Zapatista merchandise stall (Thursday-Sunday 7th-29th August)

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:27:14 +0000

Start: 07/08/2010 - 09:30

End: 29/08/2010 - 18:00

We will be selling coffee, amber, hand-made bags, t-shirts, books and other merchandise to support the Zapatista's from our stall during August (Thursday-Sunday 7th-29th 9.30am-6pm). The stall will be part of the Arts and Crafts market at St.John's church, at the corner of Princes Street with Lothian Road (see map). All proceeds will be donated to Zapatista communities to help them to build autonomous health and education systems.

John Holloway talks about the Zapatistas and his new book "Crack Capitalism"

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:49:27 +0000

Start: 15/08/2010 - 19:30

End: 15/08/2010 - 19:30

John Holloway is a Professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico. His publications include Crack Capitalism (Pluto, 2010), Change the World Without Taking Power (Pluto, 2005), Zapatista! Rethinking Revolution in Mexico (co-editor, Pluto, 1998) and Global Capital, National State and the Politics of Money (co-editor, 1994).

Crack Capitalism, argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of cracks' in the capitalist system. These cracks are ordinary moments or spaces of rebellion in which we assert a different type of doing.

John Holloway's previous book, Change the World Without Taking Power, sparked a world-wide debate among activists and scholars about the most effective methods of going beyond capitalism. Now Holloway rejects the idea of a disconnected array of struggles and finds a unifying contradiction - the opposition between the capitalist labour we undertake in our jobs and the drive towards doing what we consider necessary or desirable.

Clearly and accessibly presented in the form of 33 theses, Crack Capitalism is set to reopen the debate among radical scholars and activists seeking to break capitalism now.

FREE Event

All Welcome!

Organized by Edinburgh and Glasgow
Chiapas Solidarity Groups

       Sunday, 15th August, 7:30 pm
       The Out of the Blue Drill Hall
       30-36 Dalmeny Street,
       Edinburgh, EH6 8RG

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Zapatista merchandise stall (Thursday-Sunday 7th-29th August)

John Holloway talks about the Zapatistas and his new book "Crack Capitalism"