Month: December 2012

  • Images of state employees – slideshow

    Images of state employees – slideshow

    These images of state employees were produced by ATE for a calendar to celebrate their 85th Anniversary ATE in particular is very proud of the range of state employees that they represent. It has several implications: first just the fact of ATE needing to bring together a very broad-based class alliance, and to get a…

  • Formalising personnel (in Spanish)

    In 2009 there was a great ad encouraging employers to ‘blanquear’ their personnel, which means formalising, registering them – there was a tax moratorium enabling that without penalties. I was clearly not the only person to notice this, as it provoked some comments on blogs, etc. Here is the ad itself + a parody version…

  • Video clips for El Alto Rebel City

    The video clips for El Alto Rebel City are now available here. I’m working – gradually – on some visual material, with the very patient help of Meg Jamieson. We have prepared some clips illustrating similarities between dances, parades and demonstrations in Bolivia, and these are the ones that I have just posted. We’ve also…