Category Archives: Organisation

Transformative Power: Political organisation in transition by Hilary Wainwright

Posted on November 16, 2012 by

16 November 2012 Hilary Wainwright Socialist Register In a context of uncertainty and flux, it helps to start from the specific. My starting point is the rise of Syriza, the radical left coalition rooted in the movements resisting austerity that has become … Continue reading →

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Open Source / Libre Training Material (in progress) on Social Media for Grassroots Labour Activism | NetwOrganisation

Posted on October 31, 2012 by

P2P AND TRANSNATIONAL EXCHANGE AT THE SHOP-FLOOR LEVEL: Social media and online networking guide for shop stewards and union activists MODULE I – prepared for and by the support of TIE-Netherlands  Introduction Stronger ties with online networking Tools for cybermeetings and webinars Bottom up publishing … Continue reading →

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The Dramatic Rise of Peer-to-Peer Communication within the emancipatory movements Reflections of an International Labour, Social Justice and Cyber Activist

Posted on October 23, 2012 by

In the article I give a personal review on some of the important spaces of convergence and mobilisations some of which took place in 2011 and 2012 and others are currently being planned: like, 15O, Joint Social Conferences, Hub Meetings … Continue reading →

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Social and political movements related to the P2P (participatory), open (open access to knowledge), and ‘commons’ paradigms | P2P Foundation

Posted on October 10, 2012 by

A directory of social and political movements related to the P2P (participatory), open (open access to knowledge), and ‘commons’ paradigms. Please read: Mapping a Coalition for the Commons. By Philippe Aigrain. Contents [hide] 1 Introduction 2 Sister Organizations 3 Citations 3.1 On P2P dialogue across … Continue reading →

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Exploring the commons by Marco Berlinguer | OpenDemocracy

Posted on October 9, 2012 by

MARCO BERLINGUER , 12 July 2012 Today’s rediscovery of the notion of the commons stems directly from the need to regulate and to explore how to enable the collaborative action of a multiplicity of protagonists who are autonomous and so not governable … Continue reading →

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ISTANBUL’S URGENT CALL FOR SOLIDARITY TO STOP THE WAR BETWEEN TURKEY & SYRIA!! | INTEROCCUPY.NET

Posted on October 4, 2012 by

Today they finally managed to manufactured a war between Turkey and Syria, this will surely lead to a NATO intervention and reaction from Iran, Israel, Russia and China. We need to stop this immediately! by creating the lagest anti-war campaign … Continue reading →

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INTEROCCUPY NEWSLETTER FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2012

Posted on September 26, 2012 by

  SERVICES GET INVOLVED By badger On September 25, 2012 · 11 Comments This is the InterOccupy newsletter for the week of September 25th, 2012. You can also access the newsletter here – which is the best place to read it. To receive this newsletter in your inbox … Continue reading →

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Rank & File Participation and International Union Democracy | GLC via Peter Waterman

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

Posted by peter waterman on September 16, 2012 at 8:00 Send Message   View Blog Peter sez: A surprising and gratifying piece, by a Swiss and European union officer, that reveals the gradual impact of the new social movement, civil society and global justice … Continue reading →

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Liquid Democracy by Godfrey Moase

Posted on September 16, 2012 by

I, like an ever decreasing number of my fellow Australians, am a frustrated member of a mainstream political party. In the usual run of affairs being a member of a political party involves three modes: being ignored, being used or … Continue reading →

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New Unionism Network discusses `How to build real global unions?`

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

So what do YOU think??? Network members have been bouncing around a couple of tricky questions for the last few years. We think it’s time to start generating (and sharing) some answers. 1) How do we start building real global unions? 2) … Continue reading →

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A New Age of Revolutions has Arrived | via Domus

Posted on June 22, 2012 by

The fundamental moment in which design becomes a political tool has arrived. Whatever we choose to call it — P2P culture, peer production movement, open-P2P-design — will we be able to find new meaning cooperatively? Will we be able to … Continue reading →

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P2P revolution in 10 minutes

Posted on June 7, 2012 by

http://english.lasindias.com/p2p-revolution-in-10-minutes/#comment-118 Can the story of a historical change and its consequences be told in 10 minutes? We think we can at least give the headlines of a new world. We just arrived back from Inteligencias Colectivas Bilbo. We had ten minutes, … Continue reading →

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Commons/P2P Next Steps: Creating Sustainable Commons Based Institutions

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

A major theme that came up throughout our first School of Commoning workshop with Michel Bauwens concerned the need to co-create sustainable commons based institutions. The overriding sentiment was to create institutions that are commons and are therefore inherently sustainable by their nature. … Continue reading →

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Organizing P2P organizations

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

April 7, 2011 — Poor Richard Image via Wikipedia I probably should have titled this “Hacking the Organization”. What follows is not a primer of organizational design but simply a back-of-the-envelope sketch of how a number of organizational design and … Continue reading →

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Blueprint for P2P Society: The Partner State & Ethical Economy

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

By Michel Bauwens, 04.07.12 Image: Dave Gray A new way to produce is emerging. By this I mean: a new way to produce anything and everything, whether it is software, food, or cities. What once required rigid organisations and a society defined by the … Continue reading →

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Indignad@s Occupy Biennale

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

Anonymous - Mon, 2012-04-16 01:59 We create an aesthetic and political experiment in the Berlin Biennale space for people from all over the world to gather, organize assemblies, direct action, interactive self-education, strategy-development and other forms of politico-social engagement. Thus we … Continue reading →

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Lenin and Occupy by Pham Binh | The Bullet

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

Many socialists have cheered Lars Lih’s demolition of the textbook interpretation of Lenin’s work in Lenin Rediscovered(2008) without examining how many of our own preconceptions on the subject are now part of the same pile of rubble. The fact that Occupy … Continue reading →

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15M Global Strike – What is the plan? | Take the Square

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

1/ BACKGROUND AND GEOGRAPHIC EXPANSION 2/ PRINCIPLES AND DEMANDS, AIMS OF THE MOVEMENT 3/ 15M GLOBAL STRIKE AND SYSTEMATIC EXPANSION 1.1 Arab Spring: One goal, One strategy The Arab Spring was sparked by the first protests that occurred in Tunisia on 18 … Continue reading →

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‘Occupy’ as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation by Michel Bauwens | Al Jazeera

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a model for a new economic paradigm, in which value is first created by communities. In Zuccotti Park, protesters created an ‘ethical economy’ based on the group’s shared values [GALLO/GETTY] Chiang Mai, Thailand - Last week I … Continue reading →

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[Occupy/Inidgnados] [May'12] #12M15M Newsletter – issue No 3 | via Dr. TR. Rojas

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

Dear comrades, Here goes!! Already the third issue of the Newsletter dedicated to offer updates form Assemblies around the world that are preparing actions next May 2012. Please share and spread, paste it in your facebook groups, send it to … Continue reading →

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