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12 03 12

Trial Against Four Political Activists in Vienna

The trial against four political activists will take place in the Josefstadt District Court on the 13th March 2012 at 9:00 am. Under the pretext of having set a garbage can on fire in front of the AMS (unemployment office) in Rederergasse, a political trial will be conducted that is directed against autonomous political practices and policies. Under paragraph 278b, month-long surveillance operations have been carried out, which – beginning with the education protests in 2009 – soon the observations included the activities of the autonomous/anarchist and anti-racist scene.

24 02 12

Rescue the Greek People from their Rescuers!
Retten wir das griechische Volk vor seinen Rettern!

At a time when one in two young Greeks is unemployed, when 25,000 homeless people wonder the streets of Athens, when 30% of the population has fallen below the poverty line, when thousands of families are forced to give up their children to save them from dying of hunger and cold, when refugees and the newly impoverished fight over bins in public dumps, the “rescuers” of Greece, under the pretext that Greeks “aren’t doing enough”, are imposing a new aid package that doubles the administered lethal dose. This is a package that abolishes the right to work and reduces the poor to extreme poverty, while making the middle class disappear.

10 02 12

Am 1. März sprechen wir Sprachstreik!

Avusturya macht Sprache zum Lieblingsproblem. Einfache Lösung: Deutschpflicht für alle.

Hayır, Jo, Lo, Ne, Njet, No, Non, Nu! Nicht mit uns!

Mit Ausschluss Basta! haben wir 2011 dem austriakischen Integrations-Theater eine Absage erteilt. Dieses Jahr reden wir übers Reden: Unsere gemeinsame Sprache ist nicht Deutsch! Wir rufen zum Streik gegen den Deutschzwang auf. Sprechen wir gemeinsam die Sprache der gleichen Rechte – am 1. März beim transnationalen, translationalen Migrant_innenstreik.

09 02 12

Marc James Léger: Brave New Avant Garde

Essays on Contemporary Art and Politics

Brave New Avant Garde is a collection of essays that ask the question: what is an adequate model of contemporary avant garde practice and what are its theoretical premises? Brave New Avant Garde stands in opposition to the view that radical practice has no other future than its reduction to the workings of the free market in the form of the simple process of cultural production or to variations on the cultural politics of representation. Today's avant garde, formed in the wake of the end of the Soviet Union and the rise of the anti-globalization movement, represents a counter-power that rejects the inevitability of capitalist integration. The way out for artists in today's world of creative industries is defined in these pages as a psychoanalytically informed sinthomeopathic practice.

19 01 12

Colectivo Situaciones: 19 & 20: Notes for a New Social Protagonism

An 18th Brumaire for the 21st Century: militant research on the December 19th and 20th, 2001 uprisings in Argentina

This book, originally published in Spanish in 2002, is now available in English. Translated by Nate Holdren & Sebastián Touza, and with introductions by Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri.

30 12 11 - Nato Thompson

After the squares have been cleared: Winter reflections on OWS

It is winter and the squares have been cleared. Across the United States, the occupation movement has been erased from public space memory with the routine use of pepper spray, overwhelming displays of militarized force, Mayoral claims of wasted tax payer dollars and unsanitary conditions. While the movement itself continues in sporadic protests, guerrilla actions and moments of civil disobedience, its nodal epicenter of occupations have, at least for the moment, been eviscerated. As we head into the upcoming election year of 2012, the occupation movement in the United States has an opportunity to plan its next move.

04 12 11

A Report onThe First International Conference of Lokavidya Jan Andolan (LJA)

held at Vidya Ashram, Sarnath, Varanasi, between 12 and 14 Nov, 2011

The global economic and ecological crises have exposed the thought and institutions that have enriched a few by making the majority starve and by bringing nature to the brink of destruction. Lokavidya Jan Andolan is a knowledge movement of this majority, that is of those people, who have been dubbed as the ignorant masses by the science establishments, the universities and the modern state. The conference is an attempt to bring together the organizers of the movements of peasants and artisans, indigenous peoples and small trades-people, women and youth on a knowledge platform, which is a platform of their knowledge, lokavidya.

29 10 11

"Occupy Wall Street" - documentary videos (updated!)

"Nobody Can Predict the Moment of Revolution", "We the People Have Found our Voice" and "The Time For Action Is Now (Occupy CUNY)", three videos by Iva Radivojevic & Martyna Starosta are available online.

08 10 11

October 15th - United for global change

On October 15th people from all over the world will take to the streets and squares.

03 10 11

“Réseau de luttes” Meeting in Tunisia

Students, precarious workers, unemployed, and activists of Europe and North Africa met in Tunisia for the transnational meeting “Réseau de luttes” from September 29th to October 2nd to share knowledge and collective experiences to create a common process of struggles.

26 09 11

Edu-Factory Journal: Issue #1 – University Struggles and the System of Measure

The new issue of the Edu-Factory Journal is now available for free download.

12 08 11 - Franco Berardi

SCEPSI in the Insurrection
SCEPSI nell’insurrezione

Financial capitalism is crumbling with impressive velocity, and the social civilization built by labour and science during the modern centuries, is in danger. Only cognitive work, independent from financial capitalism will be able to save it. Building autonomy of knwoledge from financial dictatorship is our political, scientific and poetical task.

10 08 11 - Rodrigo Nunes

The other side of 'we're all in it together'

An analysis of the recent events in the UK, as seen from Brazil.

19 06 11 - Ann Demeester, Guus Beumer, Maria Hlavajova, Arno van Roosmalen

Appeal for response! Dutch coup d'etat in art and culture

Last week in a memorandum titled "More than Quality," the State Secretary for Culture, acting on behalf of the Dutch government (a minority government of liberals and Christian Democrats, whose hold on power relies on the support of Geert Wilders's anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV)) announced his new "vision" for the field of culture, which represents nothing less than a violent and sweeping political manoeuvre aimed at the very notion of culture and art, its role in society, and its place within the democratic sphere.

02 06 11 - Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

A Users Guide to Demanding the Impossible

This guide is not a road map or instruction manual. It’s a match struck in the dark, a homemade multi-tool to help you carve out your own path through the ruins of the present, warmed by the stories and strategies of those who took Bertolt Brecht’s words to heart: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

It was written in a whirlwind of three days in December 2010, between the first and second days of action by UK students against the government cuts, and intended to reflect on the possibility of new creative forms of action in the current movements.