Friday, Jan 27th 2012
These riots reveal some unpalatable home truths | Hari Kunzru | Comment is free | The Guardian
Hari Kunzru has a chilling and accurate indictment of the reaction of those 'average Britons', those " frightened, precarious & lonely little entrepreneurs".
"I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised to see a large number of supposed social liberals [...]
Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey » Blog Archive » Feral Capitalism Hits the Streets
A political economy of mass dispossession, of predatory practices to the point of daylight robbery, particularly of the poor and the vulnerable, the unsophisticated and the legally unprotected, has become the order of the day. Does anyone believe it is possible [...]
Given the onset of a renewed round of the international financial crisis it is useful to draw together its various elements in an analysis of its overall determinants, its course, and the policies necessary to deal with it. This is the aim of this article.
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For the second time in three years almost all [...]
The August edition of the Socialist Voice is out now.
You can download the PDF here or search through the Socialist Voice articles for August on the CPoI’s website.
Articles this month include:
The crisis of the system deepens and spreads [EMC]
The economy continues to slide [EMC]
International investors on strike in the west [NC]
Unemployment [...]
Last Saturday night when disturbances in Tottenham began I tweeted the following “Its a bus and a few cars. Bigger problems in London that 24 hour news doesnt tell you to talk about.Keep calm and carry on. #tottenhamriot“.
It was not my intention to be as dismissive as it now seems I was . Rather, [...]
Note from IPSC: There will be a final action in the IPSC’s series of ongoing protests at the Gaiety Theatre before Riverdance heads off to perform for Israeli Apartheid - so please make the effort to come along on Thursday 18th June at 18:30, (Gaiety Theatre, South King St, off Grafton St, Dublin 2. More [...]
Dan Hind | Nothing ‘mindless’ about rioters
We have a major problem with youth unemployment. There have already been cuts in services for young people. State education in poor areas is sometimes shockingly bad. Young people cannot afford adequate private housing and there is a shortage of council-built stock. Economic inequality has reached quite startling [...]
Darcus Howe & Richard Seymour on UK Massive Social Unrest and Riots (Democracy Now!)
Part 1
Part 2
One of the many things that we hear repeated ad nauseam in the context of the present rioting in London is that the rioters are ‘feral’, ‘yobs’, ‘thugs’ or more generously ‘disaffected youth’. All the talk from Cameron and his cohorts is of crime and punishment and ‘the full force of the law‘ - as [...]
Protest movements teach economics to bankers
In order to avoid continued economic malaise, the European Central Bank should raise inflation rate targets.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is run by people who are not very good at economics. They continue to adhere to a fundamentally wrongheaded view of the economy and the central bank’s role within it.
Unfortunately, [...]
