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The Desert and the Oasis: May Day in New York
By Ben Webster and Daniel Marcus May Day was a gamble for Occupy Wall Street, and a necessary one. Instead of heralding a national renewal, springtime has found Occupy short of ideas and running on...
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Lifeboat Communism – A Review of Franco “Bifo” Berardi’s After the Future
“Young people will have to get used to the idea of not having a fixed job for life… what monotony! It is much nicer to change and accept new challenges.” – Mario Monti, Italian Prime Minister “The...
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All Tomorrow’s Parties: A Reply to Critics
Though my article “The Actuality of the Revolution” centered on Lenin and 1917, it was really about the present. I think this became clearer as the debate on the article progressed, encompassing...
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What Can Quebec Teach Us? A Preliminary Analysis of the University as a Site...
Though the basic course of events in Quebec over the past several months has been widely reported, I want to address two questions that might be of greater interest to those struggling in and around...
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The Revolution of Living Knowledge
by Gigi Roggero We’re living in a revolutionary situation. We could reformulate the classical definition in the following terms: the ruling elites of global capital cannot live as in the past; the...
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Translating the Assembly: Student Organizing Beyond Quebec
by Elise Thorburn It took a little while for the student struggle in Quebec to gain traction with activists outside of the province. The strike began in February, but it probably wasn’t until late...
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Before the Fall: Possible Futures for Anti-Austerity Movements
by Amanda Armstrong We’re passing through a low phase in Northern California – a lull that partially parallels those facing organizers from Madison to New York. The rebellious energies so evident...
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Mexico en Verano
by Pat Cabell On July 1st, 2012, the day of Mexico’s recent presidential election, I visited the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, hoping to encounter a painting by Remedios Varo. A surrealist...
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Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo: Hugo Chávez (1954-2013)
by Donald V. Kingsbury The news from Caracas has not been promising for some time. The leader of the Bolivarian Revolution had not been seen since early December, when he travelled to Cuba to undergo...
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Do You Know the $8.25 Man?
by James Cersonsky The $8.25 man, Bloomberg News wrote in December, has worked at McDonald’s for twenty years. Still, he can’t get forty hours a week or anything more than minimum wage. He can’t make...
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All Things Colonized: A Review of Jared Ball’s I Mix What I Like
by Gavin Mueller What do Ira Glass and Jean-Marie Le Pen have in common? To follow the argument of Jared Ball’s recent book I Mix What I Like, they both represent a counter-insurgency against colonized...
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Dead Generations and Unknown Continents: Reflections on Left Unity
by Salar Mohandesi In 1881, just two years before his death, the ailing Karl Marx received a letter from a young socialist, Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, asking for his opinion about the call to...
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Brazilian Revolt: An Interview with Giuseppe Cocco
by Patrícia Fachin Translated by Liz-Mason Deese Portuguese | Spanish There were massive social demonstrations of discontent with politics and economics in the East, in Spain, Wall Street. Now they...
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No Police, No Problem: Personal Testimony of a Protester from Turkey
by E. Çetin Gürer As I started writing from Tarlabasi, Istanbul, the police were fortifying Taksim Square to prevent peaceful protesters from entering. They were there to protest the release of the...
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The Facebook Rebels and the Brazilian Favelas
by Roberto Saba On the sixteenth of April, 1984 the final demonstration of the Diretas Já campaign brought one and a half million Brazilians into the streets of São Paulo. The phrase “I want to vote...
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Further Letters Between Cornelius Castoriadis and Anton Pannekoek
These two letters represent a continuation of the correspondence between Cornelius Castoriadis and Anton Pannekoek, translated in our first issue with a historical introduction. Another analysis of...
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New Site, and a Preview
The Viewpoint website has been redesigned, thanks to the excellent work of Peter Rood, and the illustrations of Steven Zambrano Cascante. We’re still ironing out some kinks, so bear with us; if you...
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Issue 3: Workers’ Inquiry
Issue 3: Workers’ Inquiry INTRODUCTION Workers’ Inquiry: A Genealogy | Asad Haider and Salar Mohandesi In 1880, La Revue socialiste asked an aging Karl Marx to draft a questionnaire to be circulated...
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Who Are They and Who Are We? Aspects of the Counterrevolution in Tunisia
eL Seed, 2012. During the Tunisian revolution in January 2011, my husband and I finally decided on a name for our second daughter, who was to be born that summer. We named her Amel, which means “hope”...
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