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July 6, 2009 - Monday
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Current mood:  blissful
Category: News and Politics
THE ROUGE FORUM – UPDATE 6th JULY 2009
A message from Rich Gibson
Dear Friends The Rouge Forum No Blood For Oil (with those good-for-the-rest of your life posters on sale!) is updated at: http://www.richgibson.com/rouge_forum/ On the Madness and Boredom Front: Substance News is carrying reports from the National Education Association's Representative Assembly, running through Monday, here: http://www.substancenews.net/ On the Educational Miracles Front: Substance has exposed the Chicago Miracle, the reason Arne Duncan holds his position as Ed Boss, for years. However, here is another expose, from an unexpected source: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/downloads/CPS.pdf On the What Do You Mean We Had Something to Do With that Coup and What Do We Know About the School of the Americas Front: http://www.soaw.org/ On the Everyone Can Make it in America Front, the Jobless Rate Hits a 26 Year High: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/02/us-unemployment-june-467000 On the Someone is Actually Doing Something About all of This Front: The San Francisco Freedom School is open for summer: http://educationanddemocracy.org/SFFS/2009program.html Russian Students are Resisting: You can do something too. There is one organization in ..North America.., rooted in education, that connects the wars, unemployment, de-industrialization, class struggle, and the crises in schools: The Rouge Forum. Next week we will circulate a call for nominees for this year's Rouge Forum Steering Committee. We urge you to join us. Please spread the word. Thanks to all the courageous delegates at the NEA RA who spoke to me and gave me so much information. You'll see it in print in the coming days. If you are still at the RA and we have not met, please email me asap, or we can talk when you get home. Thanks too to Amber, Wayne, Adam, Bob, Colleen, Tammy, Christina, Katie and Greg, Bill, Joe, Sally, Sue, Donna, Kathy Y and E, Gil, Tony, Jill, Eric, Marcie, Isabella, Victoria, Donnie, Tally, Shawndre, Teeyah, Pete, and Doug. Good luck to us, every one. Rich Gibson
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All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski: http://rikowski.wordpress.com The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk
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July 5, 2009 - Sunday
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Mike Cole on Marx and ‘Capital’
My friend Mike Cole has an excellent reflective review of Capital: Volume 1 by Karl Marx in this week’s Times Higher Education.
I was particularly struck with how Mike started the article with an autobiographical note on how he read Capital: Volume 1 under the tutelage of Tom Bottomore for his Masters degree, and then moved on to outlining some of Marx’s key ideas. As someone interested in Marxist educational theory, I also appreciated how Mike made clear the significance of labour power for Marx’s theory of exploitation in capitalist society. I have explored the role of education and training in the social production of labour power in capitalism for many years now*.
You can see Mike’s reflective review at: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407196&c=2
* See, Online Publications by Glenn Rikowski, at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=pub&sub=Online%20Publications%20Glenn%20Rikowski
Professor Mike Cole is Director of the Centre for Education for Social Justice, Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln. He is author of Marxism and Educational Theory: Origins and Issues (2008) and Critical Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response (2009).
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July 4, 2009 - Saturday
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Current mood:  betrayed
Category: Writing and Poetry
THE FUTURE OF EDUCATIONAL MATERIALISM
Call for papers - Educational Philosophy and Theory Special edition on: The future of educational materialism Edited by David R Cole, University of Technology, Sydney
This edition of the journal will attend to emerging developments in educational materialism by bringing together international scholars in this area. The basic questions that this edition of the journal will address are: How do educational materialisms work? and: What are the relevant theoretical variations on educational materialism and what are their practical applications?
As a starting point for this discussion one might take this quote from Ray Brassier: “While transcendental orthodoxy wastes time staving off the imminent liquidation of reason, sense, and life, transcendental materialism celebrates the deterritorialization of intelligence.”
