Category Archives: Politics

A people’s default is conceivable. A people’s austerity is not.’

Lenin’s Tomb: On Mon­day, the Greek Prime Min­is­ter announced that his gov­ern­ment would hold a ref­er­en­dum on the lat­est Euro aus­ter­ity pack­age.  And look at the reac­tion to this osten­si­ble demo­c­ra­tic naivete.  Stock mar­kets slide every­where.  The BBC expresses its dis­be­lief: “For what­ever rea­sons, George Papan­dreou was stand­ing up for democ­racy.”  Ger­man and French politi­cians throw tantrums, demand­ing

What makes a strike ‘general’?

Michelle Ty: Tomor­row is Occupy Oakland’s gen­eral strike and day of action. I haven’t writ­ten much about it because I’ve been doing some work with the ad hoc media com­mit­tee, which has been fan­tas­tic and frus­trat­ing and excit­ing and exhaust­ing. If you watch the video of this press con­fer­ence, you won’t see me: Popout But I

General Strike!

Rorty­bomb: Occupy Oak­land has taken a new promi­nence in the occupy move­ment after last week’s stun­ning police vio­lence, espe­cially the maim­ing of Iraq vet­eran Scott Olsen by the police.  As a response, Occupy Oak­land has called for a gen­eral strike tomor­row, Wednes­day Novem­ber 2nd.  There’s a lot of inter­est in the gen­eral strike – there’s