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from libcom via mw, updated 12 March 2010: "Battle Ground Athens: Second general strike leads to pitched battles... More than 150,000 people took to the streets of Athens against the austerity measures in a mass protest march that has led to extended battles in the Greek capital.

On Thursday March 11 all of Greece came to a 24 hour standstill as a result of the second general strike to be called within less than a month (not the third as reported by foreign media, as the first strike in February only concerned the public sector)..." more

from email, 9 March 2010: "A weekend of workshops, discussions and socialising for everyone with an interest in radical autonomous social centres. How can a new generation of social centres learn from the successes and failures of established ones? What are the ways in which we can best face up to the challenges.." more

from independent, 24 February 2010: "A wave of industrial and social unrest is building across Europe as workers resist attempts by governments and private companies to impose austerity policies, drive down wages and rescue some nations from near-bankruptcy. Huge protest rallies took place in cities across Spain last night; today a general strike could paralyse Greece while industrial action at French airports and oil plants as well as the narrowly averted stoppage at Germany's Lufthansa promise to be just the start of the greatest demonstration of public unrest seen on the continent since the revolutionary fervour of 1968..." more

from occupied london, 12 February 2010: "It’s been making headlines the world over: the greek economy is in crisis, the times call for unity, the nation is in trouble, there is a debt lingering and this is somewhat a “national” one as well. What an image: the revolted of December 2008 to be showing the way of obedience, succumbing to austerity plans, to the economists’ expertise..." more

from freedom, 13 January 2010: "Workers at the car part manufacturers who won a momentous battle for redundancy payment from Ford motor giants last year are still locked in a bitter dispute with their ex-employers over money owed through the pension fund after the collapse of Visteon UK..." more

from climate-imc, 26 November 2009: "Until recently, many of the globe's biggest corporations were firmly in the climate change denial camp - and funding spurious research to back up their claims. Now a new realism has emerged. Climate change is no longer rejected as a bogus theory the economy can ill afford. Instead, it's a business opportunity..." more

from crimethinc, 24 September 2009: "This was written the night of September 24, immediately following the events described, without time to verify all the reports summarized or assemble additional information. There may be errors; if so, we will correct them shortly.

This is on-the-spot reporting just in from the first day of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, which has seen a great deal of spirited resistance and confrontation—perhaps as much as has occurred at any anarchist mobilization in North America in half a decade. This gushy, hastily composed account presents the context, attempts to convey the spirit of the day, and raises a few preliminary questions..." more

from OL, 13 August 2009: "In “The Rise of the Network Society” you provide a portrait of the new political economy of the globalisation of sovereignty. There, you suggest that in the 1990s there were a number of institutional shifts which lifted the barriers set in the 1930s and 1940s as a response to the 1929 depression. These shifts evidently comprised a cornerstone of the neoliberal, free market project… But could they also be signaling the beginning of its end? more

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