US Power and the New Course Towards War
Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 25 2018 11:57
We live, and have been living, in an epoch of capitalist decadence. Notwithstanding longer life expectancy, technological advance, and the claims of its defenders, the capitalist system is incapable of addressing existential questions such as the destruction of the environment via man-made climate change. After all, to do so would get in the way of making profits. Short-term expediency portends long term disaster.
Out of this Capitalist Impasse - A New World Has to Take Shape
Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 27 2018 11:59
The post-war boom melted away decades ago. It produced a mass consumer society unheard of in history. This society was based on the colossal destruction and devaluation of capital in the Second World War.
Beware of Bad Bed Fellows
A contribution to the "Reflections on J18" collection.
WTO - Why Totemise Oppression?
A contribution to the "reflections on J18" collection.
The Ideology of "Globalisation"
A contribution to the "Reflections on J18" collection.
Protectionism and “globalisation” have the same mother: the crisis of capital
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jun 19 2018 18:01
Has “globalisation”, the freedom for capital and goods to move from one end of the planet to the other, with no barriers to limit trade and its miraculous effects, come to an end? Looking at what has happened recently, it seems that an ideology, and, even more so, one of capital’s ways of being has reached the end. It seems like the bourgeoisie, or at least a part of it, has taken a suit from its wardrobe which it has not worn for a long time, one which was needed for a tougher climate and the storms that come with it.
The period of decline – Miguel Amorós
Notes for a presentation delivered in September 2017 at the Gijon Anarchist Book Fair on the social, psychological and moral aspects of the modern crisis of capitalism, and the proliferation of nihilism, mental illness and generalized irrationality, based on the works of Jaime Semprun, particularly his book, L'abîme se repeuple [The Abyss Repopulates Itself], first published in 1997.
In the Country of Dijsselbloem - Labor Relations in the Netherlands
Submitted by Fredo Corvo on Jul 14 2017 13:15
Describtion of labour relations, state-induced attacks on 'social wage', 2017 elections and formation of a new governement in the Netherlands. From a council communist view, developed by Arbeidersstemmen (Workers' Voices).
Lies of the land: against and beyond Paul Kingsnorth’s völkisch environmentalism
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Mar 31 2017 12:56
Paul Kingsnorth, writing in The Guardian, has called for an explicitly nationalist environmentalism. Out of the Woods offer a critique and an alternative.
2017: how we got here and how liberalism failed us
An overview of how the events of the past 25 years have lead us to the situation we now find ourselves in.
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