Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Occupy New York
RP 171 Sabu Kohso
Evaluation of a movement is never an easy task. Emphatically not so, when it is ongoing and moving in confrontation with power, going through ups and downs, gains and losses. Historically there are many examples in which the loss of one achievement or a digression led to a gain or advancement elsewhere. Development is never [...]
Occupy Oakland
RP 171 Nathan Brown
We live in a time when tents have become the singular weapon of the people which power cannot tolerate, and against which it does not know how to defend itself. The bureaucrats are in shambles; the ‘city’ and its ‘police’ are at each other’s throats; middling reformists have no idea where to position themselves. Everyone [...]
#spanishrevolution
RP 168 Yaiza María Hernández Velázquez
You might have read this May that there were protests in Spain. This is hardly earth-shattering news. Social unrest in the countries so endearingly named the PIGS has been rife since the European Union (EU) departed from its early policy of public spending its way out of the crisis, to offer them a grim choice [...]
Against Education Cuts
RP 166 Nina Power, Escalate, Emily Clifton
Reports from the protests by those campaigning against the cuts to educations, including Nina Power on the centrality of women.
Student control in Croatia
RP 161 Toni Prug
Toni Prug reports on the student occupations of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2009.
Universities in crisis
RP 160 Alex Demirović, Krini Kafiris, Anonymous
Education is not for $A£€ Student protests in Germany In November and December 2009 – responding to the signal from Vienna, where the University’s main lecture has was occupied – buildings, lecture theatres and seminar rooms in fifty West German colleages were occupied… Alex Demirovi Violence and the University Sanctuary law in Greece Shortly before [...]
Faint signal
The student occupations in California and the Communiqué from an Absent Future
RP 159 Nathan Coombs
How should we take the inclusion of the word “communism” in the Communiqué from an Absent Future, the main theoretical text of the recent student protests at the University of California?
157 News
Iran and the Left, Academic freedom in California?, Immigration raid on SOAS
RP 157 NK, Maryam Griffin, Daniel Olmos, Sophia Marie Hoffmann
154 News
Rebellion of Greek youth; Peace, legality, democracy
RP 154 Panagiotis Sotiris, Mihalis Mentinis
Walking into walls: Academic freedom, the Israeli Left and the occupation within
RP 150 David Cunningham
Hunger in Niger and Zimbabwe; Marx Comes First Again, and Loses
RP 134 Lara Pawson, David Murray, Mark Neocleous
Dictating research: Feminist philosophy and the RAE; The case of economics
RP 085 Christine Battersby, Frederick S. Lee , Sandra Harley
