Like Adam and lots of other cuts-aghast individuals, I think the riots are wholly unsurprising. Like Nina (also here), I see them as part of the political backlash against the inequality-producing liberal democratic state. They are not protests, but they are a hell of a lot more effective at hurting the government than the Millbank and [...]
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On the riots
Posted in Tory scum on August 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Towards redressing the negligence of this blog qua blog
Posted in Tory scum on March 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently I don’t tend this blog for its own sake anymore, and only post reviews/talks/notes I was writing on necessity anyway. It’s true. Well, here’s a brief Spring-time gesture towards redress. The old chestnut about human nature sliding to the right of the political spectrum over the course of a lifetime strikes me as one [...]
The Oxford Education Campaign occupies the Rad Cam. The University closes the Bodleian as a whole; the occupiers are under pressure. A call to rally around free education in the square.
Posted in education cuts, protest, revolution now, shock doctrine, Tory scum on November 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The occupiers of the “#RadicalCamera” (oh how this makes me happy) are using free education as a vehicle for their ideological battle against the neoliberal marketisation of higher education. Their Twitter account is @occupiedoxford, their website is http://occupiedoxford.org, and their Facebook profile is Rad Cam. They are maintaining the library, they are educating each other [...]
Women’s bloc @ #demo2010! Tweet-happy clown bloc of women’s resistance to the Tory cuts (including cuts to higher education) #oxuncut
Posted in feminism, festivals, revolution now, shock doctrine, Tory scum on November 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The women’s bloc is a clown bloc. At times we make sense, like this: 3/4 of those hit hardest by the government’s package will be women. Those paying for 66% of the cuts: women. Those received 23% less pay for the same work, nationally: women. Those worst affected by axed childcare: women. Those likely to [...]
the battle of Millbank, the media, and meaning it
Posted in campaigning, revolution now, shock doctrine, Tory scum on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lunatics, the limits of liberalism, and the terror of the Torygraph, have all come out of the woodwork since this Wednesday’s purposeful, systematic, and very much ‘mass’ (as opposed to ‘minority’) demolition of the Millbank building, the Conservative HQs that is owned by tax-evading property tycoons (the Reuben bros). The very gifted and wonderful LMW [...]
Just a thought, tweeps: before denouncing “criminal damage”, “violence” and “bad apple” protestors at the #demo2010 march in London today, maybe get a grip on what violence really is?
Posted in campaigning, Queer politics, revolution now, shock doctrine, Tory scum on November 10, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Here are a few things I think are violent: global capitalism with its human face; bailing out banks; investing in war; chipping away civil liberties; chipping away at the welfare state; the state (welfare or otherwise); advertising; the symbolic imposition of “the big society” idea upon people’s understanding of themselves; the way dreams and ideals [...]
Posted in revolution now, shock doctrine, Tory scum on November 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Oxford Education Campaign began in a living room from the spore of one shared student household’s nausea and fury in response to the Browne Review. It was my living room, and I am proud, though (having prior commitments up to my eyeballs to the feminism festival touched on below) I was not the catalyst. [...]
Passionlessness: talk to me about how you don’t care, about your silently majoritary position, about the state of your hair
Posted in culture, Queer politics, revolution now, shock doctrine, Tory scum on November 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Passionlessness, or apathy, is partly – as David Meslin says in his TedX redefinition of the concept – engineered by our media of engagement. We allow our passions to be engaged by ephemera, and it is the trivial projects which attempt to engage us: entertainment coverage always comes with its ‘how to attend’ data prominently [...]
We don’t really have a choice. It’s war, now.
Posted in campaigning, revolution now, shock doctrine, Tory scum on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re not out setting fire to something, you’re not paying attention * My housemate Beth thinks a few people giving a damn is almost worse than none giving a damn at all. Because it looks so pathetic. The privatisation of the entire universe is getting me down: sometimes, emerging from the depression, I actually come [...]
The right is just wrong and moreover they’re burning the world
Posted in culture, Tory scum on September 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Of all the appalling Tory gloating we must face in this post-apocalyptic Coalition world, the Torygraph blogosphere’s latest has got to be the worst. I don’t know if I want you to read it or not. The force of its gynophobic, racist, anti-poor free-market evil-mongering is almost overpowering. I’m worried my bile is making me [...]
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- Those speculating were huddled by the auctioneer's desk trying to haggle over crisis-stricken families' houses amid the beautiful din #o4o ~ 2 weeks ago
- Waiting now for nine arrestees at today's o4o sing-along-auction-blockade to be released at (cont) http://t.co/6gl6SUiL ~ 2 weeks ago
- #o4o action in Brooklyn Supreme Court kicked off just now, to resist banks' foreclosing on people's (cont) http://t.co/80aPmWLO ~ 2 weeks ago
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