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Anarchy in the EU
(For same-titled book, check Agenzia X; it contains parts in English and a chromatology of european movements)
Forty-one years later, and the spirit, if not the fervour, of May 1968 lives on. Then, over a month of student-led protests and a general strike crippled France and popular Marxist revolution appeared a real possibility in a Western [...]
The Incomplete, True, Authentic and Wonderful History of MAY DAY
Peter Linebaugh, author of the invaluable The London Hanged the story of how capital punishment was used in England instill capitalist property norms in the English working class, wrote this history of Mayday in 1986 stressing the green and the red. Last year, he gave a talk on Mayday for the Bristol Radical History Group’s [...]
MayDay, MayDay, the Great Recession Deepens!
Japan down 12.7% minus one less drunk minister (Nakagawa), Germany -8.5%, Italy -7%, eurozone and sterlingzone both down 5.9%, France almost minus five, Obamerica -3.8%
This was annualization for 009 of last quarter of 008. but the Great Recession is gathering momentum and will end up be even worse than that. Germany and Italy will be [...]