What in the hell …

A friend of mine is looking for slogans and stuff involving a general strike. I’m not aware of any, except the Precarias a la Deriva counterquestion to the Spanish general strike … in 2002? 2003? …. which was called by a big union or unions but left las precarias out, the counterquestion being “what is your strike?” I did some looking, though, and here’s what I came up with. (more…)

I feel nervous about my younger brothers sometimes, often the same times that I feel proud of them. (more…)

More notes, as always. Incidentally, anyone know of any material on the IWW in Spanish or in Portuguese? Or, know of where I can look other than google? (more…)

A Spanish language publishing group. They put out great stuff and put out most of it as PDF plus print. So, if there’s any Spanish speakers out there, check it out. In particular, folk who speak Spanish but not Italian and who are interested in operaismo and post-operaismo stuff (major market here, eh?), will be interested in available stuff by Lazzarato, Virno, Balestrini, and others. See the catalog (with links to PDFs) here.

I’ve puzzled about this a lot (more…)

I read this article on the advice that it would help me make an argument I’m working on regarding the Middle Ground. Turns out the article is more relevant to my interests than the Middle Ground is by far. (more…)

Notes on Richard White, _The Middle Ground_ and William Cronon, _Changes in the Land_. (more…)

Or rather, what does Marx’s writing accomplish. Some notes written a while ago, written in part as a sort of writing exercise, and which I must admit to being embarassed about (more…)