Sweden’s Radical Comics Community
Over the past 15 years, a new genre of comics has developed in Sweden. Some of the works are neatly drawn autobiographies, others cut-and-paste, satirical collages. But what’s unique is that the genre...
View ArticleGezi Park and the Transformative Power of Art
The transformative power of creative narrative is the power to give meaning to life’s activity by keeping ahead of forces that would deny it. This transformative power, articulated in Nietzsche’s...
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Disneyland: a fully sanitized all-American utopia
Translated by Stacco Troncoso and Edited by Jane Loes Lipton of Guerrilla Translation. Spanish original published on Iohannes Maurus. I recently had the occasion to visit Disneyland (Paris) with my...
View ArticleInterview with Paul Mattick: more business as usual
Global Uprisings interview series: Mariam Kirollos — Fighting Sexual Assault in Egypt Paul Mason — The Economics of Revolt Paul Mattick — More Business as Usual The following interview was conducted...
View ArticleSpent? Capitalism’s growing problem with anxiety
About six months ago, Moritz Erhardt, a 21-year-old intern for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, died after working for 72 hours straight without sleep. Journalists found a strange bravado among...
View ArticleUprooted Generation
Part poem and part documentary, this film is dedicated to the victims of residential schools. Uprooted Generation includes reflections on cultural disconnection, personal and community trauma,...
View ArticleMasquée
Zola is a street artist motivated by social justice. She paints, cuts and pastes her art throughout the streets of Montreal. Her works, always political, invite those who stumble upon them to question...
View ArticleEco-Capitalism: A Dream within a Dream?
All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. ~ Edgar Allan Poe We all know at least some of them – those socially and ecologically conscious ‘Green’ hipsters. Upper middle class yuppies who...
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At Utopia’s Fiesta: ROAR at the anti-fascist concert in Athens
At Utopia’s Fiesta By Leonidas Oikonomakis It must have been on some Sunday, or some Monday In a poem of Lorca, in the paintings of Rivera In the Sea of Hikmet, the words of Galeano And before getting...
View ArticleIn Defense of Our Generation
So we are moving back in with our parents, we are delaying real-life commitments, we keep changing rooms and jobs practically every year, and somehow we seem more amped to travel or do another masters...
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