Posts Tagged as ‘world economic crisis’

February 3, 2009

“I’ll Give Myself to the President” (Kaliningrad, January 31, 2009)

The wave of total, self-abnegating assent to the Russian government’s s0-called anti-crisis program has now spread to the western frontier of the world’s largest country—Kaliningrad (Königsberg). We just received this dispatch from a correspondent on our platform:

On January 31, a rally in support of the President’s anti-crisis program was scheduled to [...]

January 26, 2009

March of the Assenters (Petersburg, January 25, 2009)

It has been a grim week for leftist activists in Russia. So it was encouraging to see that not everyone in the community has completely lost their courage—or their sense of humor. Yesterday (January 25, 2009) several dozen anti-fascists, leftists, and preservationist activists took to the streets of Saint Petersburg to express their total assent [...]

October 9, 2008

Alex Foti: A To-Do List

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008
From: Alex Foti
Subject: <nettime> a to-do list
To: nettime-l@kein.org

dear sisters and brothers,
call it the big slump, the great recession, the new depression: a major capitalist crisis is among us, and nettime saw it ahead of imf and goldman economists.
last week’s debate seemed to focus on two possible ways to go about the new historical situation:
i) let’s [...]