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The Unresolved Past
Yesterday I took a trip to the idyllic Castello di Rivoli to the west of Turin with my friend Andrea. We discussed the film Romanzo di una strage, which I discussed in an earlier post. Andrea filled me...
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Socialism or Barbarism
Occupation by a fascist or imperialist power is perhaps one of the most common experiences of the last century. This is certainly true of Italy, which endured nearly two decades of fascist rule,...
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Back to the Big Apple
Italy was really great, but it’s so good to be back in NYC! Today I walked through Union Square, which is filled with tables distributing information for Occupy May Day. There’s a very exciting series...
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May Day Reborn!
The Occupy Movement has revived May Day. For far too many years, this holiday, which was of course also a solidarity-building occasion, has been ignored by the US labor movement. Ironic, given the fact...
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Cities in Conflict
With the ongoing uprisings in Cairo and other cities in the Arab world, the role of cities as crucibles for social transformation and conflict is clearer than ever. Urban dwellers across the globe are...
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The Right to Heal
Last night I attended an event at the Brecht Forum to commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The event featured Yanar Mohammed, President of the Organization of Women’s...
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What We Communists Want
Following on my last post concerning the danger of reproducing the dismal logic of contemporary capitalism in representations of uneven development, this morning I began thinking about the question of...
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Old King Coal
Coal is the big dirty secret of our time. When we turn on our sleekly designed iPads and MacBooks, we seldom consider that the energy used to power these totems of the global economy is derived from...
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Occupy Sandy and Emerging Forms of Social Organization
I recently attended a forum organized by New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge. The topic was “Occupy Sandy and Emerging Forms of Social Organization.” The organizers described the event...
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Always at War
Dossier on Perpetual War, edited by Patricia Clough and Sandra Trappen, just published on the Social Text website. The dossier reminds us that the War on Terror has normalized a state of perpetual war,...
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Revolutionary Grace
What might revolutionary grace look like? How can we snatch radical egalitarianism from the jaws of authoritarianism? In what visions of the past can we find the resources to make a just future? These...
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Free Speech Zones
As heads of state from around the world descend on South Africa to memorialize Nelson Mandela and the struggle against apartheid, it’s worth asking how free we are today to challenge state power, as...
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Climate Wake Up Call from the Establishment
The political and economic establishment in the United States has finally woken up to the threats posed by climate change. In a new report, appropriately entitled Risky Business, members of the...
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Fossil Free
The campaign to divest from fossil fuels continues to pick up steam on campuses around the US and throughout the rest of the world. Only days ago the Norwegian parliament voted to divest its country’s...
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