Day X4, Les Événements in a kettled democracy
Is there a whiff of the Commune in London's air? Or at least as a Newsnight journalist has just said 'a hint of the poll tax'? While Edinburgh's NUS leadership approved 'candlelit vigil' at the...
View ArticleHorowitz - Minimalist works from the holocaust museum
One of the boons of Frozen Boring's Travel Cliche is the opportunity to visit things for which you wouldn't normally have the time. If you are, as perhaps you may be, looking to kill half an hour near...
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Tunisian Revolution: Twilight of the Jumlukes?
Every revolution, Marx remarked, begins with flowers. It is rather gratifying then that 'jasmine', rather than some insipid shade from the State Department sample book, is trending as the appropriate...
View ArticleTrotsky, Lenin and Coco Chanel's lessons for Tunisia
'With regard to countries with a belated bourgeois development, especially the colonial and semi-colonial countries, the theory of the permanent revolution signifies that the complete and genuine...
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Days of rage; will the Arab revolution spread?
Central Cairo is a 'war zone'. The police have used tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets against protestors - including firing at the heads of demonstrators. It is difficult to be sure of the...
View ArticleEgypt, the tipping point and the military
The Egyptian intifada is the most wonderful thing that has happened for decades, and it is at a critical point. The apparatus of fear, the security forces, have melted away from the main streets and...
View ArticleMahmoud in Cairo reports
Comrade Mahmoud from Glasgow is part of the movement in Cairo and in one of the neighbourhood self-defence committees. Just got off the 'phone with him. He said-There are barricades up all around...
View ArticleStatements from the Egyptian left
Statement of the Revolutionary Socialists, EgyptGlory to the martyrs! Victory to the revolution!What is happening today is the largest popular revolution in the history of our country... and of the...
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The Arab Revolution and the Coming Insurrection:Multitudinous or Permanent? A...
History is the subject of a structure whose site is not homogenous, empty time, but time filled by the presence of the now. Thus, to Robespierre ancient Rome was a past charged with the time of the now...
View ArticleWhy Supporters of the Arab revolutions should oppose Western military...
The US led NATO air attack on Libya, widely trailed for the past few weeks, raises an urgent demand for political clarity on the part of supporters of the Arab revolutions. Things are going to get...
View ArticleLies taken for wonders: on gay girls, straight guys, Arab revolutions
Mimicry reveals something in so far as it is distinct from what might be called an itself that is behind. Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis...
View ArticleSlutwalk - my best pal Rose C Munro's blog
Slutwalk is happening in Edinburgh tomorrow. If you think people have the right not to be sexually assaulted and that the victims are not to blame come to it. It starts at 1:30 in the middle of the...
View ArticleBeing White means never having to say you're sorry: on the Christian...
One of the chief characteristics of the capitalist ideological apparatus is, as Malcolm X said, to 'make the victim look like the criminal and the criminal look like the victim.' The organisers...
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November 30th Public Sector strike: the St Andrew's Day mass strike in Scotland
Photo by Aoife McKenna“An old communist conceives an embryo of longing. One day his modern prince will come.” So wrote the leftist doctor David Widgery in a reflection on the place of revolutionaries...
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