There are a least three inter-related strands of educational materialism that this special edition will interrogate:
Materialist dialectics: Deriving in main from the work of Karl Marx – the basic thesis behind this strand of educational materialism is that teaching and learning systems are directed towards the manipulation of capital. Schools deliver human capital to the markets - that assess and place qualifications, social status and individual capabilities in terms of capital. This situation has been further accelerated and complexified due to the global use of electronic markets and the emergence of virtual capital. This strand of educational materialism may include work on social capital that is often theorised using the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu. Transcendental materialism. The second theoretical platform for understanding educational materialism is derived from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. This strand accepts material dialectics, yet intensifies and broadens the scope in the ways capital transforms situations. This is because capitalism also acts on an irrational level, and this can be clearly seen if one analyses advertising or takes into account the ways in which media systems manipulate emotions. Transcendental materialism looks for escape routes out of situations that might lead to internalisation - and in the case of education, this includes putting contemporary practises such as examinations under erasure. Speculative materialism. This recent development in materialist theory reconciles materialism with realism - and avoids the potential for duality between materialism and idealism. The essential thesis of this strand of educational materialism stipulates that the designation of ‘the human’ or ‘the subject’ defines limiting criteria that restrict research. The path to forthright understanding of education therefore requires the elimination of phenomenology or any ‘mentalism’ that might contain and lock up the possibilities of material agency.
Interested scholars should send a 500 word abstract in the first instance to David R Cole at david.cole@uts.edu.au by December 1st 2009
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June 28, 2009 - Sunday
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Category: News and Politics
THE JOURNAL FOR CRITICAL EDUCATION POLICY STUDIES
ISSN 1740-2743
The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies is a free e-journal published by The Institute for Education Policy Studies (IEPS)
IEPS is an independent Radical Left/ Socialist/ Marxist institute for developing policy analysis and development of education policy. It is at: http://www.jceps.com
The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS) seeks to develop Marxist and other Left analysis of education.
The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies seeks and publishes articles that critique global, national, neo-liberal, neo-conservative, New Labour, Third Way, postmodernist and other analyses of policy developments, as well as those that attempt to report on, analyse and develop Socialist/ Marxist transformative policy for schooling and education from a number of Radical Left perspectives. JCEPS also addresses issues of social class, 'race', gender, sexual orientation, disability and capital/ism; critical pedagogies; new public managerialism and academic / non-academic labour, and empowerment/ disempowerment. JCEPS welcomes articles from academics and activists throughout the globe. It is a refereed / peer reviewed/ peer juried international journal.
Volume 7, Number 1: June 2009
Michael Viola, University of California Los Angeles, USA The Filipinization of Critical Pedagogy: Widening the Scope of Critical Educational Theory Mike Cole, Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, England On 'white supremacy' and caricaturing, misrepresenting and dismissing Marx and Marxism: a response to David Gillborn's 'Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory in Education' Guy Senese, Northern Arizona University, USA 'Like the Other Kings Have:' a theory of sovereignty and the persistence of inequality in education Helena Sheehan, Dublin City University, Ireland Contradictory transformations: observations on the intellectual dynamics of South African universities Anastasia Liasidou, Roehampton University, London, England Critical Policy Research and Special Education Policymaking: A Policy Trajectory Approach Antoinette Errante, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA Structure, Agency and Cultural Capital as Control over Knowledge Production in Policy Formation: Mozambique’s Education Sector Strategic Plan Angela C. de Siqueira, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Higher Education Reform in Brazil: Reinforcing Marketization Pierre W. Orelus, New Mexico State University, USA Beyond Political Rhetoric and Discourse: What type of educational, socio- economic, and political change should educators expect of President Barack Obama? Sara Zamir, Ben-Gurion University at Eilat, Israel, and Sara Hauphtman, Achva Academic College of Education, Israel The portrayal of the Jewish figure in Literary Texts Included in the Present Matriculation Curriculum in Hebrew for Students of the Arab Sector in Israel Phoebe Moore, University of Salford, England UK Education, Employability, and Everyday Life Rebecca A. Goldstein, Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA, and Andrew R. Beutel, Ramapo Ridge Middle School, Mahwah, New Jersey, USA 'Soldier of Democracy' or 'Enemy of the State'? The rhetorical construction of teacher through 'No Child Left Behind' Stephen