‘Queesch’ Mag Review Our Book, ‘What Would it Mean to Win?’
In January 2011, a review of our book, What Would it Mean to Win?, was published in Issue 24 of the multi-language Luxembourg-based magazine, Queesch. The review, written by Katy Fox, can be read in full here.
David Harvie Audio: ‘The Crisis of Antagonism and the Crisis of Organisation’
David Harvie, a member of the Turbulence collective (and also of The Free Association), participated in last year’s Attac Suisse summer school, where he spoke on The Crisis of Antagonism and the Crisis of Organisation. The audio recording of his talk and the ensuing discussion is now available below. David is first introduced (in French) by Carol Bonvin, an Attac Suisse activist and one of the event’s organisers. David begins his talk 2mins 20sec into the recording and speaks (in English) for just over half an hour. The questions/discussion part of the session starts at 34.45; this might be much harder to follow, unfortunately, as participants mostly speak in German or French (with whispered translations into English), whilst David responds in English.
The Free Association New Book & Tour
Turbulence-editors and Free Association-members David Harvie and Keir Milburn will be in the US in mid-March to talk about The Free Association’s new book Moments of Excess: Movements, Protest and Everyday Life (published by PM Press). (Scroll down for preview.) Their itinerary includes the following events:
Sunday 13 March, 2pm, Oakland.
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library, 6501 Telegraph Avenue
Forum discussion
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Monday 14 March, 7pm, San Fransisco
The Green Arcade, 1680 Market Street (at Gough)
Talk and discussion
Tuesday 15 March, 7pm, San Francisco
Station 40, 3030 16th Street (at Mission).
Talk and discussion on “Moments of Excess, Movements, and a New Generation of Struggle”.
Wednesday 16 March, 7pm, San Franciso
CounterPulse, 1310 Mission Street.
“TALKS! Moments of Excess: panel and discussion about how we situate ourselves in current movements and how to prepare ourselves for future events”
(With Aaron Benanav, Gifford Hartman, Robert Hurley and David Solnit.)
Thursday 17 March, 7pm, Sacramento
Marxist School of Sacramento, Sol Collective, 2574 21st Street
Talk and discussion
Saturday 19 March, 3pm, New York City
Panel on “Movement, generation and moments of excess”
(With Peter Linebaugh, Malav Kanuga and Marina Sitrin)
Monday 21 March, 7pm New York City
Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street
Talk and discussion
Book Preview, via Google Books
Turbulence Editors on Climate Change: Reel News Video 22
As reported last year, two Turbulence editors feature in Reel News‘ Issue 22 in a piece entitled ‘Carbon Trading: Privatise the Air’. Issue 22 was released in February 2010, shortly after the launch of Turbulence 5 at the Copenhagen UN Climate Conference.
Reel News Issue 22, as well as other issues of the video magazine, can be purchased online here.
The segment can now be viewed online here.
Carbon Trading: Privatise the Air
Portuguese Translation of ‘Life in Limbo?’ Now Online
Back in October 2010, we announced that a Portuguese translation of our Issue 5 editorial article, Life in Limbo?, had been published in Issue 30 of the Brazilian journal, Lugar Comum (available for purchase here). The translation is now also available online here.
Spanish Language Journal ‘Herramienta’ Publish ‘Life in Limbo?’ Translation
In April 2010, at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia, we launched the first Spanish language edition [PDF] of Turbulence, containing a number of articles previously included in Issue 5. Now, the web edition of the Spanish language journal, Herramienta, revista de debate y crítica marxista, based in Argentina, has published our Issue 5 editorial article, Life in Limbo? The article was published in Issue 7 of their new web-journal, the full contents of which can be found here. For more information about Herramienta, click here.
As ever, further Spanish and other language translations can be found via our website at: http://turbulence.org.uk/translations/
Turbulence Begin Collaboration with ‘The Post-Capitalist Project’
We’ve begun collaborating with The Post-Capitalist Project which describes itself as “a cooperative, nonsectarian venture of left journals, popular education centers, and electronic media.”
On the Project’s website, they explain the following:
“Our goal is to make easily available the wide range of new programs, experiments, and theories analyzing the transition beyond capitalism toward a socialist future, recognizing that “socialism” is a protean concept encompassing many different historical experiences and future possibilities.
