Who’s Afraid of the French Revolution?
“Après moi, le deluge.” Little could King Louis XV have predicted that his unfortunate grandson, the enlightened and well-intentioned but indecisive Louis XVI, would succumb...
Losing Strength? Hardly: An Alternative Vision of Spain’s Indignados
A silent revolution emerges from the underground. Far from losing strength, decentralization has allowed 15-M to become ever more dynamic. Is the 15-M movement going...
Bailing Ourselves Out: Leveraging Against Banking Barons in the Heartland
Bank of America — via the gravelly voice of Kiefer Sutherland — has referred to itself for the last few years as the “Bank of Opportunity.” But...
A Few Good Democrats Are Not Enough
As long as there has been a thing called Occupy Wall Street, there have been people who’ve suggested it should become the left’s version of...
The Politics of the Impossible
The U.S. electoral system is all about what the system deems possible. During each election season we are given the choice between a few politicians...
H.R. 347: A Federal Anti-Occupy Bill?
A bill outlawing many forms of protest employed by the Occupy Wall Street movement has received overwhelming bipartisan support in the House, passed unanimously in the Senate and...
The “Cancer” In Occupy? An Anarchist Reponds
“The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy...
General Strike
When the entire workforce of a city lays down its tools and refuses to resume work until certain demands are met, it is called a...
Occupy Oakland: Statement of Solidarity
To the Occupy Oakland family and all supporters of Occupy Oakland: We are writing in regards to any misconceptions you may have regarding last Saturday’s...
Occupy the Volcker Rule
It would all be so much easier if we didn’t need the banks. We could send the banksters in a rocketship to start an over-leveraged...
Diversity of Tactics or Divide and Conquer?
Following the most recent police assault on Occupy Oakland, Crooks & Liars managing editor Tina Dupuy called for Occupy to purge those who fail to “denounce violent...
A New Declaration
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That the real, physical world is the source of our own lives, and the lives of others. A...