Monthly Archives: July 2011

The Power of Networks By David de Ugarte

What Is This Book About? That we are living in changing times and that those changes have something to do with ”social networks” has become a commonplace, almost a cliché, by now. And yet nobody seems to be very clear about what those networks are, and, above all, what is new about them. After all, if the   networks   we   are   talking   about   are   the   networks established   by   people   when   they   interact,   society   has always   … Continue reading

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Why Socialism? Albert Einstein | Monthly Review

Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). It was subsequently published in May 1998 to commemorate the first issue of MR‘s fiftieth year.—The Editors Is it advisable for one who … Continue reading

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150,000+ demonstrate for social justice in Israel | ROARMAG

By Jérôme E. Roos On July 31, 2011 For two weeks already, angry Israelis have been camped out in squares across the country. Last night, the protests culminated into an historic march.The world is shaking, and the revolutionary wave washing across the Mediterranean … Continue reading

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Developing trade unionism in the crisis | Red Pepper

Unions must rise to the challenge of the cuts by empowering local branches and developing wider civil society resistance says Huw Beynon In spite of talk of coming out of recession, it is clear that the UK, and western capitalism … Continue reading

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What Is Networganising? – UnionBook

Via SNU Workgroup on Unionbook Networganising is different than both organising and networking. It is actually the synthesis of the best parts of the two. It does not only involve convincing people to join in a rank-and-file army in order to … Continue reading

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Operation Acts of Kindness (Made by DutchBast3rD and Revolutionary for The Plan)

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What is Anonymous? What is “The Plan”?

 

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Join Anonymous – Join Resistance

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Message from Anonymous to world leaders. [English voice #SpanishRevolution]

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Support the people of Greece, Spain, Ireland, Porteguese, US, Egypt, Tunisia, Israel, Yemen, Syria, China, and many others! – UnionBook

Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide Support the people of Greece, Spain, Ireland, Porteguese, US, Egypt, Tunisia, Israel, Yemen, Syria, China, and many others, join our UnionBook Group! One World, One Union, One Revolution! All for One one … Continue reading

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One World One Revolution

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Together, wherever you work – a union approach to precariat

I want to thank Peter Hall-Jones of the New Unionism Network for sharing this with us. It looks like a pioneering experiment on  Social Network Unionism by unions themselves comes from his home land, the New Zealand. These kinds of initiatives are very … Continue reading

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Life, Labour and Climate Justice – A Challenge to the ITUC\ILO Worldview? (Andrew Ross, Autonomedia – UnionBook

Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide Andrew Ross As radicals, it is our job to respond to the very newest political formations, and few have presented themselves with the urgency of the tendencies that have sprung up to … Continue reading

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Work, Production and The Common: A Provocation | A Tribe of Moles

Questions of decent work and employment have been central to the social antagonisms and political convulsions of postapartheid South Africa. In the wake of the 2007 Polokwane conference, leadership changes and policy shifts in the ANC have focused on the … Continue reading

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The SHIH of Organizing | New Unionism

This is the second article in a series on organization development and organizing by Rex Lai, MSOD*. The first was “The TAO of Organizing.” Translated literally, Tao means the way or the path. It aslo stands for Theoretical and Applied Organizing, … Continue reading

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Beyond resistance – building People’s Assemblies!

Communities whose services and living standards are under unprecedented assault by the Con-Lib coalition government should establish their independence from the state through building People’s Assemblies and move beyond resistance. Delegates to the Assemblies will represent ordinary people’s interests, whether … Continue reading

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GAIA Launches #Networganising Campaign | GAIA

We are building a peerage base for the new peer to peer, distributed and organised social network union GAIA – Global Alliance for Immediate Alteration. Join us and invite your friends and colleagues to involve! If you are outraged because you are unemployed, … Continue reading

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From Lulz to Labor Unions: The Evolution of Anonymous | The Atlantic

MAR 4 2011, 12:11 PM  The fuzzy goals of the loosely affiliated group Anonymous have changed in the last year. It wasn’t so long ago that Anonymous staked its identity on relentlessly subverting culture for the lulz. The group became … Continue reading

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The grand alliance for the commons: the task of 21 cy. politics | Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens. 2nd April 2010 In my writings on P2P Theory, I have a rather simple, but I believe true, formula to describe the crisis of the global system of neoliberal capitalism. Namely, – i.e. based on a false belief that … Continue reading

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On the edge of a #globalrevolution? | Take the Square

Posted by European Revolution on 07/18/2011 in Analysis, Articles · 0 Comments By the Editorial Team of World without Wars and Violence.   What do Bolivia, Iceland, Tunisia, Egypt and Spain all have in common?  Besides being famous respectively for; ladies in bowler hats, volcanoes, mosaics, pyramids … Continue reading

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