There’s a certain pathology, an attitude characteristic of capitalist politics with a distinctly British flavour.
Capitalist ambitions and an arrogance of deceit
Tag: Capitalism
Making bisexuality a crisis
Liberation is what we make of it. No one else will provide it for us, certainly no multinational corporation.
The performance review
We are all victims of the performance review. To showcase our commitment to capitalist principles, we must always be on an upward trajectory to become an ‘emancipated’ neoliberal, capitalist subject.
Freedom Press co-opted by … the Hilton?
This story is so utterly ridiculous that when we heard it yesterday we all initially thought it was an April Fools. Freedom Press has, admittedly, got an interesting sort of history and some nice old-timey aesthetics – we’ve been around for a long time after all, selling anarchist books and newspapers. There’s photos of Freedom
Beneath the hustle, the human
Mayday is the workers’ day and thus this is written on a Friday, scheduled via automaton. Our writers and editors have set down quill, doused keyboard, darkened shop, and will be spending their time precisely how they like. An anomaly, based on a story told of Martyrs, a stillness from a section of the public
Greece: crowd gathers in Athens to protest new environmental legislation
Thousands gathered in Athens last Monday (04.05), to protest the new anti-environmental bill, which the ruling right-wing New Democracy party made everything in its power to prepare and pass during the pandemic, with the hope of avoiding social turmoil. The protest took place on the first day of the dropping of the lockdown measures in
The fragility of the system
The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked widespread economic difficulty and societal issues, forcing States across the globe to act in accordance. With stock markets crashing, and state intervention rising, many observers praise the States of the world in their handling of the crisis. I have personally seen more people on social media than ever before comment
Why are today’s Profiteers so insistent on the making of a profit?
Profitism: ‘The need to feel eternal in sensation is essential to our existence. Hence today’s global tyranny in their quest for eternal profit to feel eternal in sensation.’ Each year there are thousands of books published (still accelerating in number since the financial crash of 2008) that demonstrate clearly how today’s Profiteers make a profit,
Book review: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore Verso 2018 ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-213-0 Review by John Fullerton Welcome to the Capitalocene. Humans, at least some of them, are killing everything, from megafauna to microbiota, at speeds one hundred times faster than the background rate. The scale of destruction can’t
Hundreds to protest against outsourcing at University of London
Hundreds of people are expected to protest today at the University of London’s Senate House demanding an end to outsourcing of Uni’s essential staff. The protest is organised by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain’s (IWGB): the biggest union at the University of London’s central administration buildings. IWGB has launched its Back in-House campaign in September
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