If, like me, you have read Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Phenomenology of Perception, and Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology and Dissemination from cover to cover, and all just out of curiosity, then I think it’s fair to say that 1: You’re a div, 2: You’re a div […]

Prohibition of drugs has not only failed in its own terms - it has actually been counterproductive, criminalising large sections of disadvantaged communities while making it more difficult to successfully implement harm reduction measures. At the same time, prohibition ensures continued revenues for the criminal gangs involved in the drugs trade. These are […]

In case there are other people who have not read the book ‘Sugar Blues’ by William Dufty - originally published in 1976 - it can surely be highly recommended. Dufty was an ardent exponent of trade unionism who died in 2002 at the age of 86. He is also known for his interest […]

The first decade of the millennium has seen an intense focus on the politics of the Middle East. Not that the region was considered insignificant at any time since the Second World War. But a series of events that include the 9/11 attacks, the second intifada, America’s war in Iraq and the bloody confrontation between […]

I’ve been promising/threatening to provide a review of David Graeber’s new book, Possibilities, for a few weeks, but a number of factors intervened to postpone it. First, a bunch of books arrived on my doorstep that demanded attention, not least because they touched on some of the issues dealt with in the Graeber […]

Travail Flexible, Salaries Jetables: Fausses questions et vrais enjeux de la lutte contre le chomage - Michel Husson (ed.)
Editions La Découverte, Paris, 2006

Over the past decade, France has displayed something of a split personality when it comes to political orientation. On the one hand, there have been impressive mobilisations against neo-liberalism: […]