A South African ruling-class brawl
Hillary Clinton’s complaints about the spread of “fake news” belie her contributions to it
Authoritarian Neoliberalism: the Specter of Pinochet
This essay explores the rise of populist demagogues and the economics of their regimes. Rather than marking a clear break with neoliberalism or a direct tie to early twentieth century fascism, these figures historically connect to the regime of Augusto Pinochet and illustrate a growing trend of authoritarian-neoliberalism.
Contrasting populisms: Lambie’s labourism and Hanson’s opportunism
So this is how it ends: Obama spends his last months in office shilling for the TPP
Standing at night, or taking it lying down? - Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu
A byproduct of the recent protests against the new "Labour Law" in France was an Occupy-style protest movement (known as "Nuits Debout") based around gatherings in public squares, notably Place de La République in Paris. This is a translation of a highly critical leaflet which Mouvement Communiste distributed at the gatherings. The original French version is provided as a PDF.
Libertarian critique and the left wing of capitalism - Miguel Amorós
In these (January 2016) draft notes for a lecture on the “partiocracy” and its crisis—pertaining for the most part to Spain and Southern Europe—Miguel Amorós points out that, while the “professional politicians” continue to betray their former constituencies (relatively privileged layers of the middle class), and the civil society movement (the “left wing of capitalism”, “led for the most part by professors and lawyers”) tries to rally those same constituencies to support illusory “reforms”, a revolutionary response must involve at least in part the pursuit of a kind of “restoration” that takes its “inspiration from historical examples of non-capitalist ways of living together”.