Thanks for this posting about Paul Mattick’s book. I went right to Amazon and bought it. This is an area…
Paul Mattick’s Business as Usual
Paul Mattick’s Business As Usual (Reaktion Books: London 2011) is a short, comparatively accessible attempt to explain the current economic…
The Communist Hypothesis
The Communist Hypothesis, by Alain Badiou, is worth reading in spite of its needless difficulty, attributable to Badiou’s being both…
Memories of Yemen: A Brooklyn Tale
SANA, Yemen (AP) December 28, 2011— Strikes spread through Yemen on Wednesday as workers demanded reforms and the dismissal of…
Notes on Surrealism & the Revolution of Everyday Life
by Penelope Rosemont “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue.”—Oscar Wilde ” .…
Behind the Euro Crisis
Behind the Euro Crisis: Germany Gambles on the Old Dream of European Hegemony By Richard Greeman German industrial and financial…
What Is a Paper?
The following is an email I recently got from a student, followed by my reply: Hi Noel! So I am…
New Model Army Breaks Camp
From a friend: I went to the Occupy Harvard teach-in yesterday. Terrific, almost all about economics and the economy. After…
Finkelstein at Occupy Boston
Norman Finkelstein spoke last night at Occupy Boston. He gave one of the most miserable performances I have ever witnessed,…
The Clearing of Zuccotti Park
The overnight clearing of Zuccotti Park by the police, following similar actions by police in Denver, Portland, Oakland and Atlanta,…