Silvia Federici talk at Goldsmiths University – 12 November 2012

An audio recording of a talk by scholar, teacher and activist Silvia Federici at Goldsmiths University (London, UK) on 12 November 2012. Track one features the full-length talk, entitled “From Commoning to Debt: Microcredit, Student Debt and the Disinvestment in Reproduction”. The second track is a recording of the question and answer session with audience

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A short report on October 20th "A future that works" demonstration

October 20th saw the TUC’s second national demonstration against austerity: “A Future That Works”. An estimated 150,000 turned out to march through London, past parliament and finish with a rally at Hyde Park. During the rally, calls for a general strike were well received and seemed more entrenched than last year and it was heartening

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C is for Plan C

Part three of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. This is a multiple pile up: an economic crisis, an ecological crisis, an energy crisis, and a food crisis. This isn’t business as usual, lives are shifting, states are failing. Six years into a global economic crisis we

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B is for Plan B

Part two of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. Towards the end of 2010, we were told by a government spokesperson “It is quite normal for government officials to be thinking about alternative scenarios [but] ministers haven’t asked for advice on ‘plan B’ because they are very

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A is for Austerity

Part one of the publication that Plan C distributed in London on the October 20th TUC March. Change in the air There was a brief period, back in 2008, maybe 2009, just after the financial crisis first erupted, when it seemed like some sort of radical change might be possible. It was obvious to all

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Care Work and the Commons

Introduction by Camille Barbagallo and Silvia Federici In this issue of the Commoner we begin a discussion of care work and more broadly reproductive work, by which we refer to the complex of activities and services that reproduce human beings as well as the commodity labor-power, starting with child-care, housework, sex work and elder care,

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Portugal: The beginning of something new

Following the large protests that recently forced the Portuguese government to repeal the worst of its austerity measures many have wondered how the Portuguese movements have achieved a victory where others have failed. This personal account by Rhiannon Colvin provides some insight into the current situation. Portugal is a country full of beauty, humour and

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Class war in the housing system

By Stuart Hodkinson To all those shocked by revelations that quotas are being used to limit certain types of tenants from accessing new social housing in London’s Kings Cross Central development, I’ve got some bad news for you – this is what the future of social housing looks like in the Big Society. Since coming

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