The Silent Death of the Left
This is a short essay from Counterpunch about the current death of the Left. The main arguments are about the…
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Seattle Teachers, Students Win Historic Victory Over Standardized Testing
After months of protest, teachers, students and parents in Seattle, Washington, have won their campaign to reject standardized tests in…
Company profits depend on the ‘welfare payments’ they get from society
An article by economist Ha-Joon Chang in the Guardian in which he notes that “It is time that we dispensed…
Call for solidarity with hunger and thirst strikers
About 60 asylum seekers in detention center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, have been in hunger strike for four days now.…
Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
This is a transcript of a 1972 conversation between the post-structuralist philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, which discusses the…
1 of may: The story of May Day
“THERE WILL be a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.” Those were…
The Terror of Capitalism
On Wednesday, April 24, a day after Bangladeshi authorities asked the owners to evacuate their garment factory that employed almost…
The economic consequences of student debt
Doug Henwood explains economic consequences of student debt in the United States. Could we could start seeing a similar trend…
Crisis at the VU University Amsterdam: another symptom of ‘marketization’
Over the last 1.5 years, the VU University Amsterdam has been embroiled in a battle against severe budgetary cuts. The…
To the Dogs: Companion speciesism and the new feminist materialism
By Manuela Rossini , Kritikos V.3 September 2006. Introduction: Matter Matters Feminist productions in the fields of literary, cultural…