Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere (42 page)

Cavafy, C. P. 127

cellphones 75–76, 133–34

Central Security (Egypt) 9, 11, 17

Challenge of Slums, The
(UN) 198–99

Charles, Prince 51–52

Chávez, Hugo 33

China 38, 78, 108, 112, 121, 125; consumption 109; foreign currency reserves 107; monetary policy 123

Chomsky, N. 28–29

Chris (student demonstrator) 48

Cinco, Mena 196–98, 206, 206–9

Citigroup 67

civil disobedience 56

class struggles 131

Clegg, Nick 44

Climate Camp movement 1, 55

Clinton, Hillary 26

collaborative production 139–41

Coming Insurrection, The
189–91

commodity price inflation 120–22, 195

communes 189, 190

Communiqué from an Absent Future
38–39

Communist Manifesto, The
(Marx and Engels) 174, 188–89

communists 80

computer gamers 136

Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition 44

consumption, and self-esteem 80–81

control 148

co-operatives 84

corruption, threat of 177–78, 205

creative destruction 106

credit crisis 106, 109

credit default swaps 99, 107

Critical Legal Thinking website 54

cross-border links 69–70

Cruz, Gloria 204

cultural stereotypes 27

culture: mass 29–30; popular 65, 176; transnational 69; working-class 72; youth 70

culture wars 178–84

currency manipulation 121–22

currency war 122–24

cyber-repression 78

Czechoslovakia 173

Darkness at Noon
(Koestler) 128–29

Davies, Nick 148

Davos 17, 111

Dawkins, Richard 75, 150

Day X, 24 November 2010, London 41–42, 46–48

Debord, Guy 42, 46–17, 51

debt, toxic 110–11

default theory 111

deflationary slump 123

Deleuze, Gilles 46, 85

Delius, Frederick 127, 132, 152, 176

democratic counter-revolution 177, 188

demographics of revolt 66, 66–73; Athens, December 2008 uprising 73; students 66–71; the urban poor 70–72

Deptford 57

Detrick, Terry 154, 155–56, 156

devaluation 91, 122–23

@digitalmaverick 1–2

discontent, three tribes 68–69

disillusionment 68–69

disinformation, counteracting 146

disposable income 67

Dodd–Frank Act (USA) 167

@dougald 1

Dubstep Rebellion 48–52; blog 52; the Book Bloc 50–51; casualties 51; Fleet Street photographers 51; graffiti 51; marchers 49; police–student confrontation 50–51

durable authoritarianism 27, 30, 191

Durkheim, Emile 103–4

Dworkin, Ronald 46

eBay 74

e-commerce 81

economic crisis 3; revolutions, 1848 173

economic stagnation 191–92

economic theory 111

Economist,
the 25

egoism 132

Egypt: bread prices 11; democratic counter-revolution 177; economic growth 119; economic indicators 119–20; elections, November 2011 177; Gini Index 119; inflation 120–21; opposition movement 10; organized workforce 72; police corruption 11; privatizations 17–18; unemployment 119–120; urban poor 71; working class 19–20

Egyptian revolution, the: the Army and 178; balance sheet 5; bread prices 11; casualties 17; chants 191, 211; counter-revolution 18; Day of Rage, 28 May 15–17; and Facebook 6, 10, 11, 12, 14; freedom 5; immolations 11, 71; Internet switched off 14; medical professions 20–22; military coup 17–19; numbers involved 13; outbreak, 25 January 10–14, 83; police violence 15; questions facing 23–24; Twitter blocked 14; Twitter feeds 13, 14; ultras 16–17; working class 20; on YouTube 11, 14, 15–16;
zabbaleen
riots 6–10

email 10

emancipated life 143–44

Engels, Friedrich 174, 188–89, 190

@eponymousthing 184

equity withdrawal 114

Estero de San Miguel, Manila 196–99, 205–6, 206–9

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
The
(film) 29

Eurobonds 113

Eurocrisis, the 111–13

European Central Bank 92, 98, 104, 112

European Financial Stability Facility 92, 104

European Financial Stabilization Facility 113

European monetary union 112, 113

European Union: response to Greek debt crisis 91–92, 96, 98–99, 104; sovereign debt crisis 104

Europe, revolutions, 1848 172

Eurozone 104; debt crisis 91–92, 99, 111–13

Execution of Maximilian
(Manet) 53

exploitation 85

Facebook 74; Arab world growth of 135; and the Egyptian revolution 6, 10, 11, 12, 14; establishing connections with 75; ‘We are all Khaled Said' page 11; and the Iranian revolution 34; and London trade-union demonstration, March 2011 57–58; Middle East usage 135; reciprocity 77; user numbers 135

