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Znet Article Suggett: Venezuela’s Homemakers Union: An Interview with Founder and Coordinator Lizardi Prada

Znet Article, July, 12 2009 James Suggett
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In this interview Lizardi Prada gives insight into the fight for women's rights in the Venezuelan context. Prada speaks about the union's creation and day-to-day functioning, it's agenda for homemakers' rights, it's relationship to the Catholic Ch...

Znet Article Genschel: The Parliamentary Group of the LEFT's Social Movement Liaison Office: A Self-Portrayal

Znet Article, July, 10 2009 Corinna Genschel
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With the arrival of the LEFT (DIE LINKE) in the Bundestag in 2005, a liaison office for social movements (and trade unions) as well as groups, initiatives and NGOs of the extra-parliamentary left was established by a parliamentary group represente...

Znet Article Rai: Thinking Strategically: Bigger Cages For Stronger Movements

Znet Article, July, 10 2009 Milan Rai
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Teaching a course on strategy to a group of 12-year-olds was very helpful. Perhaps teaching any topic to 12-year-olds is helpful to a ‘teacher' trying to get to grips with what it is being taught. Among other things, I gradually realized that th...

Znet Article Glick: If You Want a Revolution, Start With a Clean Energy One

Znet Article, July, 10 2009 Ted Glick
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications

Znet Article Roy: Is democracy a hit with humans because it mirrors our myopia?

Znet Article, July, 07 2009 Arundhati Roy
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While we're still arguing about whether there's life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By democracy I don't mean democracy as an ideal or an aspiration. I mean the wo...

Znet Article Hill: Fragments of an Anarchist Public Health: Developing Visions of a Healthy Society

Znet Article, July, 07 2009 Marcus Hill
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Taking note of intensifying anarchist social movements worldwide, the goal of this paper is to provide some vision through relating the objectives of these movements to discourse going on within the area of public health - specifically, taking int...

Znet Article Burchett: The Ten Principles Of Bandung

Znet Article, July, 06 2009 George Burchett
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In May this year I visited the Museum Of The Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia.

Commentary Jensen: Beyond Independence: We are most free when we are most bo

Commentary, July, 04 2009 Robert Jensen
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Power is typically approached as a question of dominance and submission. Power is marked by the ability to impose or the ability to resist that imposition. This is what some have called “power-over,” which assumes a zero-sum game in which indi...

Znet Article Wilpert: What Might Be 21st Century Socialism?

Znet Article, June, 23 2009 Gregory Wilpert
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez has recently popularized the idea that we should re-imagine society on the basis of what he calls "21st Century Socialism." Unfortunately, while Chávez and his supporters provide a number of hints as to what thi...

Znet Article Houtart: Proposal For A Universal Declaration On The Common Well-Being Of Humanity

Znet Article, June, 22 2009 Francois Houtart
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Confronted as we are by a financial crisis which is affecting the world economy and which combines with a food, energy and climate crisis that is leading to a social and humanitarian catastrophe, various reactions are being expressed.

Znet Article Lipow: Growing a Better World

Znet Article, June, 22 2009 Gar Lipow
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"Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth." So begins "Prosperity Without Growth"[1], the report of the UK government's Sustainable Development Commission. Questioning growth has been the obsessive foc...

Znet Article Greeman: How to get from Here to There: A Modern 'Archimedes Hypothesis'

Znet Article, June, 21 2009 Richard Greeman
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By all appearances, capitalism, decadent since the First World War is rapidly descending into economic depression, social barbarism and ecological suicide. In 2009, slowly reforming the system - always a dubious proposition - seems less and less p...

Znet Article Baker: Envisioning the Future Requires Knowing the Present

Znet Article, June, 20 2009 Dean Baker
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As every backcountry hiker recognizes, you must first know where you are before you can figure out how to get to where you want to be. While it is important to know where we want to go, progressives often badly misunderstand where we are now.

Znet Article Milstein: Anarchism's Promise for Anticapitalist Resistance

Znet Article, June, 18 2009 Cindy Milstein
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For many, a "new anarchism" seemed to have been birthed amid the cold rain and toxic fog that greeted the November 1999 World Trade Organization protest. Yet rather than the bastard child of an emergent social movement, this radical politics of re...

Znet Article Suggett: Chávez Hosts TV Series of Socialist Theory

Znet Article, June, 17 2009 James Suggett
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On Thursday evening Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez hosted the first of what will be a series of special episodes of his weekly presidential talk show, "Hello, President." The focus of these episodes is the theory of socialist change, in contras...

Znet Article Vltchek: World Can't Be Changed Without Fighting Western Propaganda

Znet Article, June, 17 2009 Andre Vltchek
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Sometimes I am chased by nightmares: I am in the middle of some bombed out refugee camp, maybe in Congo (DRC) or in some other desperate country at the periphery of media interests. Children are running around with swollen bellies, clearly sufferi...

Znet Article Wetzel: From Self-managed Solidarity Unionism to a Self-managed Society

Znet Article, June, 15 2009 Tom Wetzel
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When Marx drew up a draft set of principles for the first International Working Men's Association (the "First International") in the 1860s, he began with the statement:

Znet Article Christini: Assembling the Future

Znet Article, June, 12 2009 Tony Christini
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Nothing bests great vision and nothing accounts for great planning like the thing materialized.

Znet Article Majavu: Overcoming some of the suicidal tendencies of the left

Znet Article, June, 01 2009 Mandisi Majavu
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Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications...

Znet Article Evans: Popular Vision and Vanguardism

Znet Article, May, 30 2009 Mark Evans
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The current economic crisis has dealt a powerful blow to Milton Friedman's socio-economic vision and the dogma, propounded by followers of the Chicago School movement - there is no alternative - that has helped maintain it. As a result people ever...

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