Impressions from Ankara: the Turkish protest movement
Submitted by Chilli Sauce on Jun 1 2013 22:37
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A first person account, some background, and some analysis of the ongoing protests in Turkey.
Istanbul Taksim Gezi Park is not about trees
Submitted by Jacques Roux on May 30 2013 14:03
Istanbul's central area of Taksim is currently the scene of a fledging 'occupy movement' as people react to this morning's 5am teargassing of protestors opposed to unchecked gentrification in the historic city.
Expecting resistance: Looking back on the production of a foreclosure defence documentary
Submitted by Eviction Free Zone on May 21 2013 06:58
A detailed look at the production process for our documentary Expect Resistance, which looks at the growing housing justice movement by looking at Take Back the Land Rochester.
The movement to abolish the present state of power: direct democracy, forms, and power
Submitted by s.nappalos on May 3 2013 12:05
A critique of belief in the inherent radical nature of forms such as direct democracy in the context of the anti-austerity movements, and an appeal to politics based on a process of struggle across time deepening breaks with capitalist normalcy.
Direct action, Occupy Wallstreet, and the future of housing justice: an interview with Noam Chomsky
Submitted by Eviction Free Zone on Apr 17 2013 22:45
Check out this interview with Noam Chomsky about the growing housing justice movement, the future of Occupy, and how direct action can play into all of this.
A moving story: with afterword - Jocelyn Cohn and James Frey
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In 2012, workers at a small moving company in New York City rose up against bad pay and dangerous work conditions. In the course of the struggle, much was revealed about how exploitation operates; how the enticements of 'self-expression' and a 'laid back' atmosphere serve to weaken consciousness and collective action. At the same time, this history reveals the opportunities and limits that workers face within self-organized struggles in a small business format. This is an updated version with a new 2013 afterward by the original author.
Untimely meditations for silencing the drum circles - Miguel Amorós
A critique of the “new protests” of the Occupy type, depicting this phenomenon as the expression of a reformist “false civil opposition” led by the “impostors” of the civil society movement in the name of a “citizenry” that is a “fantasy” concocted to serve as a “surrogate subject” (replacing “the people”) which is to be “exercised” and “educated” “in these protests … which spread like a new fashion among the middle class youths who form its ranks”.
Credit, wages and Occupy: what system are we fighting?
Submitted by Recomposition on Feb 8 2013 00:55
John O'Reilly on the Occupy movement in the United States and the direction it took.
The movements of the indignados and the class struggle - an interview with Charles Reeve
An interview with Charles Reeve, who discusses the workers’ struggles in contemporary China, the continuing relevance of Paul Mattick’s and Pierre Souyri’s analyses of the limits of state intervention with reference to the crises of neoliberalism and Keynesianism, and the significance of the movements of the Indignados and Occupy in relation to the decline of workers struggles in the developed world.
A view from the plains: on organizing in smaller areas of the Midwest
A reflection on organizing in areas outside of major metropolises and the last few years of class struggle organizing in eastern Iowa.
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