Intervention – “Future Shock” by Andy Merrifield

Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Speculating on the future, especially on the political future—and especially especially on a Left political future—is...
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Featured video – Financialization sucks: How the academic community of the University of Amsterdam has taken up the fight against neoliberal managerialism

by Ewald Engelen, Universiteit van Amsterdam On Wednesday evening, 25 February, a group of approximately 1,500 students marched towards the main administrative building of the University of...
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Intervention – 'Crammed Contested Strip: Democracy in the New Republic' by Andy Merrifield

Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge I was in Athens not long ago, at a conference called “Crisis-Scapes”, organized by a talented anarchist collective who a...
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Intervention – 'Eastern partners or chaotic neighbors? The contested geopolitics and geoeconomics of integrating Ukraine and Moldova'

by Austin Crane, University of Washington-Seattle
, and Adam Levy, University of Colorado-Boulder Introduction Since 2004, the European Union’s Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) instrument has governed...
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Intervention – Resisting Austerity in Crisis-Hit Southern EU Countries: The Case of Greek Non-Appointed Faculty Members

by Stelios Gialis, Hellenic Open University / University of Georgia “Now that we have overcome the hardship of the mountains we need to subdue the adversities of the valleys…” Bertolt...
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Precarity and housing politics in austerity London, UK

by Mara Ferreri, Queen Mary, University of London On 27 February 2012, London’s Occupy LSX was evicted, as was the School of Ideas. At the time of writing, only the protest camp at Finsbury Square...
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