occupation and property damage Complicity, Duplicity, Monstrosity, Let me count the ways. A numerate response to the apparitions of neo-liberal confinement. 1. The violence comes in waves of shock, panic and terror. As the waves crash, outrage emerges as the universal emotional condition: so commonplace as to become another affliction like an obsession with the […]
Europe
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 […]
Dangerous Alliances: Class and the Student Movement
Federico Campagna – Student Movement Recently, I have been asked several times by Italian friends and comrades to talk about the British student movement. I must confess that their questions always made me feel slightly embarrassed. At first, I tried to forget about this uncomfortable feeling, talking about the rise of a new civic participation, […]
Valentines in Paris
Edu-factory Speed Dating for Student Movements, Paris, 11 – 13 February If you’re lucky enough to be planning Valentine’s Day in Paris with someone you love, you’re not likely to come away disappointed. The city of light seems to be synonymous with romance, so finding things to do for this special occasion shouldn’t prove too […]
Ecole Moderne
The Ecole Moderne, an international movement Elise and Celestin Freinet were communist educators active in France from the 1920s. Under the name Ecole Moderne, they and hundreds of students and educators across Europe produced a network of schools, each of which collectively owned and operated its own printing press. Under Ecole Moderne Students and teachers […]