The Hong Kong government is so far mainly using repressive measures against the mass movement, but, recently, state media in China have started pushing for a change in the city’s housing policy – possibly a first sign for economic concessions in reaction to the pressure ‘from below.’
The Hong Kong ...
Über 20 Jahre ist es her, da versank ein Parteitag der Grünen in Bielefeld fast im Chaos und stand mehrmals kurz vor dem Abbruch. Höhepunkt war der Wurf eines Farbbeutels ins Ohr des damaligen Bundesaußenministers Josef Fischer. Der war noch nicht lang im Amt und war mit seinem sozialdemokratischen Koalitionspartner ...
On Saturday, unarmed soldiers of China’s People’s Liberation Army cleared street barricades close to Baptist University that had been erected by protesters in the past days – the first know deployment of the Chinese army in connection with the protest movement. After a turbulent week, the situation calmed down slightly ...
The following was sent to us earlier today (11/13) by Evade Chile 2019. What follow is a translation of their message, followed by a translation of their communiqué.
Comrades,
Faced with these adversarial moments, only solidarity & mutual aid could give us encouragement.
[FRONT IMAGE]
IT WASN’T A DROUGHT IT ...
As a pure form of the “alienation of the capital relationship”, as Marx writes, money and capital markets emerge, which today confirm day by day that credit money, government bonds and synthetic securities as fictitious or speculative capital determine the economy in the last instance. And when Vilém Flusser writes ...
30 years ago, there were 15 border walls around the world; now there are 70 walls and over 1 billion national and international migrants. International migrants alone may even double in the next 40 years due to global warming. Our new epoch of global flux has also given rise to ...
climate change, climate industrial complex, Kinocene, Migration
„Man sollte zugeben, dass man eine Lust an Zerstörung und an Sachen hat, die kaputt gehen.“
Heiner Müller
Ein Jahr lang Gilets Jaunes, das bedeutet ein Jahr lang Demonstrationen, Versammlungen, Straßenblockaden, Besetzungen. Das bedeutet 53 Wochenenden an denen es irgendwo in Frankreich Tränengas für die aufmüpfigen Massen gegeben hat. ...
In his current essay “Europa Fata Morgana” Georg Seeßlen speaks of post-democracy as a permanent state of emergency, in which the multiple crises (war against terror, financial crisis, Greek crisis, refugee crisis, etc.) fulfilled the function of maintaining it. Seeßlen writes: “The state of emergency can only be maintained if ...
Für das kommende Wochenende mobilisieren die Gilets Jaunes anlässlich des ersten Jahrestages des Beginns ihrer Bewegung landesweit nach Paris. Angekündigt sind Aktionen auf den Champs Elysees, Besetzungen, spontane Demos,…
Gelang es im Nov/Dez letzten Jahres den Staatsapparat wiederholt zu überraschen, Schneisen der Verwüstung in den nobelsten Vierteln der Innenstadt zu ...
November 12: In the early morning, the refugee/migrant squat of Bouboulinas in Exarchia is besieged and evacuated, after the anti-terrorist OPKE had sealed off the north-east corner of the neighbourhood.
November 11: Anti-riot police encircle some 200 hundred students in the economics faculty of the University of Athens. Among the ...
While there are important parallels between the national market and the world market, the latter is not simply a subcategory of the latter. A more detailed analysis of the world market reveals that it is more than just the aggregation of states and enterprises, namely a complex structure, a chain ...
Capital as Power, finance, imperialism, logistics, marxism, world market
30 Jahre nach der Wende finden die Texte der linken DDR-Opposition wieder mehr Beachtung. Das macht deutlich, dass die offizielle Erzählung Risse hat
Nun sind die Feierlichkeiten zum 30ten Jahrestag des Mauerfalls auch schon Geschichte. Es gab natürlich viel Selbstbereicherung der BRD. Doch die Erzählung, dass mit dem 9. November ...
As early as 400 years ago, English goldsmiths began to create paper money by administering their customers’ gold coins and issuing a kind of certificate on them (indicating the amount of gold they had stored) and then lending it as quasi-money, without any further savings being made. Since it rarely ...
Lyotard writes that capital is a pseudo-organism that is not even able to formulate a discourse that establishes its own truth, since it has no metaphysics to explain and justify its existence. The statement made by the Invisible Committee that we live in a world without justification has been true ...
A) Nietzsche and the music
Nietzsche’s work Die Geburt der Tragödie deals in depth with music. The book explains that the tragedy originated in the dithyrambos, where lyric poetry was danced and entered into the drama in which music was given the task of tuning the soul into the tragedy ...
In her book Das Zeitalter des Überwachungskapitalismus Shosana Zuboff describes Facebook & Co as the masters of radical indifference. A new accumulation logic emerges in which the surveillance capital extracts human behavior and its seemingly useless surpluses, that is, absorbs data combined with other data to feed intelligent machines and ...
“There are decades when nothing happens. And there are weeks in which decades happen.”
Lenin Be
it France, Hong Kong, Ecuador, Haiti, Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Iraq,
Catalonia or Chile – the uprisings mark the beginning of a new cycle of
struggles.
The current Riots open up a political ...
chile, circulation, class struggle, featured, riots, world order
Kommentar: Das Urteil zu den Hartz IV-Sanktionen bestätigt das Prinzip von Fördern und Fordern und ist deshalb kein Erfolg für Erwerbslosenbewegung
Wenn nach einem Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts scheinbar alle zufrieden sind, dann weiß man, dass sich die höchste juristische Instanz in Deutschland mal wieder als Gesamtkapitalist bestätigt hat. Diese vornehmste ...
[FRONT OF FLYER]
Osorno [Chile] / 2.15AM / Saturday, Nov. 2nd
“Today torrents of information are no longer about what is not happening, about what I don’t have, about what I can’t do, nor buy, nor aspire to because I don’t have money. Today the torrent of images which ...
“Es gibt Dekaden, in denen nichts passiert. Und es gibt Wochen, in denen sich Dekaden abspielen.” Lenin
Sei es Frankreich, Hongkong, Ecuador, Haiti, Ägypten, Algerien, Libanon, Irak, Katalonien oder Chile – die Aufstände markieren den Beginn eines neuen Zyklus von Kämpfen.
Die derzeitigen Riots eröffnen eine politische Situation mit polaren ...
Aufstand, chile, gilet jaunes, Imperialismus, Kampfzyklus, Polizei, Riot, Zirkulationskampf
If one wants to follow the Japanese philosopher Kojin Karatani, Marx has posed the problem of the value form and value in the course of the theoretical treatment of the antinomy of intrinsic value and value relativism. (Cf. Karatani 2003) For Marx, this problem presented itself as follows with regard ...
