No more Missouri compromises - John Garvey
Like many others, we at Insurgent Notes have been paying a great deal of attention to the events in Ferguson, Missouri, that began with the murder of Michael Brown in August. We have been inspired by the courage, determination and endurance of the people from Ferguson, and other nearby cities, that have refused to let his murder simply pass by—in spite of the overwhelming police/military power that has confronted them.
Review: Chris Rhomberg, The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor (2012)
A critical review of Chris Rhomberg's The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor.
What’s up with Bosnia? - Juraj Katalenac
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Article about situation in Bosnia as rioting across the country continues in the wake of demonstrations against privatisation, from Insurgent Notes.
Yugoslav self-management: Capitalism under the red banner - Juraj Katalenac
Analysis of Yugoslav socialism and its system of self-management.
Review: Susan Buck-Morss, Thinking past terror: Islamism and critical theory on the Left (Verso, 2003)
Arya Zahedi takes critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss to task on positing political Islam as a "Middle Eastern" answer to the fight against capitalism in the region.
Symposium: Truth and revolution
A symposium on Michael Staudenmaier's Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986.
Notes towards a critique of Maoism
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Oct 16 2012 08:03
Loren Goldner's 'bare-bones history' of Maoism.
Make sure you don’t fall: Perspectives on the recent social agitation in Chile, part one
Carlos Lagos P. and Jorge Budrovich S. discuss the massive student movement in Chile and the social unrest which has accompanied it.
Class Struggle in Vietnam: From the Colonial Yoke to Wage Slavery for Global Capital
Following a recent wave of strikes in Vietnam, Insurgent Notes discuss capitalist development and class struggle in the country.
The sky is always darkest just before the dawn: class struggle in the US from the 2008 crash to the eve of the occupations movement - Loren Goldner
Loren Goldner discusses working class and capitalist responses to the crisis since 2008.
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