Category

capitalism

This category page shows short summaries - with pictures, music and video removed. Click the post title if you want to see the whole lot.

• Saturday 2 May 2009

  may day protests

  This is France. The BBC has a slideshow of May Day protests around the world, mainly focused on the economic crisis. The police look the same everywhere…
  Diam’s offers a take on France here – one that’s multiracial and anti-Sarko. If you want a rough translation drop me a line. But your French may be better [...]

  posted by red at 1:58 am in capitalism, class, resistance | 1 comment

• Tuesday 21 April 2009

  who built the city?

  A comment on the Brecht poem in this post reminded me about thoughts that sometimes cross my mind when I’m wandering around London looking at the buildings. Like in the City, where there are many big old buildings and some impressive new ones too.
  They were built by slaves.
  I don’t mean that the people who put [...]

  posted by red at 12:43 am in capitalism, class, racism | 3 comments

• Wednesday 15 April 2009

  don’t hold your breath

  It’s budget day next Wednesday. The budget is late this year. That’s because the government hasn’t got a clue what to do about the plunging economy, has lost count of its bailouts and now thinks a bank statement is a bit of paper that comes in the post once a month to show how many [...]

  posted by red at 11:47 pm in capitalism, class, government | 6 comments

• Monday 13 April 2009

  a pair of boots

  I hopped on the bus yesterday to see this at the Whitechapel Gallery. It is the tapestry version of Picasso’s Guernica, made by weaver Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach in 1955.
  I’ve never seen the 1937 original painting, which Picasso made in response to the devastating arial bombardment on the town of Guernica – by [...]

  posted by red at 11:54 pm in anti-war, capitalism, class, culture, resistance | 6 comments