Tag Archives: Capital

The Assault

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

Neoliberalism: the transfer of social wealth to private hand, enforced by the State.  The lie of an expansion of free markets and free human economic activity is belied by State enforced appropriations of commons, created over generations, for private gain … Continue reading →

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Future Suspended

Posted on February 25, 2014 by Julius Gavroche

From the crisis-scape research collective and the film maker Ross Domoney of Aletheia Photos comes a striking film study of Athens and Greece under the reign of crisis.  From the appropriation of public land for private accumulation, to terror against … Continue reading →

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The violence of capitalism … and the resistance to it: Stories from spain

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

Video, No Job Land, by Olmo Calvo, Eva Filgeira and Gabriel Pecot …

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South Africa: The apartheid of capitalism

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Julius Gavroche

From John Pilger, the documentary film Apartheid Did Not Die (1998) … In 1994 South Africa inspired the world as millions of people cued patiently to vote in the country’s first democratic elections.  It was the end of apartheid, the … Continue reading →

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Consumption

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Enjolras Sanchez

It was once remarked (by Guy Debord) that a society whose members are fully born within the spectacle will not have any other reference point than the spectacle itself making the prospects of a revolution unlikely. We would like to … Continue reading →

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