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Issue 1: Occupy Everything

Issue 1: Occupy Everything

Class composition of Occupy • The first two weeks of Occupy Philly • The Arab Spring and global finance • Oakland and its insurrectionary history • Purto Rican higher education and the student strike • Hip-hop and revolutionary practice • The labor movement and the future of Occupy • Translations of Cornelius Castoriadis and Anton Pannekoek

The Prince and the Pauper

Everyone on the left has pointed out that the riots in London are rooted in capital’s assault on the working class, couched in the ideological language of austerity – and that this was the kindling sparked by the racist police brutality that culminated in the murder of Mark Duggan. But our task – like Marx’s task, when he defended the violent upheaval of the Silesian weavers – isn’t to give a moral evaluation of the riots, like schoolmasters diligently stacking the pros against the cons, but, rather, to grasp their specific character.