We Are Not Afraid
Persecution by the state keeps people on edge, which is one of the reasons people are so afraid to speak out. The fact that some are doing so now is really remarkable.”
2015
On the Syrian Tourism Boom in Lebanon
Much needed, myth-exploding context from the region, essential to understanding the Syrian refugee crisis
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Abolishing Work (1982)
Under the conditions of capitalist production, the labor movement’s moralistic program can only be applied to work that is regarded as work by society.
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Reinventing Digital Media
“There’s so much that could be done that’s more unconventional.”
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Resisting Left Melancholy
“Heaviness of heart derives from routine. For to be in a routine means to have sacrificed one’s idiosyncrasies, to have forfeited the gift of distaste. And that makes one heavy-hearted.”
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A Glimpse into the Jungle: IWS Report from Calais
These are brave people who will not give up no matter how many pounds or euros are invested in fences, police forces or in European racist regimes. The refugees are slowly changing the world as we know it.
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Neoliberalism’s Fatal Faith in Debt Fiction
“When Smith and Mill and the classical economists talked about ‘free’ markets, they meant an economy free of rent, free of interest, free of parasitism. Today in the United States, the whole idea is that a free market is free for the parasites.”
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Lebanon: What’s Feminism Got to Do with It?
“Feminist analysis is not secondary or parallel to other demands, but is at the heart of understanding the patriarchal practices of the violent state.”
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Iran: Workers Movement Statement on the Death in Custody of Shahrokh Zamani
This untimely death will naturally appear suspicious to any unbiased person. But even without any such suspicions, the conditions in prisons – especially for worker activists and political prisoners – are already murderous enough, for a thousand and one reasons.
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Reinterpreting the Chinese Capital “Scramble” in Africa
“Africa is not just this blank slate and these big companies are coming in and buying up land and kicking out people. There are politics going on.”
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