Philion, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA Is Race Really Controversial in the University Classroom? Michelle Early Torregano and Patrick Shannon, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA Educational Greenfield: A Critical Policy Analysis of Plans to Transform New Orleans Public Schools Dennis Beach and Margata Carlen, University College Borås, Sweden New partnerships – New interests: An ethnographic investigation some of the effects of employer involvement in trade union education Rodolfo Leyva, Kings College London, University of London, UK No Child Left Behind: A Neoliberal Repackaging of Social Darwinism Ioannis Efstathiou, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Enhancing Students' Critical Awareness in a Second Chance School in Greece: Reality or Wishful Thinking? Mompati Mino Polelo, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana The Small State, Markets and Tertiary Education Reform in a Globalised Knowledge Economy: Decoding Policy Texts in Botswana’s Tertiary Education Reform Posted here by Glenn Rikowski The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski: http://rikowski.wordpress.com
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June 26, 2009 - Friday
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Category: Music
MICHAEL JACKSON – SHAME ON SOCIETY Following the death of my father last February, the music of Michael Jackson has helped my youngest son, Gregory, to move beyond the aftermath and to move on to new projects. Michael Jackson’s music also helped Ruth too in this respect. Greg and Ruth had tickets to see Michael at the O2. They are both shocked and saddened at the death of this great man. Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
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June 26, 2009 - Friday
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Category: News and Politics
READING FROM THE LEFT NEW WEBSITE PROVIDES FREE DOWNLOADS OF CURRENT SOCIALIST BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS
Online Now: http://www.readingfromtheleft.comREADING FROM THE LEFT is a new website, created to promote and distribute contemporary socialist books and pamphlets.
It will feature free PDF downloads of pamphlets, reviews and announcements of socialist books, free PDF downloads of book chapters, and in some cases entire books.
This is a non-commercial project: the website links to places where titles can be purchased, but it does not sell pamphlets or books directly.
The initial response from publishers has been excellent. The site already includes free downloads from:
**Monthly Review Press **Resistance Books (....Australia....) **Resistance Books (UK) **Socialist Voice **Socialist Project
More titles are in preparation.
Please take a look -- http://www.readingfromtheleft.comComments and suggestions are very welcome.
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June 20, 2009 - Saturday
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Category: News and Politics
CAUSES AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS Public Meeting, July 8 in London: Andrew Kliman on 'Causes and Implications of the Economic Crisis' Wednesday 8 July, Lucas Arms (upstairs room), 245a Grays Inn Road St Pancras, London (Kings Cross tube) from 8 to 10 pm. Andrew Kliman is author of 'Reclaiming Marx's Capital' and a member of the Marxist-Humanist Initiative (US). Meeting sponsored jointly by The Hobgoblin and The Commune. Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
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June 18, 2009 - Thursday
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Category: News and Politics
CONFRONTING CAPITALISM’S ECONOMIC CRISIS Meeting & 4-part Seminar
All events at TRS, 44 East 32nd St., 11th floor, New York, NY, from 7 pm to 9 pm Sponsored by Marxist-Humanist Initiative
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TUESDAY, JUNE 23: PUBLIC MEETING
"The economic crisis and left responses," a talk by Andrew Kliman, author of Reclaiming Marx's "Capital": A refutation of the myth of inconsistency
"A new organization for a time of crisis," a talk by Anne Jaclard, National Secretary, Marxist-Humanist Initiative
Talks followed by open discussion. Donation requested.
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SEMINAR SERIES
Tuesday June 30. Introduction: purpose of seminar series; overview of crisis theories; definition of "crisis"; history of capitalist crises; why crisis theory? Led by Josh Skolnik Tuesday July 14. Underconsumptionism: does paying workers more boost profit? Led by Seth Weiss Tuesday July 21. Marx's law of the tendential fall in the rate of profit. Led by Andrew Kliman Tuesday July 28. The crisis of the free market and the turn to state-capitalist ideology. Led by Anne Jaclard
As the worst economic slump since the Great Depression calls into question the viability of the capitalist system, and as people increasingly doubt whether capitalism is desirable or even necessary, we need to unite theory with practice and an understanding of the current crisis in order to respond effectively. We invite everyone seriously interested in this task to join us in the seminar series. Participants will be expected to have done the readings prior to each session. Posted here by Glenn Rikowski
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June 14, 2009 - Sunday
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Category: News and Politics
UPDATE ON ‘WORKPLACE: A JOURNAL FOR ACADEMIC LABOR’ Workplace: A Journal for Academic LaborThe Editorial Team of Workplace is proud to announce the journal's new home, new outlook, and new publishing system!
