This issue of the openmute journal features an interview with John Barker, a conversation between Tiziana Terranova and Marc Bousquet and essays by Massimo De Angelis, David Graeber, Silvia Federici, Stewart Martin. The main topics are the current crisis in the financial markets, the neoliberalisation of education, feminist and materialist critiques of immaterial labour and the proletarianisation of the middle class. It also includes a series of reports on recent protests against neoliberalisation and a glossary with key terms.