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New InterfaceIssue of the global emancipation of labour
Interface
For the global emancipation of labour: new movements and struggles around work, workers and precarity
Volume four, issue two of Interface, a peer-reviewed e-journal produced and refereed…

Open Utopia Launch December 5th NYC

Open Utopia Launch December 5th NYC
Stephen Duncombe and Bob Stein – Launch for Open Utopia
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 – 5:30PM – 7:30PM
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
Join Stephen Duncombe (Gallatin and MCC, NYU) and Bob Stein (Institute for the Future …

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Seattle’s Non-Resisting Resistors

It is entirely evident to the authorities now, that those who supported Leah have ‘opted out’ of supporting her given her ‘release’. They are not unclear as to why. They are smirking in their soup as a matter of fact at the mediocre nature of…

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The Insurrectionary Turn

From The American Reader – By Joshua Clover, David Lau, and Sean Bonney
The following introductory essay, as well as the two poems that follow it, has been drawn from “The Insurrectionary Turn,” a portfolio of new political poetry curated…

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Review: scott crow’s Black Flags and Windmills

From Earth First News – by Sasha
Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective: An Epic Tale Past the Point of No-Return
When I began reading Black Flags and Windmills (PM Press 2011), by scott crow, my imagination was sparked by the power of scott…

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The hip hop they tried to censor: New 2012 Album from Sherman Austin , former political prisoner

From Sherman Austin Music
It’s the hip hop they tried to censor.
Sherman is releasing his second long-awaited solo album this month in 2012.
Sherman’s first album “SILENCE IS DEFEAT” was released in 2007. Since then he has performed locally and over …

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Anarkos – A Brief Introduction to Anarchism

From Indie Gogo
A Word from the Director –
Short film includes original interviews with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Russell Means, Sharon Smith and others. It was created to support a multi-part, non-profit documentary series on anarchism, to be r…

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A Plea for Rejectionist Electioneering

From Unrest Magazine #7
Every four years in American society, critical theorists are offered a veritable human circus of entertainment, as we bear witness to the farce of electioneering.
Every four years, for a month or so, the hum drum apolitical ci…

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14 November 2012: International call to general strike

We have no magic bullet (or want one). What we know is that something has gone wrong here. When you wake up every morning before sunrise to let life go on a low-paying gigs, bound to rush, schedule and boredom. When you see on TV professionals of lyi…

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“Why we’re voting no and you should too”: A statement by the MARS Collective

From: The Minnehaha Free Space
a project of the MARS (Minneapolis Autonomous Radical Space) collective
The way we, the MARS Collective, have chosen to help create the world we want to see is outside electoral politics; we value self-determination, mu…

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Haris Hatzimichelakis: Never Again Unarmed (Greece)

From 325.nostate.net
POLITICAL STATEMENT OF HARIS HATZIMICHELAKIS
To begin with, I must make it clear that I consider this trial to be yet another theater of war, and the present political statement—because this is a political statement and not an …

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DOOM, OOMedia, and the struggle for middle-class respectability and political legitimacy

Different activist factions now compete for a monopoly on the Occupy brand like vultures and hyenas fighting over a rotting carcass. Each tries to outdo the other with their facile demonization of assorted miscreants. The combined message is that …

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In-fighting among factions, identity issues mark Occupy Oakland first anniversary (Analysis)

From Oakland Local
A year ago, when Occupy Oakland began, it seemed like the beginnings of a new grassroots political movement, uniting social, economic and institutional justice movements under one banner.
Twelve months later – on the anniversary o…

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Preoccupying: Alan Moore

From Occupied Times
Alan Moore is a writer and anarchist, and the author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Having written for us back in January, Moore returns to the OT to discuss anarchy, war, and the roots of the modern education system.
OT: Having …

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Adventures of Tarmo – The Far-Right punk rocker in the City Council

Estonia is a small country in the northern/eastern part of Europe, trying hard to leave behind its Soviet past and reaching neo-liberal paradise of Scandinavia. Although we do have our fair share of neo-nazis here, they haven’t had much luck with par…

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The Final Straw: NC Rising 2

From The Final Straw
This episode features a recording of the second part of a panel at a conference that took place at Warren Wilson college outside of Asheville in 2010.
The unedited audio can be found online at Archive.org. This show will be strea…

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325 #10 Out soon

From http://325.nostate.net/
The tenth issue of the infamous and chaotic anarchist-insurrectionary zine will be available in Autumn 2012. 44 pages of antisystem anarchic-insurgence. Featuring amongst other texts

One Year After… (August 2011)
War a…

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An Anarchist Life

From www.anarchistlife.com
We just want to let know that the film
An Anarchist Life by ivan bormann and fabio toich
will be out in january 2013.
You can visit the website and buy the dvd to contribute to the project.
It’s a film about the life of an…

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