Daily Archives: May 21, 2012

Referendum in Ireland on the AUSTERITY TREATY: Ireland vote NO for us!

Action of solidarity to the Irish No campaign by CEO, CNE, CAE and Ander Europa on Wednesday 23 May at 18.00 close to the EU Summit (Rue la Loi / Wetstraat 220 between Schuman and Cinquantenaire, Brussels 1000) The 31st … Continue reading

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The Breakdown of Global Capitalism: 2000-2030 | CEO

May 16, 2012 – 11:09 A year ago, on May 10th 2011, the Spanish activist and writer Ramón Fernández Durán died. Together with the Transnational Institute and Ecologistas en Acción, Corporate Europe Observatory has just published an English edition of … Continue reading

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Co-operatise the state? by Hilary Wainwright | red pepper

Can the co-op movement be one source of alternatives to marketisation? Hilary Wainwright explores In the free-for-all over the spoils of the public sector, Tory ministers are playing fast and loose with the concepts of co-operatives and mutuals. They talk … Continue reading

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The Peer to Peer Manifesto: The Emergence of P2P Civilization and Political Economy by Michel Bauwens

Our current political economy is based on a fundamental mistake. It is based on the assumption that natural resources are unlimited, and that it is an endless sink. This false assumption creates artificial scarcity for potentially abundant cultural resources. This combination of quasi-abundance and quasi-scarcity destroys … Continue reading

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Michel Bauwens on the Peer Production Economy

December 12, 2008 | by David Bollier Photo by “Gullig,”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullig/1552514539 via Flickr, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Last week, in my post about “peak hierarchy,” I referred to a talk by Michel Bauwens of The P2P Foundation at UMass Amherst … Continue reading

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