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Monthly Archives: April 2011
The Principle of Notworking – Geert Lovink | Institute of Network Cultures
The Principle of Notworking Concepts in Critical Internet Culture “In this essay I present ongoing theoretical work, developed throughout 2004, the year I took up the position of ‘lector’ at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. I will focus on three conceptual … Continue reading
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Networked Politics – Barcelona Reader | Transnational Institute
Networked Politics January 2008 Networked Politics is the product of a collaborative research process for rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks. In a world where the traditional institutions of democratic control have been weakened by … Continue reading
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May Day – the Real Labor Day | l.gaylord@m.cc.utah.edu
Workers of the world, awaken! Rise in all your splendid might Take the wealth that you are making, It belongs to you by right. No one will for bread be crying We’ll have freedom, love and health, When the grand … Continue reading
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What happens after the rally? Four ideas for strengthening the campaign against the cuts | Power In Coalition
An article from Australian community organiser and the author of “Power In Coalition” Amanda Tattersall. Her ideas are also applicable for union-commuity colaitions well beyond the UK. “Politics in the UK is at a crossroads. The government has presented its vision of a radical overhaul … Continue reading
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Why Self-Organized Networks Will Destroy Hierarchies — A Credo by Kevin Carson | C4SS (via P2P Foundation)
Hierarchies are systematically stupid and inefficient, for the following reasons. 1. Hayekian information problems: The people in authority who make the rules interfere with the people who know how to do the job and are in direct contact with the … Continue reading
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Results of the first annual survey of trade union use of the net, Eric Lee | Unionbook
The total number of participants in the survey was 1,336 making it one of the largest we’ve ever done. The countries providing the largest number of responses were predictably mostly Anglophone as the survey was only conducted in English this time. Here … Continue reading
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Reinventing the Left – From Sectoral to Class Unions (via Peter Waterman)
Rebuilding the Left in a Time of Crisis | Edward Lewis discusses with Leo Panitch Edward Lewis (EL): In In and Out of Crisis you comment that the financial crisis opens up the possibility of reversing the many defeats that … Continue reading
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A New Trade Unionism in the Making? | The Bullet
Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 488 April 8, 2011 Hilary Wainwright It’s exciting to contribute to a discussion where trade unions are moving on to the high ground and proposing alternatives, in alliances with groups sharing a common interest in … Continue reading
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Trade unions: the revolutionary social network at play in Egypt and Tunisia | Eric Lee & Benjamin Weinthal
The media have focused on Facebook and Twitter, but the pro-democracy movements have flourished thanks to unions Eric Lee and Benjamin Weinthal guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 February 2011 12.57 GMT Egyptian textile workers demonstrating over high prices and low wages in … Continue reading
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Union launches social network site | Union Renewal
Below post is from Union Renewal blog. It goes about the ‘JobCircle’ experiment that was initiated by one of the Dutch trade unions of which I am a member, FNV Bondgenoten. Altough the project failed and stopped, at leasat for the moment, it constitutes one of the prominent … Continue reading
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Rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and networks | TNI
Hilary Wainwright, Oscar Reyes, Marco Berlinguer, Fiona Dove, Mayo Fuster I Morrell and Joan Subirats (eds), 15 May 2007 Abstract Networked Politics is the product of a collaborative research process for rethinking political organisation in an age of movements and … Continue reading
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Movements, networks and new forms of organisation | Networked Politics
Below you will find a presentation of the problematics of the line of inquiry on Movements, Network and New Forms of Organisation by Marco Berlinguer (contact: marco.berlinguer(at)transform.it) and the map of issues produced by Networked Politics team at Barcelona seminar. http://www.networked-politics.info/?page_id=12 … Continue reading
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