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 a world that smells rotten. They set out in social networks and in acampadas what many people think: that it was banks [...]

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 austerity. In Greece, the technocratic corporate government imposed by the Illuminati cabal at the head of the IMF and European [...]

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 have by now have heard of the assortment of people, made homeless by predatory borrowing, who are making themselves at [...]

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 get to the littlest.
What I am referencing here to on this occasion by my witty apothegm above is the recent case of [...]

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, but the people who arouse in us the most unbearable conflict. Thinking about its media campaign around its ‘crackdown’ on [...]

Clip of an interview with veteran Irish socialist, Joe Deasy, which took place in Mr. Deasy’s home in Crumlin in November 2009.
The interviewer is Mick O’Reilly.
Joe Deasy talks about his earliest political memories, his move towards socialism in the 1940s, and his encounters with ‘Big’ Jim Larkin on the council of Dublin Corporation.
For [...]

Below is Hugh Green’s penultimate post on The Punishment of Sloth. Here’s the final one. We look forward to more words and translations from him where ever, and how ever they may appear. Many thanks for allowing us to publish this post here.
On his excellent blog La pupila insomne, Cuban blogger Iroel Sánchez Espinosa collected [...]

The commenter Tamarind left this comment on Niamh Kelly’s June 2nd post Violence in Barcelona. See also Real Democracy Ireland about Sunday J19 Protests in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick. Also Hugh Green’s translated article on the Euro Pact by Juan Torres López and Alberto Garzón Espinosa
SEQUEL: PROTESTERS BLOCK ACCESS TO CATALAN PARLIAMENT AND JOSTLE [...]

Friday saw continuation of protests across Spain against the current political system in the country despite the ridiculous attempt by the Spanish government to place a ban on all protests coming up to the elections. It also brought with it one of the first clashes with police since the movement began. Barcelona was the site [...]

One of the most interesting aspects of the protests in Spain has been the emergence of the debate on democracy. Since September 11, democracy, or at least the Western capitalist conception of democracy, has been held as a sacrosanct ideal, heroically achieved by the people of Europe, America and the ‘West’ in general.
George W Bush [...]