Last month, Portugal’s largest trade union CGTP called a general strike for November 14 against the “exploitation and impoverishment” of the Portuguese population. The union stressed the need to change government policies “for the sake of a better future” and urged...
The Amendment of the German Bankruptcy Act,1www.bmj.de/DE/Buerger/verbraucher/Insolvenzrecht/Stufe1/_node.html;jsessionid=7AC33A628D902B2093626145680AA676.1_cid324 which came into effect six months ago, has opened the door to widespread abuse alleges the industry...
Image: Golden Dawn on the Streets “Reclaim our cities”. “Self-organise”. “Take neighbourhood action”. Consider these slogans for a moment. Sound familiar? Indeed they should, echoing as they do a body of scholarship (e.g. Amin & Thrift, 2005; Butler, 2012;...
The subversion of law begins with the reduction of politics to a crime.1K.G. Kannabiran, Wages of Impunity: Power, Justice and Human Rights (Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2004) What is never questioned is the bourgeois state of law upon which modern capitalism...
This morning (19 October 2012) Trenton Oldfield will be sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court for his protest at the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. He faces a potential custodial sentence for his direct action against government cuts and a culture of elitism in the UK....
It would not be surprising if, in the context of an international conference, a group of jurists from different nations identified a set of common juridical references based on different legal systems. This occurrence would be attributed to the process of...