We encourage you to browse the Workplace open journal system, submit a manuscript, or volunteer to review http://m1.cust.educ.ubc.ca/journal/index.php/workplace/index.
We also welcome proposals for Special Issues; if you have an idea or have assembled a group of scholars writing on higher education workplace activism and issues of academic labor, send us a proposal.
Current preprints include John Welsh's "Theses on College and University Administration" and "The Status Degradation Ceremony." As a whole, both feature articles challenge scholars to rethink the administration of higher education and how we frame research into this process http://m1.cust.educ.ubc.ca/journal/index.php/workplace/issue/current
Thank you and please forward this invitation to colleagues and networks.
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May 27, 2009 - Wednesday
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Category: News and Politics
The Institute for Education Policy Studies Website Update – May 2009
The Institute for Education Policy Studies is an independent Radical Left/ Socialist/ Marxist institute for developing analysis of education policy. It is at http://www.ieps.org.uk.
The Institute seeks to develop Marxist analysis of policy, theory, ideology and policy development. It also seeks to develop Marxist transformative education theory, analysis and policy analyse and develop socialist/Marxist transformative policy for schooling and education from a number of Radical Left perspectives, including Freirean perspectives. The IEPS and its journal address issues of Social Class, 'Race', Gender and Capital/ism; Critical Pedagogy; New Public Managerialism and Academic / non-Academic labour, and Empowerment/ Disempowerment.
The IEPS critiques global, national, neo-liberal, neo-conservative, New Labour, Third Way, and postmodernist analyses and policy, together with New Public Managerialism . It was set up in 1989 and hosted the formation of the Hillcole Group of Radical Left Educators (1989-2001). The IEPS organises and publicises national conferences and also publishes on-line papers by Radical Left/ Socialist/ Marxist writers.
IEPS publishes an online journal, the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (http://www.jceps.com/) twice a year. The editors of JCEPS are Prof Dave Hill (Chief/ Managing Editor), Prof Pablo Gentile (Latin America) and Prof Peter McLaren (North America). The journal welcomes articles from academics and activists throughout the globe. It is a refereed / peer juried international journal.
The Institute for Education Policy Studies has recently updated its web site. In particular, the biographical details of the Institute’s key writers have been updated, for: Dave Hill, Glenn Rikowski, Paula Allman, Mike Cole, Peter McLaren and Sharhzad Mojab. You can view these updates at: http://www.ieps.org.uk/iepsbios.php
The Institute for Education Policy Studies: http://www.ieps.org.uk/
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May 23, 2009 - Saturday
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Category: Music
Constantin – Live at the 229 Club Here are links to two tracks from last Saturday’s live show by Constantin at the 229 Club, Great Portland Street, London, from YouTube: She’s Got No Money: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-JkGoAlnA London Girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a82fd6W_fWQ Gregory Rikowski was there for the show and has written a review of this excellent band’s performance. See Gregory’s review at: http://www.constantin.uk.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=34&Itemid=53 Constantin will be playing at the Water Rats, King’s Cross, London on 12th June. Gregory Rikowski’s blog, GREGSWORLD, is at: http://www.gregrikowski.blogspot.com
Constantin’s web site is at: http://www.constantin.uk.com
Gregory’s MySpace Profile is at: http://www.myspace.com/92945414
Constantin’s MySpace Profile is at: http://www.myspace.com/constantinspace
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May 21, 2009 - Thursday
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Category: News and Politics
Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues XII From Critique to Contestation MARXISM AND EDUCATION: RENEWING DIALOGUES XII A Day Seminar 10.00– 4.30, Saturday July 4th 2009 Birmingham City University, Perry Barr, B42 2SU, Attwood Building, Room: 044
This is to announce: the 12th Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues (MERD) Seminar
We will be focusing upon: Current Issues in Marxist Education Research
We are pleased to confirm the following line-up of speakers: Andrea Beckmann, Charlie Cooper, Richard Hatcher, Ken Jones, and Gurnam Singh
More information on paper titles and details of the timetable will be sent to you in due course.
