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Some Various Tidbits on #GE2015
I was present at the Brixton Recreation Center earlier tonight, where vote counting was going — and continues to go — on. Workers there are paid a standard rate that is independent of how long they spend counting votes, and … Continue reading
Posted in Bourgeois politics, Critique of the Left, Politics
Tagged british election, Cameron, Conservative, election 2015, Labour, Miliband, Tory
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America’s Palestinians: Lessons from The American Indian Experience for Israel-Palestine
Israel is often and repeatedly compared with South Africa, and a quick search on the Internet and in newspapers of the debate on the Occupied Territories, on UN Security Council resolutions condemning and calling and end to the occupation, and … Continue reading
Posted in Geopolitics, History, Parable, Politics
Tagged American Indian, Colonialism, Israel, Middle East, Native American, Occupied Territories, Palestine, PLO
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Spain is not Greece, or is it? Electoral prospects for the left in 2015.
After the electoral victory of SYRIZA in Greece, the attention of the European left has justly focused on its enormous difficulties in tackling a very unfavourable international conjuncture, as well as the very promising opportunities it opens up. It’s undeniable … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
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SYRIZA and Memnosyne
Lyndon Johnson observed that Greece was “the Vietnam of the 1940s.” He was referring, of course, to the “civil war” – i.e: the suppression of the Left- that followed the German occupation- the time when the Aegean became an archipelago … Continue reading
Posted in History, Parable, Politics
Tagged European left, Greece, Greek elections, Syriza
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“It’s boring but necessary”: An Interview with Jos Alembic (aka “Q”) on Changing Dutch Political Discourse
I recently had a discussion with Q, a member and founder of Marxist Center and the Communist Platform, a political lobbying organization in the Netherlands that seeks to inject a more traditional class-oriented slant into the national political discourse, with … Continue reading
Posted in Critique of the Left, Politics, Proletarian politics
Tagged Dutch polititics, Marxist Center, socialism
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Why autonomists make good journalists
Much loathed and admired within the leftist community, autonomists represent a small but mixed bunch. With their focus on the daily, small-scale class struggle, their squats and auto-reduction, and their sometimes incomprehensible jargon they elicit both fascination and contempt from … Continue reading
Posted in Critique of the Left, Culture, Politics, Proletarian politics, Uncategorized
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Building Revolution — Article from the ‘United Irishman’, May 1971
During the 1960s and 1970s, the Irish Republican Movement evolved from a conventional nationalist project with a strategic emphasis – if not obsession – with militarism to an explicitly socialist project which placed a premium on mass politics. That evolution … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
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The Many Prongs That Lead to Ferguson
There are a number of strands that can be picked up from the recent, much-publicized events in Ferguson, Mo. Ferguson is a suburb on the innermost ring of St. Louis’s quite extensive “fat belt”, a European term for the series … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural analysis, Culture, History, Politics
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“Tax is the Lifeblood of Democracy”: An Interview with John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network
Recently, I sat down to talk with John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network, to talk about his organisation and what it does. Topics as wide ranging as state subsidies of corporations and the role of the OECD as “a … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics
Tagged democracy, development, economic justice, human rights, inequality, justice, tax havens, tax justice
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Catholic Marxism
At first glance Marxism and Catholicism have little in common: one is thoroughly materialist in outlook, the other a prime defender of idealism. Whereas Marxism is dedicated to a new social order, the Church has been intimately associated with conservative, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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Why is the left so obsessed with degeneration?
There is a specter haunting the radical left, the specter of degeneration. Okay, that might sound a bit dramatic but the left today really is scared a great deal of something called various things to various people. Whether we call … Continue reading
Posted in Critique of the Left, Politics, Uncategorized
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Critical notes on the “Manifesto of the Initiative for Democratic Socialism” (MIDS)
This is a critique of the Manifesto of the Initiative for Democratic Socialism (Slovenia) The ideological dominance of capitalism as the only feasible mode of production is coming to an end. In the second half of the 1970s, when rapid … Continue reading
Posted in Proletarian politics
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Notes on Ideology, Power, the Media and the Irish Crisis
An introduction to the study of ideological power structures and their relevance in the Irish economic crisis (Notes from a presentation to the Dublin Left Forum 10/05/2014) Introduction Since the onset of the crisis that the Irish state thus far … Continue reading
Posted in Bourgeois politics, Cultural analysis, Philosophy, Proletarian politics
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Strategy of Attrition: Part II
Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Outside of the Church there is no Salvation) In order for strategies to become more permanently established they need to be theorised. Just as the Anarchists theorised the workers councils as the vehicle of liberation, Kautsky and … Continue reading
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