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omnia-sunt-communia: Silivia Federici Revolution at Point Zero:...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:52:34 -0400

Silivia Federici Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Film of the Public Lecture by Silvia Federici about her new book: Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (PM Press, 2012)

Written between 1974 and the present, Revolution at Point Zero collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain—to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations. In this talk Silvia outlines the ideas within this book in a clear and lucid way. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in “alienated labor” is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction. Beginning with Federici’s organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the essays collected here unravel the power and politics of wide but related issues including the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the politics of the commons

Presented by Bristol Radical History Group
http://www.brh.org.uk/

babylonfalling: Free-Angela demonstration outside of the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:26:52 -0400

babylonfalling:

Free-Angela demonstration outside of the Women’s House of Detention in New York City in this scene from Yolande DuLuart’s Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary (1971)

unPoliceYourMind: Debt

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:59:17 -0400

unPoliceYourMind: Debt:

forgottenness:

“Being indebted to a bank hides the fact that there is a relation of exploitation. As a debtor, you don’t appear any longer as a worker. Debt is very mystifying. It brings about a change in the management of class relations. This is what is at stake in the ideology of…

television commercial for communism via

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:32:34 -0400

television commercial for communism

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Sat, 18 May 2013 09:37:08 -0400

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revleft k-pop, j-pop, etc.

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:37:00 -0400

revleft k-pop, j-pop, etc.:

i knew this existed

Dionne Warwick - Walk On By

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:36:00 -0400

Dionne Warwick - Walk On By

todayinlaborhistory: Today in labor history, May 17, 2004:...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:32:00 -0400

todayinlaborhistory:

Today in labor history, May 17, 2004: Starbucks baristas in New York City sign cards demanding representation by the Industrial Workers of the World. The Starbucks Workers Union, affiliated with the IWW, continues to fight for higher wages, better working conditions, regular hours of work, and health coverage for Starbucks workers.

Khaimetkoum chez Djezzy Tinariwen

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:44:00 -0400

Khaimetkoum chez Djezzy Tinariwen

Dionne Warwick - Anyone Who Had A Heart

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:01:00 -0400

Dionne Warwick - Anyone Who Had A Heart

babylonfalling: endless

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:48:00 -0400

babylonfalling:

endless

speakingparts: “Italy epitomizes the social contradictions of...

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:13:00 -0400

speakingparts:

“Italy epitomizes the social contradictions of the whole world, and tries, in a manner we are familiar with, to amalgamate in a single country the repressive Holy Alliance of class power, bureaucratic-totalitarian and bourgeois, which already functions openly across the face of the earth in an economic and police State solidarity; although, of course, not without some discussion and settling accounts in the Italian manner. As the most advanced country at the moment in its slide toward a proletarian revolution, Italy is also the most modern sort of laboratory for international counter-revolution. Other governments coming out of the old bourgeois democracy, “pre-spectacular” in nature, look on with admiration at the Italian government for the impassiveness which it can maintain at the tumultuous center of its degradation, and for the calm dignity with which it sits in the mud. It is a lesson which they will have to apply in their own countries for a long time.”

Guy Debord, from the 4th Italian edition of La Société du spectacle

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«L’Italia riassume le contraddizioni sociali del mondo intero, e tenta, nel modo che si sa, di amalgamare in un solo Paese la Santa Alleanza repressiva del potere di classe borghese e burocratico-totalitario»

Stills: Il divo, 2008, Paolo Sorrentino

emmayabasta: Hurricane Fannie Mae (by BIGRAFX)

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:38:00 -0400

emmayabasta:

Hurricane Fannie Mae (by BIGRAFX)

Audio

Tue, 07 May 2013 08:33:00 -0400

tinariwen - matadjem yinmixan

Sat, 04 May 2013 12:49:00 -0400

tinariwen - matadjem yinmixan

International Times #9 (1967) via

Sat, 04 May 2013 10:39:00 -0400

International Times #9 (1967)

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Secretive Spy Court Approved Nearly 2,000 Surveillance Requests in 2012

Fri, 03 May 2013 08:34:00 -0400

Secretive Spy Court Approved Nearly 2,000 Surveillance Requests in 2012:

infoneer-pulse:

A secretive federal court last year approved all of the 1,856 requests to search or electronically surveil people within the United States “for foreign intelligence purposes,” the Justice Department reported this week.

The report, released Tuesday to Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader from Nevada, provides a brief glimpse into the caseload of what is known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. None of its decisions are public.

The 2012 figures represent a 5 percent bump from the prior year, when no requests were denied either.

» via Wired

“Revolutionary soldiers and sailors of Petrograd in 1917. These...

Wed, 01 May 2013 09:03:50 -0400

“Revolutionary soldiers and sailors of Petrograd in 1917. These were workers and peasants in uniform. They had chosen the most radical form of class struggle by turning their weapons on their social enemy.”

Dietrich Mühlberg - Proletariat: Culture and Lifestyle in the 19th Century

HAPPY MAY DAY!

greenteasession: NICOLE WILLIS & THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:57:00 -0400

greenteasession:

NICOLE WILLIS & THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS “TIME TO GET BUSINESS STRAIGHT”

L.A. Digger News (1967). Tabloid newspaper format (16pp.)....

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:28:00 -0400

L.A. Digger News (1967). Tabloid newspaper format (16pp.). First edition, “published and edited by two diggers, George and Plastic Man. They have been gathering the contents of the paper from the streets as they make their daily rounds of the feed-in’s, love-in’s, underground papers and all the groovy people they know in the area”.

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