the real thing. Think […]
Re:Generation
Free Associations to Generation This is an edited extract from Moments of Excess, a Free Association anthology published by PM Press. There’s a great clip on YouTube (http://tinyurl.com/lubwkq). A young man at a festival is performing a crazy freak-out, oblivious to anyone and anything apart from the music. After a while he’s joined by another […]
Lines in the campus sand: lecturers across picket lines
Crossing a Picket Lines In Edition Zero of The Paper, Morten Paul asked ‘what do academics do, when they go on strike?’. The answer offered by one of his professors was that ‘they use the time to work on their research’. The answer offered by other academics, it seems, is that they cross picket lines, […]
Letters
Letters: Your letters to the newspaper Letters and news from down the road and across the water made its way to us this month. – I don’t know who this Dave Riddle character thinks he is, but he seems blissfully unaware of his reproduction of neo-liberal ideology in his naive defense of post-Keynesian ‘workfare’ social […]
In the Bosom of Fear
BUE RÜBNER HANSEN Fear can be quite a warm and comfortable place to be. It might not seem like it when we fear arrest in the kettle, when we fear losing our job or fear being snubbed by a stranger when we ask for the time. But it can be a safe haven compared to […]
Fear that Stops Thinking
Fear-Les Back The Germans were over this house last night and the night before that. Here they are again. It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet, which may at any moment sting you to death. It is a sound that interrupts cool and consecutive thinking […]