Fun with David Graeber
Play is, if anything, the basis of all physical reality, it’s the ultimate natural principle. And if you think of the world that way, it’s a very different place.
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Neoliberalism and the “Davos Class”
If we understand the complexity of mechanisms by which neoliberalism maintains its power, we have to hit at many different levels that are not necessarily political, but nevertheless are instruments of power.
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Wall Street’s Latest Land Grab
We’re going to be paying our rental checks to financial institutions that collude with the big banks that orchestrated a foreclosure crisis that pushed us out of our homes and tore apart our communities in the first place.
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After the Ball, Burschenschaften Explained
In Austria, right wing extremism is having a ballby Natascha Strobl for LeftEast3 February 2014 (original post) It is a sad fact that each year right-wing student fraternities, the Burschenschaften, are allowed to hold a ball in the Hofburg palace. It has grown into a major event on the yearly calendar of the Austrian and
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The Radical Pessimist on Iran
The poorer countries of the world are getting a cold because the United States sneezed. It’s unfair and it shows how the balance of power works in the world economy, but it also shows what came out of the 2008 crisis.
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Brazil: Continuing Protests Highlight FIFA Abuses
The World Cup has turned into this monster; they’re coming into foreign countries and causing hundreds of thousands of forced evictions so that rich companies can benefit from building unnecessary stadiums.
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Iranian Refugees Begin Hunger Strike
Over seven million people from Iran have had to leave their country and seek refuge in signatory countries to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Many of them are unknown activists whose names will only become known if they are killed or sentenced to long prison terms.
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Photo Essay: Clashes in Kiev
Photographs taken over two days in Kyiv, 22 and 23 January 2014, by citizen photographer Ilya Varlamov.
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Squatting Across the Atlantic
“Nothing is more tragic than watching generation after generation trash potentially powerful movements by making the same mistakes.”
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10 Theses of the Leftist Opposition in Ukraine
Replacing one set of politicians and oligarchs with another without overall systemic changes will not improve our lives.
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