Monthly Archives: December 2011

Samir Amin: the era of social compromise is over | via Michel Bauwens

At the start of this important essay, Samir Amin writes that: “Contemporary capitalism is a capitalism of generalized monopolies. By this I mean that monopolies are now no longer islands (albeit important) in a sea of other still relatively autonomous companies, but are an … Continue reading

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III. International Labor and Communication Conference 2012

III. International Labor and Communication Conference (May 7th-8th 2012, Ankara, TURKEY) As a part of The Seventh International Labor Film & Video Festival Labor communication academics and activists will come together during the III. International Labor and Communication Conference as a … Continue reading

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Understanding the Occupy Movement by Kim Scipes | ZSpace

Some Reflections, Thoughts and Suggestions December 30, 2011 By Kim Scipes Kim Scipes’s ZSpace Page Over three and a half months in, and the Occupy Wall Street Movement has spread across the United States and across the world. Obviously, the best … Continue reading

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Real Democracy and the Future of Work? by Mark Barret

In the spirit of a Popular Assembly, the Right to Work Campaign have kindly offered me the opportunity to blog about the Spanish Real Democracy Movement.  As part of this,  I would like to put forward a personal view on the future of work in … Continue reading

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Dmytri Kleiner: Is capitalism compatible with free P2P Systems? | via Michel Bauwens

Excerpted from Dmytri Kleiner’s mailing list: “In the meantime, I’d like to reflect a little on Evgeny Morozov’s keynote at #28c3 this morning. The topic was Surveillance Enabling Technologies. Long story short, Telecoms, Tech Firms, and Governments are developing and … Continue reading

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2012 international road to dignity

Road subject to changes. Camino sujeto a cambios.

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#15M 2012 Transition day alternatives / Alternative al 15M 2012 giorno della transizione / Alternativas para el 15M 2012 Transition day [ENG/ITA/ESP]

We are a group of people created starting from the 15-M movement, from many different places, which has joined initiatives in order to connect rural alternatives all over the country and this way contribute to build bridges between rural and … Continue reading

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Global Square: “a Facebook for the 99%” | ROAR & WIRED

By Jerome Roos On December 28, 2011 Tech magazine Wired just covered our proposal for the Global Square, an online platform for the Occupy movement and a model for direct global democracy. Dear friends and followers, We’ve been taking a much-needed break for the past … Continue reading

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Developing WikiStrike as a Counter Swarm-Attack Strategy for the 99% | via Global Guerrillas

Tuesday, 18 May 2004 GLOBAL GUERRILLA SWARMING Swarming tactics have been used successfully in wars throughout history by a variety of organizations from the tribal Parthians (horse archers) to 20th century Germans (U-boats). Global guerrillas (next generation terrorists) will likely … Continue reading

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Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop–from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication

Neil Gershenfeld Basic Books, 6 feb. 2007 – 288 pagina’s What if you could someday put the manufacturing power of an automobile plant on your desktop? According to Neil Gershenfeld, the renowned MIT scientist and inventor, the next big thing … Continue reading

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The Homebrew Industrial Revolution | Kevin Carson

A Low Overhead Manifesto About The Homebrew Industrial Revolution is based on a series of research papers on industrial history I did at Center for a Stateless Society. In writing Organization Theory:  A Libertarian Perspective, I found myself most engaged in researching the material … Continue reading

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Public Libraries, 3D Printing, FabLabs and Hackerspaces

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What Possibilities for Global Labor? | Global Dialogue (via P.Waterman)

November 19, 2011 by Robert Lambert, University of Western Australia, former President of the ISA Research Committee on Labor Movements Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and that such illumination may well … Continue reading

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We are the 146% – Russians Refuse to be Rooked as 120,000 March in Moscow | via #OWS

Earlier this month, tens of thousands of Russians marched in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and several other cities decrying the recent parliamentary election results. In the largest series of protests since the fall of the Soviet Union 20 years ago people … Continue reading

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A proposal for governance in the post 2011 world | WL Central

Submitted by Heather Marsh on Sat, 12/24/2011 – 18:35 Optimism is a political act. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience. – Alex Steffen The world is long overdue for a completely new system of governance. The need for political representation or … Continue reading

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Communication Power | Manuel Castells

Description Hailed by The Financial Times as “the most prominent and influential theorist and analyst of the modern communications and network age,” Manuel Castells here offers a ground-breaking account of the modern communication revolution, a dramatic transformation of technology–and of the signals … Continue reading

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#euhackathon ChokePoint Project release | P2P Foundation

Source: ChokePoint Project   Finally, a release! Above is a screenshot of our first, very beta release ofeuhackathon.chokepointproject.net It was put together for the 1st EUhackathon held in Brussels on November 8th & 9th 2011. It’s a prototype, a proof of concept. Here’s the ‘About’ … Continue reading

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Inter-National Relations from Below: Rising P2P Mode of Foreign Relations

by Örsan Şenalp, June 2011

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Solving the Differential Equation of Transnational Soldarity: Networking labour and social movements against the state-capital partnerships

by Örsan Şenalp, January 2009

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Modes of Foreign Relations vs Uneven and Combined Development: The Marxist Legacy and Relations between and within Alienated Societies

Many streams within Western Marxism treat the totality of modern societies as if they are mere products of capitalism, and often consider relations among those societies within the context of the already-established capitalist world system. Neither so-called classical Marxists nor … Continue reading

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