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Rally for Marriage Equality in Portland, Oregon

Submitted by Eviction Free Zone on Mar 27 2013 04:45

Though there have been many appropriate criticisms of the recent discussion of marriage equality and the focus on liberal organizations like the Human Rights Campaign, the challenge to Proposition 8 in front of the U.S. Supreme Court has mobilized a mass of people to speak out and get organized. Organized by Basic Human Rights Oregon, the rally in support of marriage equality drew hundreds in front of the federal court house. Marriage equality is not the endgame of fighting heterosexism, but it can stand as a marker for those who are organizing more largely to challenge homophobia on an institutional level.

Time and its discontents - John Zerzan

Essay tracing the rise of the clock over the concept of time, and the possibilities of a world without watches or work.

The dimension of time seems to be attracting great notice, to judge from the number of recent movies that focus on it, such as Back to the Future, Terminator, Peggy Sue Got Married, etc. Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time (1989) was a best-seller and became, even more surprisingly, a popular film.

Anarchy (1891) - Errico Malatesta

Malatesta's best known work, a pamphlet on what anarchism means.

Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, “without government”: the state of a people without any constituted authority.

The grit beneath the glitter: tales from the real Las Vegas - Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis

Series of articles and perspectives on how Sin City became one of the most unionised cities in the USA today, and those that have made up the membership.

Part 2

An Investigation of This Supposedly Victorious Capitalism, Considered with Regard to Some of Its Political, Social and Ideological Aspects – Claude Bitot

Part 2

Foreword

Part 1

An Investigation of This Supposedly Victorious Capitalism – Claude Bitot

Preface to the Spanish Edition

An investigation of this supposedly victorious capitalism - Claude Bitot

In Part 1 of this book originally published in France in 1995, Claude Bitot addresses capitalism’s imminent contradictions from the perspective of Marx’s theory of the falling rate of profit and in the context of the role of automation, rising productivity and relocations since the crisis of the 1970s, and concludes that capitalism has entered a stage of permanent crisis he defines as “the end of its cycle”; in Part 2, he discusses some of the ideological and social consequences of this crisis that signal the definitive decline of the republican and secular values that characterized the rise of the nation state in the springtime and maturity of capitalism.