Chomsky’s response to Chris Knight’s chapter in the new ‘Responsibility of Intellectuals’ book
Chomsky’s relationship with war research at MIT has been a controversial topic ever since the publication of Chris Knight’s Decoding Chomsky.
Here is Chomsky’s latest response in the debate – followed by Knight’s rejoinder:
Reflections on the Student Movement in the UK
Submitted by Internationalis... on Aug 6 2019 13:51
In 2010 the announcement by the Coalition government that university tuition fees would be tripled sparked a wave of student protest. Remaining largely within the confines of the campus, the movement exhausted itself and failed to spread to other sectors. Nine years later, what’s left?
Education Strikes from West Virginia and Kenya to the UK
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 6 2018 17:23
On Sunday March 25 the CWO held a meeting in Newcastle focussing on the recent educational strikes across the world. It was attended by students, academics and other university workers (some in the CWO, some not) who had participated in the recent pickets of Newcastle, York and Durham universities. A CWO comrade gave the following introduction.
When Chomsky Worked on Weapons Systems for the Pentagon - by Chris Knight
Submitted by hedgehog on Mar 4 2018 14:00
Between 1963 and 1965, Noam Chomsky worked as a consultant on an Air Force project to establish English as an “operational language for command and control.”[1] According to one of his students, who also worked on this project, the military justification for funding this work was “that in the event of a nuclear war, the generals would be underground with some computers trying to manage things, and that it would probably be easier to teach computers to understand English than to teach the generals to program.”[2]
University Worker - strike bulletin of the 2018 and 2019 lecturers disputes
Libcom's archive of the "University Worker" weekly bulletins produced by Notes from Below for the 2018 lecturers nationwide pension strike.
Anatomy of a scandal – Miguel Amorós
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Feb 20 2018 21:56
An account of the “Strasbourg Scandal” of 1966—widely recognized as a precursor to the greater scandal of May 1968—its background, its protagonists, the takeover of the local student union and the origins of the pamphlet, “The Poverty of Student Life…”, the role played by the members of the Situationist International in the affair, particularly Debord and Mustapha Khayati, the humiliating exclusion of the “Garnaultins” in January 1967, and the SI’s subsequent descent into an even more rigid and unapproachable sectarian existence until its dissolution in 1972.
Universities and the militarisation of our social lives
Submitted by Bluenile on Sep 15 2017 19:05
Since 2008, we have seen a deliberate and calculated approach by the state to incorporate military institutions and activities into our daily lives, with universities at forefront of this militarisation.
Chomsky on War Research at MIT
Submitted by hedgehog on Mar 18 2017 21:49
On 25 February 2017, a conference was held at University College London to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Noam Chomsky's landmark article, 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals'.[1]
During the conference, Noam made the following statement about the military research that was going on at his university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, around the time when the article was published:
