NO TO THE EUROPE OF RULERS AND BANKERS! MEET IN FLORENCE …… 28 EUROPEAN MINISTERS GUILTY OF EXPLOITATION AND MISERY OF THE PEOPLES OF EUROPE WILL GATHER IN FLORENCE JULY 14, 2014 FOR A NEW VERTEX. THE LORDS OF EUROPE ARE PREPARING A WORLD OF EXPLOITATION WITH LESS WORK, LESS SALARY, FEWER RIGHTS, LESS FACILITY. protest at Ponte S.Trinita on [...]

Commenting on the results of the elections is very widespread custom in Italy. In times of world cup it could be compared to the simplicity and inconsistency with which many fans criticize the choices of the national football selector. In fact, in both cases, it is hard to spot something clever in a flood of superficial comments and opinions. A [...]

It is all settled beneath the chatter and the noise. The silence and the feeling. The excitement and fear. The sparse, erratic flashes of beauty. And then the wretched squalor and the miserable man. All buried by the blanket of the embarrassment of being in the world. Finally, the movie of Paolo Sorrentino made the grade: it won the Oscar [...]

…everything changes. The Five Star Movement is undoubtedly one of the novelties in the Italian election campaign. Born in 2009 under the wing of the comedian Giuseppe Grillo and the web marketing expert Gianroberto Casaleggio, founder of the company Casaleggio Associati, this new organization made up of local networks connected via the web (and beyond), has been transformed in a [...]

The political representative protecting Apple’s interests, while chairing the board of the wider business community representing the American bourgeoisie, Obama, has sided ‘rightly’ in favour of the economic interests of the ruling class. Mr. President has canceled Samsung’s legal victory over Apple, thus allowing the company Cupertino to continue to nibble away at hours and hours of surplus value by [...]

CortocircuitO was born with the aim of working on a central, uncovered issue of antagonistic political struggles: political communication. Information has effect on the production of truth, defining what is true and what is false. We are talking about a field that is never neutral, but that has always been the result of the real clash between conflicting interests. The [...]

“We are the 99% and we have credit”… but who we are? One of the slogans, if not “the” slogan, of the Occupy movement is “We’re the 99%”: some people think we are already dealing with the polarization foreseen by Marx in his “Manifesto”[1]. Politically speaking, the most interesting datum is not the miscellany within the 99% as much as [...]