This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis, our next text which is J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron and Stephen Healy, Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities.
As previously, we will [...]
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The financial crisis of 2007-2008 severely damaged the fundamental structures of global economy. However, neoliberalism remained as the dominant mode of capitalist accumulation. States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of capitalist Order exclusively [...]
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This post is written jointly by Ekrem Ekici and Jörg Nowak*
The publication of Rupture Magazine aims to address the necessity of a rupture with the social relations that comprise capitalism as a type of society and mode of production. After the long crisis that began in [...]
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Turkey, a peripheral country with poor working conditions, has been subjected to an anti-labour regime and severe capitalist exploitation under the consecutive Justice and Development Party (AKP) Governments since 2002. In this guest post, drawing on my article Countering globalization and [...]
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Members of a student reading group in the People’s Republic of China are in detention for reading and discussing
As progressive reading and working groups we of the Marxism Reading Group in the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham [...]
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The internationalisation of Chinese capital is perhaps the single biggest economic story of the past two decades. The value of China’s overseas investment and construction combined is approaching $1.8 trillion. Africa has not remained behind, claiming its fair share of Chinese investment [...]
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
In the tradition of E. P. Thompson, redolent of the work of Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, Michael Quinlan’s The Origins of Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1788-1850 is magisterial and exhaustive. ‘Magisterial’ because it is game-changing in regard [...]
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The law oppresses us and tricks us, The wage slave system drains our blood; The rich are free from obligation, The laws the poor delude.
— The Internationale adaptation of Charles H. Kerr translation from the original.
As these lines from The Internationale so graphically [...]
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