“The project seeks rigorous interrogations of a wide range of questions, addressing possible changes in literally all aspects of our current way of life—from our vision of the potential development of human capacities, to the specific ways a post-capitalist economy—production, distribution and consumption– could function, role of markets, etc., to how our moral and ethical priorities can help us reshape our society, to our relationship to technology and nature, to our forms of governance/self-governance, to how we organize now for a future world–and much more.
“We are also interested in the question of what we can create or have created within capitalism that contributes to a socialist society, as well as why we should be envisioning a future world, especially since we may expect these visions to change and develop in the course of struggle.”
Each collaborating publication or project contributes at least one, and a maximum of five, articles per year. Our first contribution is the editorial article, Life in Limbo?, published in Issue 5 of our magazine.
Other contributors to the Project currently include: The Brecht Forum | Left Turn | New Labor Forum | Portside | Radical History Review | Rethinking Marxism | Science & Society | Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination | Socialism and Democracy | Socialist Project | Socialist Register | The Indypendent | The Nation | Transform! | WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society | Z Communications
For more information, see: http://postcapitalistproject.org/about
Italian Translation of ‘Life in Limbo?’ Published by ‘Loop’
An abridged Italian translation of our Issue 5 editorial article, Life in Limbo?, was published in the October/November 2010 issue of Loop (No. 10) magazine. The entire magazine is now freely available online here. Flick through to pages 12 and 13 for our article. A translation of the complete article is available here. We would like to thank Alessandro Zagato for the translation and Alex Foti for his editorial work.
Further translations are available here.
Turbulence Statement of Support for Anti-Fees and Anti-Cuts Protests in the UK
It seems increasingly obvious and necessary that we define democracy less by the exercise of the right to vote than by the exercise of taking to the streets and making ourselves heard. The recent cases of Greece and Ireland, but all ‘responses’ to the ‘financial crisis’ in general, show the extent to which political process has become detached from any sense of accountability, or any pretenses of representing ‘public opinion’, working in the ‘public interest’, or articulating a vision of the ‘public good’. Instead, the grip those very groups and interests that caused the crisis have on the state seems only to grow stronger, and their short-term self-preservation instinct appears to the rest of us like a death drive which, seeking to postpone the reckoning that the various present crises (finance, environment, energy, food) call for, can do nothing but prescribe more of the poison that got us where we are.
Right now, the UK is witnessing a battle against this death drive: the barely-elected ConDem government, despite its lack of a clear mandate for anything, is trying to pass what is a huge threat to the accessibility, diversity and quality of education in the country as a valid ‘response’ to the crisis which (they’d like us to believe) will lead to greater fairness in the future. But it doesn’t take a graduate degree to see through the lie. After three decades in which income and opportunities have been syphoned towards the top of the social pyramid like never since the first half of the 20th century, all that ‘responses’ like this amount to is trying to ingrain inequalities even more.
Turbulence is encouraged to see a growing movement in the UK rise to the challenges that lie ahead. We fully support all actions taken against the cuts in education, in public services and the arts, including all the university occupations taking place around the UK, and oppose any attempts at criminalising these, as well the underhand tactics used by police to scare people off the streets (and which those who’ve been doing this for a bit longer are sadly familiar with). The same goes to students and non-students protesting and occupying in Italy, France, Ireland, Greece, the US, and wherever else ‘we’re all in this together’ is being used as the smokescreen for creating an ever greater gap between ‘us’ and ‘them’.
Not because we think the university — or, for that matter, society — such as they are must be ‘preserved’. There’s a lot to change, and if there’s something everyone agrees upon is that right now is a good time to do it. The difference is, precisely, that much of the ‘change’ that governments and capital have to offer now is, in fact, more of the same.
Regardless of how long it takes to turn the situation around, this has to be just the beginning.
Turbulence
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For a collection of links to groups, networks, and organisations mobilising against the cuts, fees, and austerity measures in the UK, as well as to various news portals covering the protests, click here.
The Anti-Cuts and Austerity Movement in the UK
We’ve set up a page to keep track of the various anti-cuts and anti-austerity protests, groups, organisations and networks in the UK. Click on the following to find links to goings on in your area, as well as coordination and communication nodes and sources of news: http://turbulence.org.uk/uk-cuts-2010/
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