PM Press Latest Blogs http://www.pmpress.org/content/index.php?topic=bl Feed of latest blog entries from PM Press Copyright 2012 PM Press GeekLog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:51:27 -0800 en-gb What would Karl do? Part 3: Radicals reflect on the current incarnation of global capital http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131224800823 Sasha Lilley http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131224800823 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:48:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131224800823#comments PM Press Blogs The final installment of a two week long Inkwell interview with Sasha Lilley about Capital and Its Discontents, headed up by broadcaster Angie Coiro. Liberal Citizenship or "Jewish Identity"? http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131002418589 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131002418589 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:24:18 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120131002418589#comments PM Press Blogs an erudite critique of identity politics Who determines what is a victory? http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012013100125146 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012013100125146 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:12:51 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2012013100125146#comments PM Press Blogs The distance between revolutionaries and reformers is greater... Letter to Boston Occupy the T http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120121747222 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120121747222 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:17:47 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120121747222#comments PM Press Blogs DID SLAVES PAY FOR THE COST OF THEIR TRANSPORTATION FROM THEIR HOMES TO THE FIELDS What life is all about http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120025821771 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120025821771 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:58:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120120025821771#comments PM Press Blogs i wish there was a raised-fist emoticon we could type out... The IWW: Some Lessons for Occupy http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120118022601284 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120118022601284 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:26:01 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120118022601284#comments PM Press Blogs The IWW included people who were briefly active in great strikes as well as those who dedicated their lives to the cause of revolution. The Anarchist Hypothesis, or Badiou, Žižek, and the Anti-Anarchist Prejudice http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116080727615 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116080727615 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:07:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116080727615#comments PM Press Blogs This essay was written in the summer of 2011 after Slavoj Žižek sported a Lenin T-shirt during his talk with Amy Goodman and Julian Assange in London. The talk was held on July 2, 2011, and hosted by the Frontline Club. Against Pragmatism: King and Obama Are Polar Opposites http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116012916149 Barry Graham http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116012916149 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:29:16 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120116012916149#comments PM Press Blogs Obama would have shaken hands with the Klan Žižek: Too Clever by Half http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120114001603605 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120114001603605 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:16:03 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120114001603605#comments PM Press Blogs I forced myself to listen to an hour-and-half talk Slavoj Žižek made in Tel Aviv this past June. Still more on Business As Usual http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120113125436389 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120113125436389 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:54:36 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120113125436389#comments PM Press Blogs One passage struck me as especially valuable, but also difficult. More on BUSINESS AS USUAL http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120111123423932 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120111123423932 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:34:23 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120111123423932#comments PM Press Blogs Much of what you quote is a very readable statement of the labor theory of value. Paul Mattick’s Business As Usual http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120108063514137 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120108063514137 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:35:14 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120108063514137#comments PM Press Blogs a short, comparatively accessible attempt to explain the current economic crisis Dead Iraqis New Occupiers of Wall Street http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120105065616686 Susie Day http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120105065616686 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:56:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120105065616686#comments PM Press Blogs NEW YORK CITY -  With the war in Iraq now officially over and the Occupy Wall Street movement less visible, life in New York was expected to return to normal. Instead, several recent passersby in Manhattan’s financial district have repo... Grassroots Football: Values, Examples, Potentials http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120104092654635 Gabriel Kuhn http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120104092654635 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:26:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120104092654635#comments PM Press Blogs "At its core, grassroots football shares many principles with grassroots organizing, championed in many alternative and progressive circles: self-management, horizontal organizing, anti-commercialism, a strong community base, etc. Grassroots ... The Communist Hypothesis http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120103025438971 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120103025438971 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:54:38 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20120103025438971#comments PM Press Blogs The only form of government that has ever worked, at least since the days of the Iroquois, is the benevolent dictatorship... Memories of Yemen: A Brooklyn Tale http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111229011352758 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111229011352758 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:13:52 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111229011352758#comments PM Press Blogs May you have success in your struggle, my class brothers! Notes on Surrealism & the Revolution of Everyday Life http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111228040732294 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111228040732294 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:07:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111228040732294#comments PM Press Blogs Unemployed, depressed, don't know what to do next? WORK FULL-TIME! Men and women needed NOW to work on Occupy Everything! No pay; possible great future. Behind the Euro Crisis http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111226135934370 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111226135934370 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 13:59:34 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111226135934370#comments PM Press Blogs Germany Gambles on the Old Dream of European Hegemony Talk at Zuccotti Park: video link and text http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111215224602535 George Katsiaficas http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111215224602535 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:46:02 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111215224602535#comments PM Press Blogs Here in the church they call Wall Street...http://youtu.be/8i5VFZqbmkE Civil Liberties and the 1981 Brink's Case: A 1991 `Downtown' Inquiry' (Part 1) http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111215185034370 David Gilbert http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111215185034370 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:50:34 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111215185034370#comments PM Press Blogs “If Justice travels for ten years, she will never find shelter in the castles of the powerful.” (an old Russian proverb) Race and Occupy http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111210133353761 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111210133353761 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:33:53 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111210133353761#comments PM Press Blogs Talk I gave at Occupy Boston, November 12, transcribed and edited. What is a Paper? http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111209135611516 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111209135611516 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:56:11 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111209135611516#comments PM Press Blogs So I am really lost for the final paper. New Model Army Breaks Camp http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111209062641861 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111209062641861 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:26:41 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111209062641861#comments PM Press Blogs Report from Occupy Boston Disguises I Have Worn: Why Subterfuge Is Necessary for Investigative Journalism http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111206161959526 Barry Graham http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111206161959526 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:19:59 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111206161959526#comments PM Press Blogs There are times when a journalist has to lie to find out the truth... Finkelstein at Occupy Boston http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2011120103252123 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2011120103252123 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:25:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2011120103252123#comments PM Press Blogs One of the most miserable performances I have ever witnessed OCCUPY WALL STREET’S INNER-PEACE OFFICERS http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111130042945148 Susie Day http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111130042945148 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:29:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111130042945148#comments PM Press Blogs Although the Occupy Movement has galvanized about 87% of the marginalized 99%, no one stops to think that it’s the police who help to make this possible. If cops hadn’t arrested over hundreds of peaceful marchers, busted heads, and pep... Publishers Weekly Review of ". . . Love and a Molotov . . . " http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2011112912054429 John Imani http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2011112912054429 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:05:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/2011112912054429#comments PM Press Blogs Publishers Weekly:  "less well-known authors . . . make solid contributions." Effective Self-Defense Includes Never Talking to Cops http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111120175016797 Barry Graham http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111120175016797 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:50:00 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111120175016797#comments PM Press Blogs Don't talk to cops, and don't let them inside your home. The New Realism: Voyage of an Epigraph from Paris to Oakland http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111120135139200 Clifton Ross http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111120135139200 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:51:39 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111120135139200#comments PM Press Blogs In those heady early days of the Oakland Commune when the little village of newly-dubbed “Oscar Grant Plaza” was being set up, an old comrade who had been part of the early organizing of the occupation was walking through the village a... The Clearing of Zuccotti Park http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111115082332814 Noel Ignatiev http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111115082332814 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:23:32 -0800 http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20111115082332814#comments PM Press Blogs Phase one has ended. Phase two will pose new tasks.