The Provisional University, an activist research and autonomous education project based in Dublin is posting a series of articles on the Mortgage Holders Platform (Platforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, or PAH), a Spanish movement…
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Spain’s MoU Dealing with the Symptom and Not the Cause
The Spanish newspaper El Pais has a story today on a version of Spain’s rescue package for the banks which has only been made available in Germany and the Netherlands but not in Spain. In…
Greece: The Chorus is Still Deliberating
Originally published in Cuarto Poder, Monday 18th June, in the aftermath of the Greek elections. Juan Carlos Monedero is Professor of Political Sciences and Administration at the Complutense University of Madrid. In Smiley’s People, the…
The ‘bailout’ or the ‘loan’: a veritable looting – at gunpoint
This is a translation of a piece from John Brown’s blog on the Spanish bank bailout. Thanks to John for allowing us to publish it here. A cursory analysis of the general budgets of the…
Challenges of Indignation
This is the third of three translations of pieces that appeared originally on the Spanish blog Madrilonia.org. All three were translated by Liz Mason-Deese. This article was originally published on May 31st, 2012. The 15M is very alive, we…
Imagining the Revolution of the 99%
This is the second of three translations of recent articles that appeared the Spanish blog Madrilonia.org. All three were translated by Liz Mason-Deese. This was originally published on the May 14, 2012. On May 15th of last year we…
Seven Questions about May 12-15 (12M-15M) in Madrid
This is the first of three translations of recent articles that appeared the Spanish blog Madrilonia.org about the first year of the 15M Movement and the events organised to mark it. We will be publishing…
George Orwell: Anything But a Saint
This year’s centenary of George Orwell’s birth* at Motihari in Bengal, India on 25 June 1903 has seen a marked upturn in interest in both his writing and in the man himself. Penguin have republished…
Europe’s largest economic failure is not in Greece – but in the UK, Italy and Spain
With the European Union (EU) heading into a double dip recession, even before the peak level of GDP of the previous business cycle has been regained (Figure 1), it is evident that the solutions adopted…
Where are the ‘indignados’ going?
Translation of an article by Manuel Castells, originally published in La Vanguardia, 21st January 2012. The indignados movement that burst forth in 2011 in Spain, Europe and the United States is a breath of fresh air in…
Mariano’s Trench
A loose translation: Aggressive Begging for Change. This past month has been demonstrating the various ways in which the different nationalities of the world make clear their personal innate characteristics through their response to the…
#Occupy_Quality_Street!!
Don’t Mention the Chocolate War. I was Mention It Once, But I Think I am Get Away with It. Unless you have been living in a yurt (which is a tent containing pro-biotics), you will…
Irritation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Didn’t You Kill My Brother? As goes the old saying Big fleas are having little fleas upon their backs which are bite them, and little fleas have even littler fleas, and so on until you…
From the Wires
There is a passage in Adam Phillips’s most recent book On Balance where he quotes Freud biographer Ernest Jones as observing that it is not the people we hate the most that we want to kill,…
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