One week after the Blockupy protests the Blockupy Alliance has concluded that the event was on balance a success – despite the ban. So much so, that the activists have announced their return to Frankfurt, and to turn it into what the German left call a...
The politics of crisis speaks among other things to the inherent crisis within the capitalist process. Nonlinear studies of capitalism, for example, take a far more honest approach to their subject matter. One can read the theology that is neoclassical economics and...
22:10 CET: The centre right Zeit newspaper is less than impressed with the policing overkill: Taking the Blockupy events’ expiration as a benchmark to assess the city’s hard line, it is difficult to understand: even with a few more permitted events, with...
23.38 CET: Napoleon once said: “you should never disturb the enemy when he is the middle of making a mistake”. This seems to adequately describe today’s Blockupy activities in which targeted and pertinent Blockupy action simply offered a leitmotif...
23;32 CET: We close today’s blog with a link to the excellent photo slideshow of Sterneck. 21:58 CET: One cannot doubt the importance of today’s protests and their successfulness. What occurred in the Paulsplatz in particular had been declared officially...
