Call out for Global Wave of Action for Free Education November 17th – 23rd 2013
The International Student Movement published the following call on their website: “We are calling for a Global Wave of Action…
Occupy theorists launch The Militant Research Handbook
A collaborative project seeks to redefine the place where activism and academia meet by promoting militant research in, about and…
Letter to a Syrian Friend Who Said: ‘Your Opposition to the US Attack on Syria Means You Support the Asad Regime’
I am not in favor of the gallows of Ba‘th, nor the execution chambers of Jabhat al-Nusra, neither the guns…
Free Work Versus Forced Employment
Why do you go to work? Is it because you enjoy what you do? Did you choose to work at…
David Graeber – A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse
What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by popular forces aiming to…
“8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance”
Clinical psychologist Bruce E. Levine explains how “the ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken…
Memories of the Future
Why is it, like Jameson said, that it is more “easier to imagine the end of the world than it…
Good reads during summer: “The Wretched of the Earth” (Frantz Fanon) & “Orientalism” (Edward Said)
The summer of 2013 has started. Time to read books you should have read long ago – but never got…
Turkije: leren van de beweging voor het Gezi-park
Miljoenen mensen in Turkije zijn de afgelopen weken de straten opgegaan om hun ongenoegen te uiten over de regering. Wat…
Capitalism – a short introduction
“Capitalism has only existed as the dominant economic system on the planet for a little over 200 years. Compared to…