Monday, June 27, 2011

Canada: Federal NDP Convention - Right-wing Fails to Remove Socialism

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Written by Julian Benson Friday, 24 June 2011 The New Democratic Party, fresh on the heels of an historic electoral victory, has just con...
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Revolutionary Precursors: Radical Bourgeois Architects in the Age of Reason and Revolution

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Étienne-Louis Boullée's "Cénotaphe a Newton" (Cenotaph to Newton) (1784) Étienne-Louis Boullée's "Cenotaph for Newton...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Why is there no socialist architectural movement today?

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I am choosing to repost a reply I wrote in answer to a good question Ren raised over at my blog. I hope that it is informative for everyon...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

The Balance Sheet of October

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This is an excerpt from a book highlighting the pluses and minuses of the Russian Revolution. It shows even a deformed socialism as Stalin...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Gates Speech Reveals Deep Splits in Nato

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Written by Alan Woods Friday, 17 June 2011 Robert Gates speaking at the Annapolis naval academy in 2010. Photo: DoD/Cherie Cullen A decad...
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Monday, June 13, 2011

Notes on the Class Struggle in the USA

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Written by John Peterson Monday, 13 June 2011 February 19, Wisconsin. Photo: Jonathan Bloy We publish here the notes used by John Peterson,...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

Cuban CP Congress Ratifies Economic Guidelines – Workers’ Control and International Socialism Absent From Discussion

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Written by Jorge Martin Tuesday, 07 June 2011 The long delayed VI Congress of the Cuban Communist Party took place on April 16-19 in Hava...
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Monday, June 06, 2011

Greece On The Brink of Revolutionary Situation

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Written by Stamatis Karagiannopoulos Monday, 06 June 2011 June 2, Syntagma Square. Photo: Rania H. Yesterday a milestone was passed in th...
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Thursday, June 02, 2011

Top Ten Posts

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This is a list of the posts from this blog, that received the most hits. 1) Little Ashes (2008) Movie Review 2) Helmut Newton 3) The Anti-Jo...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Open Letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka from the Campaign for a Mass Party of Labor

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Written by John Peterson Wednesday, 25 May 2011 13:37 Brother Trumpka: The news that you have declared the AFL-CIO's "political...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

The Spanish Elections and the Revolutionary Movement

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Written by Alan Woods Monday, 23 May 2011 May 20, Madrid. Photo: Engel Serón It leaps across frontier, defying all barriers, it laughs at...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

The Fall of Strauss-Kahn

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Written by Greg Oxley in Paris Thursday, 19 May 2011 Dominique Strauss-Kahn Photo: IMF/ Michael Spilotro How the mighty have fallen! What...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The Spatiotemporal Dialectic, Part III: Abstract Space

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Spaces of Capitalism II. The Spatial Dialectic of Capital There is a spatial duality inherent in capitalism analogous to the temporal dialec...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

The Spatiotemporal Dialectic of Capitalism, Part II

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“Today I saw History riding on horseback.” — Hegel, 1806, after seeing Napoleon ride through town following the Battle of Jena B. Concrete, ...
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Sunday, May 15, 2011

The Spatiotemporal Dialectic of Capitalism, Part I: Abstract, Newtonian Time

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Scaffolding around St. Stephen's Tower, which would house the famous Big Ben clock (1857) The Origin of Modernist and Eclecticist Archi...
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