Monthly Archives: February 2011

Networks, Movements, Uninos meet for Joint Social Conference March 2011, thu 10th and fri 11th, Brussels – ITUH Building / Draft declaration

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

http://www.jointsocialconference.eu/ Some twenty unions and social movements (at European or national level – see “Who we are ?” are preparing, before the EU “Spring Summit” their own “Social Spring conference” March the 10th & 11th 2011. Draft declaration now available … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | Leave a comment

The union of DAta Miners/ Travailleurs Psychique

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

The union of DAta Miners/ Travailleurs Psychique has emerged from the involvement of IWW workers in the Alytus Art Strike in 2009. It is currently in formation, non dues paying, experimental forum for the united action of different workers around … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | Leave a comment

26 propositions on networking, labour and solidarity under/against/beyond a globalised and informatised capitalism (P. Waterman)

Posted on February 28, 2011 by

1. Networking is becoming the dominant ‘relational form’ under capitalism; 2. It is a highly contradictory form which can, however, be more fully, creatively and democratically used by popular, radical-democratic and anti-capitalist forces; 3. Notions of networking and internationalism, understood … Continue reading →

Posted in Alliances, Exchange, Participation, Solidarity | 2 Comments

The Political Economy of Peer Production – Michel Bauwens

Posted on February 26, 2011 by

Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a deeper transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As political, economic, and social systems transform themselves into distributed … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | 9 Comments

NetzwerkIT: Self-Expression of Interests versus Interest-Representation

Posted on February 25, 2011 by

The Netzwerk IT website is in German, in general. Below text is taken from their leaflet in English [About Us page]. NetzwerkIT is an impressive and developed case for our Social Network Unionism project! It is very similar to new transnational social network union GAIA, actually its regional level -in 4 German speaking … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Exchange, Organising, Participation, Solidarity | Leave a comment

GAIA / Towards a Global Labour Charter

Posted on February 22, 2011 by

In response to Peter Waterman’s call, GAIA, New Transnational Social Network Union [experiment] launches a wiki Charter building page. The below text taken from there.  “The items below are Australia Asia Worker Link (AAWL)’s proposal for a Global Labour Charter. GAIA supports this initiative and … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | 2 Comments

The New Toolkit, for hyperempowered labour class

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

The New Toolkit, Mark Pesce (via the human network) This article will be published in the Blackwell Companion to New Media Dynamics. Introduction: The Age of Connection Anthropologists have appropriated the word ‘toolkit’ to describe the suite of technologies that … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | 4 Comments

LabourLeaks for an open and democratic unionism?

Posted on February 19, 2011 by

Peter Waterman has joined the term ‘LabourLeaks’ during a Unionbook correspondence. He was signalling the possibility that is  opening up for ‘WikiLeaks’ like impact on corrupt union-state-capital relationships, by the utilisation of sort of a social network unionism. OpenLeaks, the new project initiated by ex-Wikileaks … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Alliances, Exchange, Participation, Solidarity | Tagged , , , | 8 Comments

Organizing 2.0

Posted on February 18, 2011 by

Organizing 2.0 is an annual training event held in New York City. It is a volunteer run event offering training in online organizing, digital strategy and use of online tools. Organizing 2.0 is a collective of communicators and online organizers … Continue reading →

Posted in Organising, Training | Leave a comment

EMPIRE: Social Networks, Social Revolution

Posted on February 17, 2011 by

Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation. Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall?

Posted in Activism, Alliances, Exchange, Participation, Solidarity | Leave a comment

Mapping the production process, organizing and P2P social networks: Building ‘shopfloor transnationalism’

Posted on February 16, 2011 by

Below text is excerpted from TIE-Netherlands’ website. TIE-Netherlands describes itself as a non-profit organisation which is committed to the advancement and strengthening of independent and democratic trade unionism. It is part of an independent international network which works to educate, advice and … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | Leave a comment

GAIA-SNU joins ALTER-EU Coalition

Posted on February 15, 2011 by

GAIA, New Transnational Social Network Union, joins ALTER-EU coalition. ALTER-EU stands for Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation. It is a coalition of over 160 public interest groups, trade unions, academics and public affairs firms concerned with the increasing … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Social Network Unionism case study from Unite Scottish organisers (via Cyberunions)

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

Case study: Unite Scottish organisers and technology 9 Feb 2011 In organising we need to be a wee bit off the wall because it works. – Finance sector seconded rep, Female, 31-40 There are a number of different organising models within … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | Leave a comment

Needed: a global labour charter movement

Posted on February 12, 2011 by

 Peter Waterman This Charter was first floated in 2005. It has been published in labour publications in South Africa and Colombia as well as on websites in Europe and the US. The present version has been updated and provided with … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | 1 Comment

Precariat meet’n'greet (via NewUnionism’s Blog)

Posted on February 11, 2011 by

I just discovered this article of Peter Hall Jones, very important source for Social Network Unionism: The New Unionists of the late 19th century built trade unions as we know them by organizing the proletariat – the working class of … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | Leave a comment

Open source trade unions (via Cyberunions)

Posted on February 10, 2011 by

From Walton Pantland, Scottish Peer Unionist: Is Open Source organising the way forward for trade unions? Some people seem to think so, but are we even sure what it means? Trade unions in the West have been in decline since … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | Leave a comment

The Telekommunist Manifesto: Peer-to-Peer Communism vs. The Client-Server Capitalist State, Dmytri Kleiner, October 2010

Posted on February 8, 2011 by

Peer-to-Peer Communism vs. The Client-Server Capitalist State Society is composed of social relations. These form the structures that constitute it. Computer networks, like economic systems, then may be described in terms of social relations. Advocates of communism have long described … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | 5 Comments

The battle over social-media revolutions

Posted on February 5, 2011 by

Did Twitter Make Them Do It? By Jesse LichtensteinPosted Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, at 12:56 PM ET Read more of Slate‘s coverage of the Egyptian protests. Is there a final answer yet on social-media revolutions?At some point, cable talking heads … Continue reading →

Posted in Movements | Leave a comment