The seminar is free but places are limited. To reserve a place and receive a numbered ticket, please contact Joyce Canaan at: joyce.canaan@bcu.ac.uk A waiting list will come into operation when all the places have been allocated
Please forward this invite to those who may be interested
Convenors: Joyce Canaan and Richard Hatcher
The Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues (MERD) Seminars were founded by Tony Green (University of London, Institute of Education) and Glenn Rikowski in 2001. The first MERD Seminar was run at the Institute of Education in October 2002. For details on MERD Seminars 1-10, see: http://www.flowideas.co.uk/?page=events&sub=MERD Posted here by Glenn Rikowski The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk All that is Solid: http://rikowski.wordpress.com
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May 20, 2009 - Wednesday
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Category: News and Politics
Marx and Philosophy Society – 2009 Conference Abstracts Abstracts of papers for the Annual Conference of the Marx and Philosophy Society are now available at: http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk To reserve a place at the conference in advance, please email: martin.mcivor@ alumni.lse. ac.uk
Andrew Chitty
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Marx and Philosophy Society Sixth Annual Conference Saturday 6th June 2009, 9.30am - 6.00pm Room 642, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1
PROGRAMME: Nicole Pepperell (RMIT, Melbourne) Beyond Telos and Totality: Immanent Critique as Selective Inheritance Geoffrey Kay Derivatives: 'Metaphysical Subtleties and Theological Niceties' Nick Dyer-Witheford (University of Western Ontario) Twenty-First Century Species-Being
Graduate panel:
Jeremy Cohan (NYU) What Marx really thought about class David Marjoribanks (Kent) Marxism and morality: out of the 'moral wilderness'? Caleb Basnett (York University, Toronto) Re-inventing the subject: Marx and ethics
£10 waged, £5 unwaged, payable at the door (provides annual membership of the society and entrance)
To reserve a place in advance please email: martin.mcivor@ alumni.lse. ac.uk Travel directions: http://www.ioe. ac.uk/sitehelp/ 1072.html Further details at: http://www.marxandp hilosophy. org.uk
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May 20, 2009 - Wednesday
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Category: News and Politics
The Rouge Forum Update – 20th May 2009 Rouge Forum Update: War, Decay and Sane Resistance! A Message from Rich Gibson Dear Friends
We will circulate a full report from the Rouge Forum Conference at Eastern Michigan University over the weekend. This is a very brief preliminary report from the student newspaper:
On the Education Front:
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/may/19/ca-special-election-051909/?california&zIndex=101745&dsq=9568515#comment-9568515
The California Teachers Association and NEA bosses wasted more than $12.2 million on their outrageous tax the poor scam that failed completely and, worse, managed to convince even more poor and working people that organized education workers are actually enemies. Nice work, CTA.
Meanwhile, UTLA managed to cower their way out of what was to be last Friday's mass walkout, fearful of a judge's order against it.
Everyone should be clear on this. The only illegal job action is one that fails. If thousands of teachers walked out, the judge would do nearly nothing, indeed nothing except try to fine CTA. So? CTA is not a bank and CTA members can picket judges' homes.
The Green Dot Takeover: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-greendot11-2009may11,0,3289443.story
Since UTLA and NEA have done so little to build a base among poor and working class parents and kids, and since AFT loves Green Dot, this plan to seize the school system is conceivable.
