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hydrarchist writes: " This translation is the work of Ed Emery.
The following is a contribution by Toni Negri to a meeting in 2001 at
the
Literature Faculty of the La Sapienza university, organised by the
group
Laboratorio Sapienza Pirata. The Italian text was circulated on the
Multitudes-Infos discussion list. I have translated it in order to
bring it
to a wider audience.
Globalisation.... Multitude etc.
"I feel uncomfortable when people talk about the birth of the
globalised
world simply as a kind of effect, a given, an expansion of the empire
that
was left [after the disappearance of the USSR].
"Globalisation, which really begins to lift off in 1989, doesn't happen
simply by the outward spreading of one empire when another empire
disappears. It is born of far deeper roots. Globalisation is the point
of
confluence of working class and proletarian struggles which could no
longer
be regulated within the confines of the nation State. The dynamic which
consisted of struggles - creation of inflation - balancing of state
budgets - pressure on welfare - breaking of the material elements of
the
bourgeois constitution, led gradually to two things: first, a theory of
the
limits of democracy (and strangely here we find that same Huntington
who
wrote about the "clash" of civilisations in a document of the
Trilateral
Commission back in the 1970s), and then a powerful push towards going
beyond
the nation State.
Mira Jovanovich writes:
"Yellow Overalls Must Rise! (in order to lay down again)
TFG Casper, former member of dissolved NYC Ya Basta! Collective
Part One.
By Mira Jovanovich
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MJ: I'm wondering if you can give us a little background on Ya Basta and the yellow overalls, as it has played out here in North America.
TFGC: The New York City Ya Basta! Collective formed just a few weeks after the pictures and stories from the protests in Prague [IMF meetings, Sept 2000] were transmitted across the Atlantic. Like many people inspired by these communications, we were interested in understanding the dynamics of this relatively new and somewhat poetic tactic of civil disobedience, and attempted, as far as possible, to gather intelligence on the efforts of the "tute bianche". We had the fortunate privilege of having an Italian activist as a member of our local collective, one who was more than familiar with the developments of the white overalls and the Ya Basta Association, specifically as things evolved in cities like Milan and Genoa. We received greatly informed reports as developments would happen.
hydrarchist writes: ""First ever for slash.autonomedia.org: A video link!
Listen to Eben Moglen, General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation, convey some very bad news to those who love property! History hasn't gone away you see.
Incendiary, portentuous, and funny. A Fifty five minute prsentation: real video and quicktime formats.
http://www.ibiblio.org/moglen/
This is also a serious lecture on economics and reflection on anarchist production and distribution, historical in scope: from music to software and the problem of property... Can technology be the means to overcome alienation?
If the above description is not enough to have you salivate, here are the first lines of the lecture:
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A spectre is haunting multinational capitalism -- the spectre of free information. All the powers of globalism have entered into an unholy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Microsoft and Disney, the World Trade Organization, the United States Congress and the European Commission.
Where are the advocates of freedom in the new digital society who have not been decried as
pirates, anarchists, communists?
Have we not seen that many of those hurling the epithets were merely thieves in power, whose talk of intellectual property was
merely an attempt to retain unjustifiable priveliges in a world irrevocably changing?
But it is acknowledged by all powers of globalism
that the movement for freedom is itself a power.
And it is high time that the movement for
freedom should publish our views in the face of the whole world
to meet this nursery tale of the spectre of free information with a manifesto of our own.
That's where it begins....."
hydrarchist writes:
"Few movements are as randomly characterised in contempoary political discussion as Autonomia or 'autonomism'. Whilst the term has recently become synonymous with the historical trajectory of Toni Negri, and the origins of the White Overall movement in particular, it is important to understand that historically Autonomia Operaia was composed of divergent practices, strategies and organisational models. Sergio Bologna played a key role during the 'golden era' of the Italian Movement and represents a tendency quite distinct from that of Negri. This little distributed interview from 1995 illustrates some of these differences. If readers find this piece interesting or useful, or in general believe that such a redistribution of historical materials is worthwhile, please let us know in the comments section.
This interview was opriginally published in the online journal of the Italian department of Swansea, Wales, named Movimento, accessible at http://www.swan.ac.uk/italian/movimento/mov1/nowpa ge/archivio.htm
The author, Patric Cunninghame also wrote the historical review of autonomia published on slash some weeks ago, The Future at Our Backs.
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After the movie theatres had record crowds during the projections
of the movie, Robocop, years ago, for a short time one of the TV
networks broadcast a series of shows in which the protagonist was
the famous anti-crime character from the movie.
