nous les 99%

a centennial update with additions from long wave theory and Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation – Published on Linke Zeitung (left journal), by Ingo Schmidt, August 15, 2013.

The period of economic and political crises that began with the Wall Street crash in 2007 in many ways resembles the conditions of global capitalism at the time Rosa Luxemburg published her Accumulation of Capital. This article argues that Luxemburg’s political economy entails the theoretical tools necessary to understand capitalist development since the early 20th century and that capitalism indeed faces as great a crisis as it did at that time.   Continuer la lecture de « ROSA LUXEMBURG’S ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL »

Israel: The Raging Grannies Anti Occupation Club (no website found), uploaded by Ogniana Film, May 2013, different dates: All across Israel, the film accompanies 76-year old Hava and her friends – Full Movie Docs:

• in english, 88.49 min;

same film:  Continuer la lecture de « Raging Grannies … »

Published on Labour List.org, August 29, 2013 (see also our new blog: politics for the 99%).

Yesterday we asked you to have your say on how Labour MPs – and the Labour leadership – should act on Syria. 2676 of you have voted in the last 18 hours (our biggest ever response to a LabourList survey). Here are the results:   Continuer la lecture de « UK: LabourList readers want MPs to oppose Syria air strikes »

I received this link out of YouTube from a friend, 4.54 min.

Published on ZNet, by Bill Quigley, August 27, 2013.

Eight years after Katrina, nearly a hundred thousand people never got back to New Orleans, the city remains incredibly poor, jobs and income vary dramatically by race, rents are up, public transportation is down, traditional public housing is gone, life expectancy differs dramatically by race and place, and most public education has been converted into charter schools.  Continuer la lecture de « The Katrina Pain Index 2013: New Orleans Eight Years Later »