Farewell to the Working Class
(Gorz) 79–80

fatalism 30, 31

feedback loops 187

Feldstein–Horioka paradox 107

Feldstein, Martin 107

Fennimore and Gerda
(Delius) 127, 132

First World War 128

Fisher, Mark 30

Flaubert, Gustave 171, 192

Flickr 10, 75

Food Price Index 121

Fordist era 28

Foucault, Michel 46, 84–85

fragmentation 80–81, 82

fragmented power 17

‘Fragment on Machines' (Marx) 143–44

France 173; Languedoc, 1848 174, 187; socialism 188;
see also
Paris

freedom 27, 124; of expression 127; individual 127–30; Marx on 141–42; suppression of 131–33

Freeman, Richard 108

free-market economics 92, 188

Friedman, Milton 111

Fukuyama, Francis 30

G20 Summit, 2009 48, 122

Gaddafi, Muammar 25, 31

Gapan City, Philippines 193–96

Gates, Bill 23, 110

gay rights 132

Gaza 37; Israeli invasion of 33

Gaza City 31

Gaza Flotilla, May 2010 55

general intellect, the 144, 145–47

General Motors 39

Germany 113, 191; revolution of 1848 172; wages 108, 112

@Ghonim 13

Giddens, Anthony 31

Gide, André 127

Giffords, Gabrielle 182

Gini Index 119

Gladwell, Malcolm 81–82, 83

global capital flows 107–8

global financial crisis 31, 39, 66–67, 85, 110–11, 115, 191

globalization 69,72, 105, 108, 109, 122, 124, 149, 191

Golkar, Saeid 78

Googlebombs 78

Gorz, André 79–80, 143

graduate with no future, the 66–73, 96–97; disposable income 67; as international sub-class 69; life-arc 67; numbers 70; revolutionary role 72–73; and the urban poor 70–71

Grapes of Wrath, The
(Steinbeck) 153, 155, 159, 163, 164

Great Britain: anti-road movement 56; benefit system 113–14; changing forms of protest 54–57; collapse of Labour 113–15; devaluation 123; Education Maintenance Allowance 47; end of winter of discontent 61–62; equity withdrawal 114; European elections, 2009 115; general election, 2010 43; the graduate with no future 96–97; Millbank riot 42–44; non-UK born workers 115; police failures 61; public spending cuts 54–55; radical tactics 54–57; spontaneous horizontalists 44–46; Strategic Security and Defence Review 124; student population 70; UK Uncut actions 54–55; university fees 44, 47, 50, 54; youth 41–42, 44, 53–54; youth unemployment 66

Great Depression, lessons of 123–25

Great Doubling 108

Great Unrest, 1914 175–76

Greece 37, 188; anomic breakdown 103–4; austerity programme 92–93, 102; bailouts 92, 96, 98, 113; cabinet reshuffle 96, 97–98; debt crisis 90, 91–92, 98–99, 112; GDP 91; general election, 2009 91; general strike 99; the left 100; media ownership 87; Medium Term Fiscal Strategy 91; model of capitalism 102; MP resignations 89; Papandreou government falls 96; political legitimacy lost 104; the salariat 101; tax evasion 97; tax revenues 92; tax system 91;
see
also
Athens

