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Monthly Archives: August 2011
LETS LINK THE 15.O GLOBAL REVOLUTION TO #M1GS, #12M15 GLOBAL SPRING – OCCUPY THE WORLD
For a social structure free from classes, work, money, bankers, exploitation, states, borders, warlords, dictators and based on all the commons we share… Join the world wide open source strikes and demonstrations on 1, 12 and 15 May 2012! Reoccupy … Continue reading
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A European appeal against financial dictatorship | The Science of Destruction
This appeal was originated by the French online journal Mediapart. You can read the original text and sign the appeal here. The English translation is by Yours Truly, so if there are any misunderstandings in it, you’ll know who to … Continue reading
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Writing Peoples’ Global P2P Constitution[s] | P2P Foundation
Örsan Şenalp, 28th August 2011 Peter Waterman has been calling for a Global Labour Charter Movement for already a some time. The following link is to his updated text published by a shop-floor activism project NetzwerkIT. An earlier version can be found here:. … Continue reading
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FROM SOCIAL NETWORKS TO WORLD REVOLUTION
At the very moment progressive forces across the globe like ATTAC, Alter-EU, Democracy Real Now, Anonymous, Take the Square and many others trying to align with each other for the peaceful 17th September Paris and Wall Street occupations and 15-O … Continue reading
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Hello Wall Street – We Are Anonymous
http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swfbin/watch_as3-vflpHt5Gk.swf Anonymous, Wikileaks, Alter EU. ATTAC, DRY, 15M, … progressive forces are aligning for change across the Atlantic. If renewed, open minded, and revolutionary labour and trade union forces join in this grand alliance in the making there might be … Continue reading
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Joint mobilizations and European-level coordinated actions | ATTAC – DRY
15th of October: Explicit support for the 15th of October mobilization by the ATTAC Europe network. This will be a day of coordinated action where each national ATTAC group decides what concrete actions they will take for the mobilizations. The … Continue reading
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NEEDED: A GLOBAL LABOUR CHARTER MOVEMENT – P. Waterman | Netzwerk IT
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide[T]he material basis for international working-class solidarity is greater than at any point since the development of capitalism. Nevertheless, the existence of a material basis does not ensure success. Movement from the general … Continue reading
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The characteristics of the 15M Movement: the key to changing the world and our own lives | Take the Square
In the wake of the recent police-mediated eviction of Punto Sol (our information centre at Puerta del Sol, Madrid) and subsequent developments (police siege of Puerta del Sol, closure of the square’s underground and train stations, spontaneous demonstrations on surrounding … Continue reading
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Global Class Warfare: Global Capitalist Class vs. New Transnational Labour Class | P2P Foundation
Orsan Senalp, 22nd August 2011 Italian communist and political activist Antonio Gramsci’s core concepts like hegemony, organic crisis, passive revolution, historic bloc, transformismo, war of position and war of manoeuvre are central for our understanding of today’s complex global capitalist … Continue reading
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Passive revolution: are the rich starting to get scared? | ROARMAG
By Jérôme E. Roos On August 20, 2011 Warren Buffet wants to tax the rich, Forbes warns about a global class war and Nouriel Roubini says that Marx was right about capitalism. What’s going on?It was a week of opposites. As stock markets … Continue reading
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15 OCT #united for global change
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism WorldwideUNITED FOR GLOBAL CHANGE OCTOBER On October 15th citizens around the world will take to the streets to express outrage at how our rights are being undermined by the alliance between politicians … Continue reading
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Join us together with grassroots movements from Europe and the US to curb corporate influence and reclaim democracy!
With: Annabel Park of the ‘Coffee Party’, Susan George, Public Citizen’s Craig Holman, 15May / Indignados activists, UK Uncut, Italian referendum activist Tommaso Fattori, Austrian political scientist Hubert Sickinger and many more! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dear friends, We are pleased to invite you to ALTER-EU’s conference ‘Curb … Continue reading
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Is one world possible? Practices of ‘International Solidarity’ and ‘International Development’ 47th Linz Conference: 29 September — 2 October 2011
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide Organized by:International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) and Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria The objective of the ITH Conference 2011 is to discuss Solidarity and Development at international level … Continue reading
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You Only Love Us When We Strike
By Ewa Jasiewicz Friday, July 29, 2011 The anarchist (broadly speaking) critique of mainstream trade unions is well known, and valid. Big unions are arbiters and enforcers of social peace, supporters of the Labour Party, which is part of the system … Continue reading
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Swarmwise: What Is A Swarm? / SNU: Swarm is a P2P OrgNet!
Swarmwise: What Is A Swarm? A Swarm is a new kind of organization, made possible by available and affordable mass communication. Where it used to take hundreds of full-time employees to organize 100,000 people, today that can be done — … Continue reading
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The Urban Riots in Britain (David Harvey and…Karl Marx) | via P. Waterman
Feral Capitalism Hits The Streets David Harvey “Nihilistic and feral teenagers” the Daily Mail called them: the crazy youths from all walks of life who raced around the streets mindlessly and desperately hurling bricks, stones and bottles at the cops while looting … Continue reading
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Applying swarm theory to networked union organising | Cyberunions
by WALTON PANTLAND on AUGUST 8, 2011 · LEAVE A COMMENT · in ORGANISING TACTICS,THEORY Beautifully demonstrated by this video, swarm theory is an idea from biology that proposes that large groups can solve complex problems very efficiently. For instance, ant colonies can quickly find the richest food source, bees … Continue reading
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Under, Against, Beyond: Labour and Social Movements Confront a Globalised, Informatised, Capitalism | Into-eBooks | into-ebooks.com
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide Almost 1000 pages of Peter Waterman’s Working Papers on labour and global movements. Peter Waterman (London 1936) is a veteran activist-researcher in and on labour, social movements, the old and new internationalisms. … Continue reading
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