On January 23 the Solidarity with Longview working groups of Oakland, Portland, Longview and Seattle issued a release on the…
Noel Ignatiev
Letter to Boston Occupy the T
Dear friends, Thank you for keeping me informed of what you are thinking and doing. As you know, I am…
What Life is All About
by Ekim Jae i haven’t read [the recent Counterpunch article on the Wikipedia blackout] yet, however i am about to…
The IWW: Some Lessons for Occupy
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW—“Wobblies”) in its heyday (1905-1920) was a great moment. Like Abolitionism and the Freedom…
Žižek: Too Clever by Half
I forced myself to listen to an hour-and-half talk Slavoj Žižek made in Tel Aviv this past June in which…
Still More on Business as Usual
In a previous entry I reviewed Paul Mattick’s book, Business As Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism.…
More on Business as Usual
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…