Why Europe can’t just “fix” youth unemployment
Our problems are not due to a lack of innovative ideas; they are due to an excess of financial power concentrated in the hands of an elite of bankers.
New report: no austerity for EU military spending
High levels of military spending played a key role in the unfolding European sovereign debt crisis -- and continue to undermine efforts to resolve it.
Chomsky-Foucault debate removed due to copyright
In a grandiose display of Foucauldian irony, one of the greatest anti-capitalist debates of our time has been reduced to an intellectual commodity.
The Greek workers who took inspiration from Argentina
Drawing inspiration from the Recovered Factories Movement in Argentina, the Vio.Me factory in Greece has begun production under worker self-management.
Now online: the historic Chomsky-Foucault debate
Excerpts from the Foucault-Chomsky debate on human nature and power have circulated online for years -- now it's available in full for the first time.
The City at a Time of Crisis: research project on Athens
A collective of researchers, photographers and filmmakers comes together to launch a powerful new multimedia research project on the crisis in Athens.
IMF chief Lagarde heckled by students in Amsterdam
Dutch, Greek and Spanish members of the Occupy movement interrupt a lecture by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde at the University of Amsterdam.
Financial Empire and the global debtors’ prison
Financial Empire may have reduced us all to debt prisoners, but we can still become the social protagonists of history's greatest-ever prison break.
The true meaning(lessness) of the Reinhart-Rogoff debacle
Sadly, economic policy is guided by neither facts nor ideas -- it is guided by power. Ending austerity will require more than Excel spreadsheets alone.
It’s Capitalism, Stupid! Festival of the Other Europe
On May 3-12, Florence will host a counter-summit to the EU State of the Union with a series of public events on the crisis of capitalism and democracy.
Against the marketization of the university
The crisis in higher education is the result of a privatized culture of management. This is a plea for turning universities back over to the sciences.
The dangerous dreams of Slavoj Žižek
Žižek's misplaced tribute to Thatcher and his diatribe against direct democracy reveal the dangerous messianic tendencies of his "radical" philosophy.
Talking about a revolution with John Holloway
"There is a growing sense throughout the world that capitalism isn’t working; and that the cracks we create in it may really be the only way forward."
Thatcher’s zombie ideology preying on our imagination
Even in death, Thatcher's zombie ideology that "there is no alternative" will continue to feed on our imagination. The time has come to prove her wrong.
Egypt: the necessity of revolutionary violence
Despite a glorification of the Egyptian revolution as a "non-violent" one, violence has been a part of the uprising since the first stone was thrown.
