Why we should be working fewer hours
by Ying Que. Cutting the workday from eight to four hours would not only solve the unemployment problem, but it…
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A darker shade of Orange – Studying in the Netherlands without the social state
by Maggie McSorley. Even though Maggie, an American scholarship kid in the Netherlands, would like to stay and build a…
The Sad State of Turkish Freedom
A short cultural en historical background of the current uprising in Turkey and a homage to Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet.
Video Greece: Production under worker’s control
“The workers at the Vio.Me. Factory in Thessaloniki, Greece have quickly grown into a symbol of self-management internationally. After going…
Horizontalism within and against Academia, Unions, and Non-Profits
Drawing on organizing experiences in Seattle and the University of Washington, Ariel speaks of tensions in horizontalist movements. Within the…
Update from Turkey
What follows is an impression from a fellow student/activist from Istanbul who is studying in the Netherlands. He describes how…
The Rebirth of the Chicago Teachers Union and Possibilities for a Counter-Hegemonic Education Movement
For nine days in September, Chicago belonged to the teachers, school paraprofessionals, and clinicians. On September 10, 2012, 26,000 members…
A critique of captial (1): The problem with economics
Hitherto philosophers have had the solution of all riddles lying in their writing-desks, and the stupid, exoteric world had only…
Students protest for holiday pay of outsourced workers
Students at the University of London today carried out a high-visibility publicity stunt at the heart of the University to…
Merkel Oprutte – Report from Nijmegen
On thursday 23rd of May German chancellor Angela Merkel received a honorary doctorate at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the…