And it is another move from the LATimes to attack the rising militancy of the education workers who have a walkout scheduled this week. There are thoughtful and active alternatives to all this ... http://www.rougeforumconference.org/ Obama placed Bob Bobb, paid jointly by the Broad Foundation and the Detroit Public Schools, in charge of DPS. Then The One declared Detroit "Ground Zero," in the education wars. Bobb announced a plan to federalize DPS. Would that be a first? http://www.susanohanian.org/show_nclb_outrages.html?id=3621
On the Perpetual War Front (the education agenda is a war agenda):
Obamagogue To Cover up Torture Photos: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/white-house-wants-a-delay-in-the-release-of-detainee-photos/?hp
On the Fake Radicals Front:
Once the Weathermen were liberals (and police agents) with bombs. Terrorists who opposed the hard work that it takes to build a mass class conscious movement to transcend the system of capital. Now, they are just liberals without bombs. But, unlike Billy Ayers and the rest of the Weathermen, at least Mark Rudd admits he and his ganglet destroyed the Students for a Democratic Society on the eve of the biggest outpouring of mass action from 1950 on. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/books/review/Barrett-t.html
On the Organized Decay is an Element of Fascism Front:
Detroit Photo Essay: Who is next? http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/detroit-troubled-city
Neighbors Prevent Firefighters from Saving Detroit Drug Den: http://www.detnews.com/article/20090518/METRO01/905180378/Neighbors-harass-Detroit-fire-crews-fighting-blaze-at-drug-house
Foreclosures hit high in April
The troubling reality that fascism in the past has sometimes been a popular mass movement: The Third Reich at War:
On the "This is not, not, for sure, not a depression, it's ah, well, ahem," Front:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Rauch-t.html?ref=books
Tickled by the NYTimes reassurance that this is not, surely not, absolutely not, could not be, a GREAT depression, it's just a depression. And good time are right around the corner.
On the Unions Became What They Claimed to Set Out to Oppose Front:
You don't need to pay a union to surrender. You can throw up your hands and do that alone. Concessions do not save jobs. They just make bosses want more. The UAW is a prime example. When they say cut back, we should say, Fight Back!
The Torment and Demise of the United Auto Workers Union: http://clogic.eserver.org/2006/gibson.html
Unions are unfit to meet the crisis at hand. While it may be important to have one toe in a union in order to meet people and build a base for real change, it is equally important to have ten toes out of the union---in an organization that can connect reason, passion, and power. Like the Rouge Forum. Please spread the word. There is no single "Line" of the RF. We have many voices and many varying talents.
Here are the last two stanzas to the great workers' song Solidarity Forever:
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. We can break their haughty power; gain our freedom when we learn That the Union makes us strong.
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold; Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold. We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old For the Union makes us strong.
Well, the union didn't make us strong, but the rest is on the mark and the struggle continues.
Thanks to Joe Bishop and the Eastern Michigan volunteers, Adam and Gina, WayneO, Nancye, Patricia, Faith and Craig, Greg (whose speech will be up by the weekend), Pat B, Bill-Scott--the youths-and Marty, Paul, Cory, Connie, Travis, Roger, Doug S and Doug Y, Gil G (that book is terrific) Billy X, Donna, Sherry, Zena, Em, Candace, Rebecca, Sonia, Maria, Chris (what a long drive), Susan O and H, O and Ido and the baby, Steve and Perry for getting things going and you too Kevin and Marc, Michael who is a smart guy and good friend, the heroic Sergei and the secretaries, Jeremiah, The Uprising and Tainted Machine, Staughton Lynd who is a beacon of good sense, Marty G who should have been there, Big M, Bob and Tommie, and all who made the conference a delight.
Good luck to us, every one. Rich Gibson Posted here by Glenn Rikowski All that is Solid: http://rikowski.wordpress.com The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk The Ockress: http://www.theockress.com
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Constantin – Live at 229 Great Portland Street Constantin are an exciting new electro-pop band. They played their second live show at 229 Great Portland Street last Saturday. Gregory Rikowski was there for the show and has written a review of this excellent band’s performance. See: http://www.constantin.uk.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=34&Itemid=53 Constantin will be playing at the Water Rats, King’s Cross, London on 12th June. Gregory Rikowski’s blog, GREGSWORLD, is at: http://www.gregrikowski.blogspot.com Constantin’s web site is at: http://www.constantin.uk.com Gregory’s MySpace Profile is at: http://www.myspace.com/92945414 Constantin’s MySpace Profile is at: http://www.myspace.com/constantinspace Posted here by Glenn Rikowski All that is Solid: http://rikowski.wordpress.com The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk The Ockress: http://www.theockress.com
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