A 2010 essay on the life, death and continuing appeal of the legendary French bank robber, kidnapper and escape artist, known as “Public Enemy No. 1” and “the man of a thousand faces”, Jacques Mesrine, the author of The Death […]
ABSTRACT Neoliberalism and austerity are not ‘false policies’, but strategies of increasing profits by reducing labor and welfare costs. In the process of dismantling labor rights and the welfare state, a part of the population is being marginalized. It becomes
Transcending the nation: a communist strategy in the era of globalization. A reply to Velissariou
On January 17, 2018, the French government announced on television, via the voice of Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, that it had given up on pursuing the highly controversial project of building a new airport at Notre-Dame-des-Landes (NDDL). This decision capped
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I was asked to consider the question of ‘the withering away of the state’. Engels first coined the phrase, as you know, in his Anti-Durhing. Engels writes: The interference of the state power in social relations becomes superfluous in
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LAIKAtheorie Band 10: Tiqqun: Anleitung zum Bürgerkrieg Tiqqun ist ein anonymes französisches Autorenkollektiv, das seit 1999 besteht. Die Autoren montieren essayistisch-poetische politische Schriften, die sich von der systemimmanenten Kritik der klassischen Linken an der heutigen kapitalistischen Gesellschaft radikal abwenden und
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The usual accusation made against Israel or Zionism is that this state was founded where other people were already living. But the founding acts of all hitherto existing polities were never acts of justice, but rather always acts of violence.
On The Radical Left and National Liberation