Author Archives: CaFra Manchinburgh

CaFra Manchinburgh, philosophical worker.

The human significance of the ‘cuts’ (2010)

A very short piece on criminal austerity politics – an old text, but unfortunately still relevant and timely, now that the current Labour (labour?) Government has made criminal austerity permanent (Published initially in the NCAFC, http://anticuts.com/2010/11/13/the-human-significance-of-the-cuts/) What is at stake in the British government’s spending review announced some weeks ago, is not a question ofContinue reading “The human significance of the ‘cuts’ (2010)”

The ecocide-genocide nexus: for a ‘logics of destruction approach’ which definitely overcome liberal definitional legalism and its deceptive bearing on ecocide-genocide prevention

ABSTRACT: This article is an intervention in a growing scholarly literature and debate on ecocide, genocide and their nexus aimed as much at the teaching of these issues as at their study and research. The context for this debate is what the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (TPP) has aptly called ‘the most persistent war of ourContinue reading “The ecocide-genocide nexus: for a ‘logics of destruction approach’ which definitely overcome liberal definitional legalism and its deceptive bearing on ecocide-genocide prevention”

Pandemic politics, oligarchic times and the idiotic subject of ‘freedom’

Pandemic politics, oligarchic times and the idiotic subject of ‘freedom’ This article was published in Open Democracy in May 2020, during the first lockdown. In those days, when people were dying by the thousands and hospitals were being overwhelmed with covid-19 patients, a deluge of news of ‘donations’ by the rich was pouring into theContinue reading “Pandemic politics, oligarchic times and the idiotic subject of ‘freedom’”