Insurgent Notes – Number 5

It's Crisis Time!

INSURGENT NOTES – NUMBER 5

New York City Insurgent Notes No. 5, dealing mainly with the U.S. Occupy movement, is now up at:
http://insurgentnotes.com

January 2012

The Occupy Movement in the United States

Editorial

Globalization of Capital, Globalization of Struggle

 

OWS and the Working Class

Kadir Ateş

 

Reports From the Occupy Wall Street Events of Mid-November

R.S.

 

Reflections on the New School Occupation

Arya Zahedi

 

NYC Transit Workers’ Fare Strike 2012: Can Occupy Open Horizons for a Frustrated Labor Movement?

Johnny Locks

Oakland

 

Occupy Oakland: The Port Shutdown and Beyond—All Eyes on Longview (Guest Article)

Jack Gerson

Seattle

 

The Radicalization of Decolonize/Occupy Seattle (Guest Article)

Black Orchid Collective

Baltimore

 

Letter from Baltimore

Curtis P.

Atlanta

 

Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics or Popular Self-Management for the Post-Civil Rights City (Guest Article)

Theo Tegemea and Z.A. Mrefu

Los Angeles

 

Occupy LA: The Worst of the Best

Amiri Barksdale and Ryann Scypion

 

Other Articles

 

The Sky Is Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn: Class Struggle in the US from the 2008 Crash to the Eve of the Occupations Movement

Loren Goldner

 

Boom and Bust… Literally

R.S.

 

Letter From France: French Trotskyist Traveling-Salesman Besancenot Touts Moth-Eaten Electoral Wares in New York

Y.C.

 

Letter From Spain: The November 2011 General Elections in Spain: Indignation Trapped in the Ballot Box

**END**

 

‘I believe in the afterlife.

It starts tomorrow,

When I go to work’

Cold Hands & Quarter Moon, ‘Human Herbs’ at: http://www.myspace.com/coldhandsmusic (recording) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7tUq0HjIk (live)

‘Human Herbs’ – a new remix and new video by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-vyMtfDAs

‘Stagnant’ – a new remix and new video by Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkP_Mi5ideo  

‘Cheerful Sin’ – a song by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbX5aKUjO8

‘The Lamb’ by William Blake – set to music by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw3VloKBvZc

 

Posted here by Glenn Rikowski

The Flow of Ideas: http://www.flowideas.co.uk

MySpace Profile: http://www.myspace.com/glennrikowski

Cold Hands & Quarter Moon: http://www.myspace.com/coldhandsmusic

Glenn Rikowski on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/glenn.rikowski