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“We didn’t know it was impossible, so we did it!” The Quebec Student Strike celebrates its 100th day

http://occupytheory.org/read/we-didn-t-know-it-was-impossible-so-we-did-it-the-quebec-student-strike-celebrates-its-100th-day.html Malav Kanuga Origins of an unlimited general strike (“grève générale illimitée”) Students in Quebec are marking their 100th day of an unlimited general strike on Tuesday, May 22nd, the culmination of the most stunning mass protest movements of recent months and North America’s largest student movement in years. In fact, the mobilizations in Quebec [...]

That free-thinking even-handed paper of record

Even handed as always, the Guardian media ads pages today carries two ‘provocative’ ads for Torturer and Abuser. Ironic ‘sick joke’ ads that eventually ask us to log on to the website for the rehabilitation NGO Freedom from Torture. So far so transparent, a senior human rights abuser is needed for ‘A militia group in [...]

May Day London 2012

MAYDAY-FLYER-A5-2012 May Day has been celebrated in London since the 1880s. The Committee has ensured this key day of international solidarity is marked every May 1st. Despite often being ignored by the mass media, the celebrations have maintained the traditions of unity and solidarity in London. The London May Day has been a unique bringing [...]

Social Fabric Symposium 10.3.2012

Social Fabric symposium Discussions, talks and performances around textile production from guest speakers including trade unionists, artists and academics Mill label, 1930s, courtesy of Jyotindra Jain and Mr. Abhishek Poddar How do textiles affect the way we think about art, society and politics? The Social Fabric symposium invites contemporary artists, art historians, curators and cultural theorists [...]

Repost: ‘Jodi Dean reads The Student Handjob’

Jodi Dean reads The Student Handjob JANUARY 10, 2012 ‘Just received a couple of intriguing Minor Compositions books from the excellent Stevphen Shukaitis. Hope to read 19  & 20 Notes for a New Social Protagonism (as well another Minor Compositions book I recently got, Ben Noys’ Communization and Its Discontents) soon. Did have a chance to read (well, skim) Undressing [...]

Gotcha moment for Cameron

# The manner of Gaddafi’s death is obscene. The associated reprisals exceed comprehension. This was to defend Misrata – here – with a No Fly zone. Nothing had flown for quite some time. Enboldened, Cameron is also now poised for harsh responses in the all too civil war that is domestic politics. Shame – the [...]

Internationalise all areas #occupylsx #occupywallst

- The Internationale in many versions: – with Mao: http://youtu.be/E_HHewcDmkU   Comment: Internationalise all areas – The Internationale–Red Army Choir and Orchestra, High Quality Stereo Version! ‎”The Internationale” performed by the Red Army Choir and Orchestra. Rousing high quality stereo version! As you listen to this inspiring song, remember those… http://youtu.be/4tDNefrtJrg – The Internationale” conducted by Arturo Toscanini–originally BANNED [...]

Statement from #occupylsx

What appears to be the first statement from the London Occupation… is indeed a bit anti-theory – which I agree is strange because it comes out of a group sitting around thinking about what to do – and the demands are only an initial and somewhat abstract step towards building an alternative – yes, actually, [...]

American Spring: ‘First we take Manhattan’

There are a couple of very interesting observations in the Lenin’s Tomb commentary upon the Occupy Wall Street circus (a circus yes, with the cops as clowns, dark knights of corporate order, threatening mayhem if you walk on a road). I am particularly interested in the critique LT offers of the ‘list of demands’ that [...]

Shopping Žižek – a commentary on a commentary (an addendum to ✪ 11 more notes 12&3 on #LondonRiots etc)

Slavoj Žižek’s commentary on the #LondonRiots indented, with my intemperate interjections interspersed in smaller italics (not indented). i – i – i – i. What I have done is copied the entire text from his LRB article (available free) and entered that here, in original order, nothing excised, so I could then add my own commentary, in italics, between [...]

Re-post: review of Where there is Light, 2004

Since today in Bradford there is the 30 years commemoration of the struggles around the case of the Bradford 12, and next saturday (23rd July 2011) a similar event in London (see here), I repost this review of ‘Where there is Light’, a novel by one of the perpetrators – an appreciation of the quietly [...]

I do hope calling for Regime Change on Danish radio is treason!

Along with some eloquent comrades, this, for Danish listeners (English snippets) is a just broadcast interview about the current conjuncture, cuts, coalition shenanigans and possibilities for regime change in the UK… Download the pod-cast here. The first 12 minutes are Lara, Nina and I. Britisk protestbevægelse Europa lige nu 03. april 2011 kl. 17:10 på P1 Seneste udsendelse (48:42) En studerende [...]

STW: 10 Reasons to say no to western intervention in Libya

By Andrew Murray National Chair, Stop the War Coalition 14 March 2011 The political campaign to launch a military intervention in Libya – ostensibly on humanitarian grounds but with patently political ends in sight – is gathering steam among the NATO powers. A “no-fly zone” has now been urged by the Arab League – for the [...]

Bradley Manning

SUNDAY March 20th. 2pm *U.S. Embassy/London- Join Us to Demand they “Stop Torturing Bradley Manning! WHY? To demand the end of the torture pf Bradley Manning in Quantico U.S. Marine Base, Virginia USA. Although 23 year old Bradley Manning is a U.S. Army intelligence officer he is being held without explanation in the largest U.S. [...]

Jasmine

Could someone elaborate on why this term jasmine revolution keeps coming up? I’m genuinely unsure what it means. It is near invisible in the UK, or at least to me, but comrades in Europe have been using it with regularity.. It refers also to China then? That is completely off screen here in the UK right now. [...]

here and there: our leaders in the East

Angela Merkel in Saudi, Blair with Gadaffi, Obama with Mubarak, Cameron in Kuwait… presenting these pictures is also not without a certain exotica, but it tells a story that I think should be up front and centre – the uprisings in the Middle East are not just those people ‘over there’ struggling against ‘their’ despots, [...]

Sunshine (for Mick)

Above: the banner of proletarian internationalism

Release Assange

RELEASE ASSANGE – Letter to the Australian High Commissioner London to be delivered Mon D13 (original location here) Australians in UK for Immediate Release of Julian Assange, 12.12.2010 17:07 *If you are an Australian based in UK, or presently travelling through, and wish to sign this letter. Make contact through…..releasejulianassange at gmail.com Ph.079 392 90 576 [...]

Will pre course massive expansion be funded?

I haven’t been involved in this venture to offer year long fee paying access courses to potential international students. But still I am concerned as to how we can do this at Goldsmiths, how anyone could afford it, and when we would make our ‘expected’ contribution (course offerings and the like). CCS already works at [...]