Monthly Archives: May 2013

David Harvey’s Porto Alegre Lecture on ‘A Companion to Marx’s Capital, Volume 1′ in Porto Alegre

“David Harvey visited Brazil for an international seminar on Marx. This is the lecture he gave in Porto Alegre on March 15, 2013 on the publication of the Brazilian edition of his “A Companion to Marx’s Capital, Volume 1″, by Boitempo. With activities extending through three months and six Brazilian cities, the seminar featured Slavoj […]

Muammar Gaddafi and Hugo Chavez in Gaddafi's Bedouin Tent

Recollections of my life: Mu’ummar Qaddafi

An oft-uttered phrase regarding the world’s dominant system of global operation, capitalism, since at least the days of Margaret Thatcher is, “There is no alternative.”  That, of course, is a lie and uttered only by regressive individuals that seek to preserve the private privilege, wealth and profit of the few, attributes obtained through ongoing oppression […]

Eton Rifles – What chance have you got against a tie and a crest?

In 2011 the King’s Scholarship application ‘General Paper’ form for the ‘elite’ Eton school asked 13-year old boys to imagine being Prime Minister in 2040 (they even got the age/timing about right, coincidentally) and writing a speech to justify as “necessary” and “moral” deploying the army to shoot protesters dead. (c) The year is 2040. There […]