Drop the Dead Donkey Newsrooms are fucked up. Everyone watches everyone else to see who will have their Michael Douglas in Falling Down moment. They’re waiting for you to snap or get the sack so they can move into your seat. Unlike other corporate environments where you’re stabbed in the […]
David Harvey writes extensively on Marxist geography and the political economy and is the author of a number of books, including The Urbanization of Capital, Rebel Cities, and The Enigma of Capital. He is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New […]
“Nothing will change” sounds like a tagline to Francis Fukuyama’s End of History, the celebration of ‘liberal democracy’ as the final evolution of human governance. Perhaps fittingly, these were the words that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden used to describe his greatest fear after he contributed evidence of the global US/UK […]
Michael Hardt has combined his role as Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University with political writings and activism. Together with the Italian Marxist Antonio Negri, he has produced an influential critique of our present time. Their trilogy of books – titled “Empire”, “Multitude”, and “Commonwealth” – have been described […]
“You remember that children’s song about the guy who “works all day at a button factory”? That was me” So, I had this cup of coffee made with the machine bought from Brewespressocoffee.com site. It wasn’t my cup, but it was my coffee, at least during and after the point […]
It seems somehow fitting that we began writing this editorial on the day that Margaret Thatcher died. After over thirty years of neoliberal governance, we are now being subjected to the next malevolent mutation of the state she revolutionised. The neoliberal project has rewritten many of the rules that British […]
Since 2008, the latest crisis of capitalism has given birth to a new wave of horizontal and collective forms of organising in the United States: The occupation of the State Capitol of Wisconsin in early 2011 in opposition to Governor Scott Walker’s plan to drastically reduce collective bargaining rights. The […]
Positive Discrimination is an approach which takes factors including race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin into consideration in an attempt to mitigate the oppression of underrepresented social groups. The idea was memorably promoted through the US governmental policies of ‘Affirmative Action’ in the 1960s that were aimed […]
In recent years, feminism has been made to feel like an exclusive concept, one reserved for ‘leftists’ and academics. As a result, gender politics is regularly dismissed as being of relevance only to this minority. There’s also a worrying attitude that feminism was something from the past, that came and […]
One fine morning in the 90s, I awoke to the noise of a chainsaw outside, felling the trio of plum trees which stood taller than the council flats around them. The toilets needed replacing, explained a man in overalls. The masonry needed storing, there, in the only suitable space in the […]