Note: Much of the material on China below is drawn from the important research being done by Chuang. Their blog is currently available here, and the first issue of the Chuang journal is due to be released in full early next year. Sabot There’s something about shoes. In the early workers’ movement, slowdowns, sit-downs and the destruction of machinery took on the name “sabotage,” from the sabot or wooden shoe. Though the...
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Below is a recent translation of New Ghetto’s Burning, an article originally published on Ultra about the Ferguson riots. According to the Greek collective who translated the article, Assembly for the Circulation of Struggles (SKYA), the pdf version of this piece is being distributed free of charge in squats and autonomous spaces throughout Greece. Μπροσούρα που μοιράστηκε στα πλαίσια του Πολιτικού Καφενείου της Πέμπτης...
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[A Spanish translation of this article is available here, thanks to My Heart is to the Left for translating. And now also in Greek.] Where? Ferguson, Missouri. Most of us never would have heard of it, but many have now had the conversation: Where the hell is Ferguson? St. Louis, sort of? But not simply St. Louis. Ferguson is not just a neighborhood in a sprawling city, as Watts is to Los Angeles or Flatbush to New York. This is...
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On December 17, 2010 Mohamed Bouazizi lit the match which, together with the fire that killed him, also lit the fire of revolt. His self-immolation was the negative side of the current impasse of capitalism. The expulsion of labor-power value from the reproduction cycle of capital, the continuous devaluation, and the destruction of variable capital that dominates the crisis so far, defined the context of the suicide of a young...
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A printable .pdf version of this piece is available to download at Oplopanax Publishing. Thanks to the folks who designed it. A translation of the article is also available here, in Mandarin Chinese. Big thanks to the translators. Oplopanax Publishing also converted the translation to .pdf, available here. Two years ago in Seattle, on May 1st, 2012, roughly four to five hundred people engaged in the largest riot the city had...
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