Greek Communist Party (KKE) 88, 90

Grigoropoulos, Alexandras 32

grime (music) 52

Grossman, Vasily 129

@GSquare86 69

Guindi, Ezzat 9

hackers 35

el-Hamalawy, Hossam, @3arabawy 10, 22, 71

Hardy, Simon 69

Hayek, Friedrich 111, 209

Henderson, Maurice 161–62

Hennawy, Abd El Rahman, @Hennawy89 12–13

Here Comes Everybody
(Shirky) 138

Herman, Edward S. 28–29

hidemyass.com 14

hierarchy: erosion of 80–81; informal 83; predictability of 77

higher education market 67

Hill, Joe 176

historical materialism 131

Hogge, Becky 140

homelessness 159–63

Hoon, Geoff 114

Horioka, Charles 107

horizontalism 45, 55, 56, 62, 100

Huffington Post
blog 184

human rights 143

Hungary 172

Ian's Pizza, Madison, Wisconsin 184

Ibrahim, Gigi, @GSquare86 69

ideology 29, 149

immolations 11, 32, 71

impotence, zeitgeist of 29–30

impoverishment 209

Inception
(film) 29

India 120–21

Indiana 116–17, 125

indignados,
the 88, 100–1, 104

individual: freedom of 127–30; power of the 65, 79; rise of the 127–30

Indorama group 22

industrialization 192

Indymedia 74

inequality 209

inflation 109, 120–21

info-capitalism 148, 211

info-hierarchies 147–52

info-revolution, the 146, 149–50

informal hierarchies 83

information capitalism 145

information management 147

information networks 77

information tools 75

Inkster, Nigel 65

institutional loyalty 68

interest rates 67

International Labour Organization 19–20, 120

International Monetary Fund 92

Internet consciousness 136–38

Internet, the: access in slums 207; Arab world growth 135; and behaviour changes 131; and the Iranian revolution 35; out of reach for some 152; power of 29; shutdowns 14, 78; and the spread of ideas 150–51

investment, and savings 107

Invisible Committee, the 189–91

Iran 25; causes of failure of revolution 36–37; election, 2009 33–34; and the Internet 35; and the Middle East balance of power 178; rooftop poems 36; Twitter Revolution 33–37, 78, 178; on YouTube 34, 35

Iraq 25, 55

Ireland 92, 111, 112, 188

Islam 30, 37

Israel 26, 33, 179–80

Italy 104

Jakarta 33

James, C. L. R. 149

Jameson, Fredric 25–27, 28

Japan 123

Jasiewicz, Ewa 55–57

John (Tent City prison guard) 165

Jordan 121

Joy Junction homeless camp, Albuquerque 159–63

July 14, protest movement, Israel 179–80

Kahn-Harris, Keith 66

Kenya 133–34

kettling 47–48, 54, 60, 61

Keynesianism 118

Keynes, John Maynard 127

Khadim, Mohammed 199

Kindleberger, Charles 125

King, Stephen 191–92

KKE (Greek Communist Party) 88, 90

Klein, Naomi 1

Klimt, Gustav 127, 128, 132

knowledge 3, 145—47

knowledge work 147

Koestler, Arthur 128

Krugman, Paul 118

labour force, growth 108

Labourism 187

Labour Party (British) 46, 188

Lady Chatterley's Lover
(Lawrence) 128

Lange, Dorothea 154

Lapavistas, Costas 112

Lassalle, Ferdinand 84

Lawrence, D. H. 127, 128

leadership 176

learning, changing nature of 146—47

Lebanon 121

left, the: absence of 187–88; failure of 28–30; and the info-revolution 149–50

Lehman Brothers 31, 99, 105, 110, 123

Leninism 187

Lenin, V. I. 46

Len-len 193–96, 209

Liberal Democrats 43–44, 46

liberalizers 31

Libya 25, 31, 119; National Transitional Council 178

Life and Fate
(Grossman) 129

Lilico, Andrew 121

link-shorteners 75

Linux 139–40

@littlemisswilde 41–42, 44, 45, 135–36, 138

living conditions, urban slums 196–99

London: anti-capitalist demonstrations 33; arrests 61–62; Day X, 24 November 2010 41–42, 46–48; the Dubstep Rebellion 48–52; Fortnum & Mason 60–61; HM Revenue and Customs building 51; Hyde Park 60; Millbank riot 42–44; Millbank Tower 43; Museum Tavern 1; National Gallery teach-in 53, 53–54; Oxford Circus 60; Palladium Theatre 51; Parliament Square 49, 51, 52–53; Piccadilly Circus 58; police–student confrontation 50–51; Regent Street 58; Ritz Hotel 60; Tate Modern 53; trade-union demonstration, March 2011 57–61; Trafalgar Square 47; Victoria Street 50; Victorinox 59

London School of Oriental and African Studies, occupation of 44–46

López, Fernando 166–67, 170

Lopez, Gina 200–2

Lopez Inc. 200–2

Loubere, Leo 174

Loukanikos (riot dog) 94, 96

L'Ouverture, Toussaint 149

LulzSec 151

McIntyre, Jody 51

McPherson, James 182

Madison, Wisconsin revolt 184–87

Madrid 33

Mahalla uprising, 2008 10, 71

Maher, Ahmed 83

Mahfouz, Asmaa, @AsmaaMahfouz 11, 177

Mahmoud (Zamalek Sporting Club ultra) 16–17

Makati, Manila 204–6

malnutrition 9

Mandelson, Peter 17, 26, 114

Manila 33; Estero de Paco 200–2; Estero de San Miguel 196–99; Makati 204–6; waterways 200–2

manipulated consciousness 29–30

Manufacturing Consent
(Chomsky and Herman) 28–29

Mao Tse Tung 46

Marxism 141–45

Marx, Karl 46, 141–45, 174, 187, 188–89, 190, 192