It all remains circumscribed in the sphere of the projections of
science fiction. Fortunately, it is unthinkable, for us poor mortals,
that the creation of a cybernetic police officer could happen. We turn
off the TV and sleep peacefully, some a little worried, some
comforted by the existence by the existence, however improbable,
of a weapon of this kind.
The TV series goes on so that without even thinking about it , we
find ourselves wrapped up in the adventures of this pile of scrap
metal.
When a well-known daily newspaper communicates the
realization of a cybernetic human, with an article accompanied by
the photo of Robocop, we are no longer particularly disturbed,
because that figure is so familiar to us since we have become so
habituated to the televised hammering on the subject.
Finance and Economics after the Dotcom Crash
Interview with Doug Henwood
By Geert Lovink
Doug Henwood is one of the few marxist economists whose opinions and
analyses of the world of finance and trade are being taken serious by the
mainstream media. Seen as a toy rebel Wall Street analysts love to hate him.
Doug is very friendly and open, quite the opposite of what you may fear
dogmatic revolutionaries turned crusty academics look like. Unlike most of
his comrades Henwood is able to remain in dialogue with his liberal and
conservative opponents. In public debates he can surprise you with his
marvelous negative dialectics. Online he is sharp, short and precise.
In an interview with salon.com,Doug Henwood described his position as such:
"Wall Street is populated by some of the most cynical, greedy bastards on
earth. But it's not enough just to say that. The last thing I want to do is
sound like a guy on a soapbox moralizing. It's not their personal moral
characteristics that create the system they populate. Capitalism is
essentially an amoral system based on exploitation. And Wall Street is part
of the class struggle, to use an unfashionable term. But most people don't
realize this, so the market looks incomprehensible to them."
NOT BORED writes: Comments on "The Relevance of Antonio Negri to the Anti-Globalization Movement"
[Ed. "NOT BORED! is an anarchist, situationist-inspired, low-budget, irregularly published, photocopied journal http://www.notbored.org/index1.html]
We here at NOT BORED! received a large number of responses to our essay
"The Relevance of Antonio Negri to the Anti-Globalization Movement," in
part because it was re-printed by a popular anarchist website as well as
posted to a couple of sites associated with the Independent Media Center, for which the
essay was originally written. Most of these responses were highly critical.
The essay was taken to task for basing all of its positions on a handful of
old and obscure situationist pamphlets, for discouraging people from
reading Negri & Hardt's book Empire, and for conflating Negri's "communism"
with the "Communism" of the Italian Communist Party, among other things.
YellowTimes.ORG writes: "
By Matt Osborne
YellowTimes.ORG Columnist
(YellowTimes.ORG) -- Are you having trouble figuring out which is the real America?
On the one hand, we’re the most moral and kind-hearted nation on Earth. We give more to private charity than any other people anywhere. On the other hand, we’re responsible for all sorts of wickedness in all sorts of places.
Well, here’s a tip: watch The Wizard of Oz!
For all the sweetness and silliness, L. Frank Baum actually wrote the book as a satirical examination of the American character.
Louis Lingg writes: "CounterPunch has posted the following interview with Norman Finkelstein (author of The Holocaust Industry):
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
By Don Atapattu
Professor Norman Finkelstein is one of a dying breed of American mavericks that relentlessly defies any attempt at easy categorization. He is the son of Holocaust survivors but an unremitting critic of Holocaust reparation claims; a Jew but is a life-long anti Zionist; and though very much a Leftist, he is often praised by far Right revisionists of the Third Reich, such as Hitler-admiring historian David Irving. He initially made his name by revealing Joan Peter's massively successful From Time Immemorial (a book heavily promoted by the Israeli lobby, that claimed there were no native Arabs before Zionist immigration into Palestine), as a colossal fraud, and for 10 years he was a Professor of Political Science at New York University.
YellowTimes.ORG writes: "
By Christopher Reilly
YellowTimes.ORG Journalist
(YellowTimes.ORG) – The Bush administration has been completely hypocritical in its attempts to stop terror groups. The US president announced to CNN that he would be cracking down on financiers of the radical Palestinian group Hamas; however, he completely failed to mention Saudi Arabia and other “moderate” gulf states as being financial and verbal supporters of the Palestinian terror group.
CNN reported yesterday that the president “froze the U.S. assets of a Texas-based Islamic foundation…alleging that the organization acts as a front to finance the militant wing of the Palestinian group Hamas.”
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