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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of...

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EDITORIAL: Shock and Au-sterity

1. Scared to death that all the lights were about to go out after pulling the plug on Lehman Brothers, the bourgeoisie rolled up its sleeves, girded its loins, crossed its fingers, and reached deeper...

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Introduction

This issue of Insurgent Notes attempts to grapple with a number of important issues: the profound economic bind that world capitalism has been twisting itself inside out to address–without success (see...

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Introduction

In This Issue Insurgent Notes No. 3 appears (in mid-March 2011) in the midst of a social ferment that portends the regroupment necessary to confront, at last, the ongoing attack on the world working...

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Welcome!

Welcome to Insurgent Notes! We’ve prepared this special welcome for individuals who received the leaflet we distributed at the June 14th anti-budget cuts demonstration in lower Manhattan. The leaflet...

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Nosotros y Ellos

“Estos son tiempos difíciles para nuestra ciudad”, dice el multimillonario alcalde de Nueva York con una voz que puede doblar como un raspador de pintura en cualquier ferretería al este del...

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Us and Them

“These are hard times for our city,” says the billionaire mayor of New York in a voice that could double as a paint scraper in any hardware store east of the Mississippi. He’s not alone in telling...

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Anti-Imperialism and the Iranian Revolution

Anti-imperialism and the Iranian Revolution: Fetters of the past, potential for the future The question of anti-imperialism has been much debated on the revolutionary left–particularly during most of...

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Taksim Is Not Tahrir- Yet

Taksim is not Tahrir—yet Kadir Ateş There is a photograph of a young man standing in the middle of an embattled Cairo with a sign which reads:  “Egypt supports Wisconsin workers one world one pain.”...

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In This Issue

In This Issue Insurgent Notes No. 4 continues to ride the rising tide of struggle that, happily, has coincided with our first year of publication. Focus on the Middle East Since our last issue in...

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On Tunisia

On Tunisia Note to the Reader We thank Mr. G. Bouvin who, as the editor responsible, makes it possible for us to legally publish and distribute this publication. We wish to point out that Mr. G. Bouvin...

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The Murder of the Mon Valley

The murder of the Mon Valley R.S. “From the Monongahela valley To the Mesabi iron range To the coal mines of Appalachia The story’s always the same Seven hundred tons of metal a day Now sir you tell me...

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Report From Spain: On the May 15th Movement

Report from Spain: On the May 15th Movement (Editor/translator’s note: The following is a brief account of the culmination of the “May 15th movement” in Barcelona. The movement had begun in Madrid with...

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More on Madison

More on Madison (Editor’s Note: the following letter synthesizes two e-mails from a comrade, AS, about some disagreements with Loren Goldner’s article on Madison in IN No. 3). I don’t think I was...

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Letter from Paris

Letter from France (Editor’s Note: We received the following letter from our comrade in France, Brunel, who for many months has been in the thick of a very interesting struggle of public employees in...

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When Push Comes to Shove

WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE Push always comes to shove when the issues are power, property and the continued flow of that mean green that makes bankers happy. The Occupy Wall Street movement needs to...

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The Next Step for Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Buildings, Occupy Workplaces

Today, after two months of occupations and the attacks on the occupations in Portland, Oakland and now Manhattan, OWS might be crossing a new threshold–a massive convergence of students in Union Square...

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Globalization of Capital, Globalization of Struggle

  Rise like lions after slumber… Ye are many, They are few. Shelley, The Mask of Anarchy It was a long time coming. Governments collapsing in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and perhaps soon in Yemen and Syria;...

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All Eyes On Longview: An Injury To One Is An Injury To All

January 14, 2012 Dear friend(s) and comrade(s): We are writing to inform you about a very serious class confrontation developing on the northwest coast of the United States, in Longview (Washington...

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Ne Pas Quitter Longview Des Yeux: Une Attaque Contre Un Est Une Attaque...

Nous vous écrivons pour vous informer du sérieux affrontement de classe qui se déroule sur la côte nord-ouest des USA à Longview (Etat de Washington). Dans cette petite ville, une compagnie céréalière...

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