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N° 25. April 2011 (English)

Monday 28 March 2011 by CP

Lybia and the Holy Triumvirate, William Blum Sri lanka.The simulated politics of diaspora, Nirmala Rajasingam The Trials of Pinar Selek, Cynthia Cockburn Israel. The Genie is out of the Bottle, Uri Avnery’s Column Trade unions in Israel stand in Solidarity with the Egyptian popular (...)

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Barry David Horwitz

The American Dream Conspiracy. Cultural Critique in Tennessee William’s "A Streetcar Named Desire", Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman", and Edward Albee’s "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?" (2) (English)

Monday 28 March 2011 by CP

PART 2: The Critique of Late Imperialist Culture Why weren’t the material advantages coming from the post-war economic boom enough for the working and middle-class people depicted in Williams’, Miller’s and Albee’s plays? Perhaps the answer is obvious. Even Virginia Woolf, the English (...)

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Barry David Horwitz

The American Dream Conspiracy. Cultural Critique in Tennessee William’s "A Streetcar Named Desire", Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman", and Edward Albee’s "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1) (English)

Monday 28 March 2011 by CP

PART 1: The False Promises of the American Dream There was once a mythical and forgotten time in American history, when the U.S. government funded the arts, valued its writers and artists and dramatists, and allowed radical theaters like The Group Theater to flourish, and even, with (...)

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Asma Agbarieh-Zahalka

A Statement for International Women’s Day, March 8, 2011 (English)

Monday 28 March 2011 by CP

In these very days, marking 100 years of Women’s International Day, a new chapter is being written in history by millions of women and men in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and elsewhere. We salute the workers who first raised the banner of revolt in Egypt in 2008, who persisted and who (...)

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International Seminar.

War Profiteering and Peace Movement Responses (English)

30 September to 2 October 2011 Barcelona

Monday 28 March 2011 by WoHe

This seminar will bring together representatives from organisations from all over the world that campaign against different forms and aspects of war profiteering – the reaping of financial benefits from conflict and war – for three days of mutual learning and network building. The organisers (...)

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Christopher Fons

The War in Madison (English)

When the People Lead, Leaders Will Follow

Monday 28 March 2011 by CP

Day five and six in Madison and momentum continues to build as finally Milwaukee Public School teachers, the largest district in the state, called in sick en masse and shut down the district. The nation has now been inspired by Wisconsinites as they put their jobs on the line to defend the (...)

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Tom Eley and Andre Damon

Thousands in Wisconsin demonstrate against cuts (English)

Monday 28 March 2011 by CP

Over the past two days, thousands of workers in a number of cities and towns in Wisconsin have demonstrated against a bill backed by Governor Scott Walker that would force drastic pay cuts on nearly 175,000 state, local and university employees, and effectively outlaw their right to strike. (...)

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Howard Ryan

Wisconsin Labor Jams Capitol To Resist Governor’s Attacks (English)

Labor Notes

Monday 28 March 2011 by CP

Public employees filled the Wisconsin state Capitol after Governor Scott Walker announced legislation that could crush public employee unions. Walker asked the National Guard to be ready to handle disruptions.

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Kathy Kelly

Incalculable (English)

Drone warfare in Afghanistan

Monday 28 March 2011 by WoHe

Recent polls suggest that while a majority of U.S. people disapprove of the war in Afghanistan, many on grounds of its horrible economic cost, only 3% took the war into account when voting in the 2010 midterm elections. The issue of the economy weighed heavily on voters, but the war and its cost, though clear to them and clearly related to the economy in their thinking, was a far less pressing concern.

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Cécile Barbeito & Josep María Royo

The responsibility of the mobile phone industry in the war of the Democratic Republic of Congo (English)

Monday 28 March 2011 by WoHe

Coinciding with the celebration of the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona (Spain), several groups took action in order to raise awareness about coltan and its links with the electronics industry and the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).1

The World Mobile Congress, celebrated between the 14th and 17th of February, which 50,000 people attended, filling up 98% of the hotels in the city, is the most popular event linked to the mobile phone industry in the world.

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