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Towards a Queer Marxism? Peter Drucker reviews two books on sexuality, socialism and queer Marxism.
Peter Drucker reviews Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation by Sherry Wolf, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009, pages, $12 paperback and The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism by Kevin Floyd Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 271 pages, $25 paperback for Against the Current -> read article... |
| European Union
Europe: A strategy to break with the Europe of CapitalSoon the Spanish Government, through an agreement with the Popular Party, will pose the question, unprecedented since entry into the EU, of reforming the Constitution to enshrine budgetary stability, further tightening the criteria of the Euro Pact. Thus the current PSOE government, together with its presumed successor, the PP, are again posing as exemplary champions of rigor, submitting to the demands of the financial oligarchies and the governments of Merkel and Sarkozy. -> read article... |
| Indonesia
Indonesia: Remembering mass-murderThe 1960s were worldwide a period of turbulence and change. But whereas in many parts of the world, the decade is often remembered as a time of exuberance and hope, in Indonesia it’s split in half by a wave of intense violence. About 45 years ago, one of the great crimes of the twentieth century took place: from early October 1965 to March 1966, after a coup attempt by pro-Communist Party officers backfired, Indonesia witnessed the bloodiest massacres in its history. -> read article... |