| Back | Search Results - New Search |
Podur: Free Software and ZNet
Znet Article, May, 01 2006
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
For several months ZNet, an activist website, has been exploring the possibility of converting to free software and so joining the 'free software movement', a movement that advocates for certain fundamental freedoms for computer users. Both ZNet a...
Albert: Parecon Today
Znet Article, April, 27 2006
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
1. Where did parecon come from? What is its history? Participatory economics, or parecon, came mainly from the cumulative struggles of diverse populations trying to win liberation from capitalism. Parecon owes, in particular, to the anarchist a...
Bennis: Thinking Strategically
Znet Article, April, 06 2006
Phyllis Bennis
Bennis's ZSpace page
As a movement we have been extraordinarily successful in achieving our initial goal: we have helped transform public opinion to the now almost 2/3 majority opposition to the war in Iraq. Our task now is to transform that consciousness into empowe...
Ali: Islam and the Left
Znet Article, April, 02 2006
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
The following interview with Tariq Ali was conducted by Alex De Jong and Paul Mepschen of the SAP (Dutch section of the Fourth International) at the Ernest Mandel symposium held in Brussels in November 2005. It was published in the March-April 200...
Ali: WSF in Pakistan
Znet Article, April, 01 2006
Tariq Ali
Ali's ZSpace page
While we were opening the World Social Forum in Karachi last weekend with virtuoso performances of sufi music and speeches, the country's rulers were marking the centenary of the Muslim League [the party that created Pakistan and has ever since be...
Trigona: Recuperated Enterprises in Argentina
Znet Article, March, 27 2006
Marie Trigona
Trigona's ZSpace page
Argentina’s worker-run factories are setting an example for workers around the world that employees can run a business even better without a boss or owner. Some 180 recuperated enterprises up and running, providing jobs for more than 10,00...
Albert: Parecon and Journalism
Znet Article, March, 20 2006
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
The following is excerpted from the new book from Zed Press, Realizing Hope. See: http://www.zmag.org/realizinghope.html The idea of journalism is not overly complex. Societies involve huge ranges of activity and possibility. Each day events oc...
Albert: Still Uncomprehending...
Znet Article, March, 15 2006
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Schweickart's reply to my reply gives me a gigantic mound o...
Gibler: Maquila Violence in Mexico
Znet Article, March, 14 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
On February 14, the day sub-comandante Marcos arrived in the city of Puebla as part of his six-month journey across the country to listen to the voices of the underdogs of the Mexican left, the national newspaper La Jornada carried on its front pa...
Chomsky: Latin American Integration
Znet Article, March, 07 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
Bernie Dwyer: I am reminded of a great Irish song called "The West's Awake" written by Thomas Davis in remembrance of the Fenian Uprising of 1798. It is about the west of Ireland asleep under British rule for hundreds of years and how it awoke fro...
Gibler: Notes from the Other Oaxaca
Znet Article, February, 28 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
Walking across the central plaza in Oaxaca City time slows down. Stepping into the expanse of cobblestone walkways that weave through trees and flower beds, surrounded by old colonial government buildings and sidewalk cafes, one feels one's hurry ...
Engler: No Activism?
Znet Article, February, 27 2006
Yves Engler
Engler's ZSpace page
Sometimes, activism can seem like a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. Every activist has heard people say: “Nothing ever changes. Things are the way they are and that’s how it is and always will be. All your complaining an...
Wetzel: Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-Management
Znet Article, February, 27 2006
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
We live under a system with a series of oppressions woven together: domination and exploitation of workers by elite classes of owners, managers and professionals; a system of gender inequality that disadvantages women; a racial hierarchy that plac...
Albert: Critique Without Comprehension
Znet Article, February, 24 2006
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
For The review this essay replies to Please see Schweickart: Nonsense On Stilts Parecon Phe...
Podur: Stop the Deadly Rumours
Znet Article, February, 21 2006
Justin Podur
Podur's ZSpace page
In the 1960s and 1970s, the US political police, mainly in the form of the FBI, infiltrated, spied upon, and violently attacked various social movement organizations. This effort, documented in Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall’s book, â&...
Hepburn: Creating An Ecological, Worker Run Co-operative
Znet Article, February, 16 2006
John Hepburn
Hepburn's ZSpace page
Since 1998, Reverse Garbage Co-op has been diverting re-useable materials away from landfills and making them available at low cost to the local community. It has an annual turnover of around $300,000 per annum, employs 5-6 people, and is financia...
Gibler: Who's Not Listening
Znet Article, February, 13 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
The Los Angeles Times article “Masked Marxist, With Marimbas†(January 23, 2006) describes the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign like a bizarre provincial circus. By excluding information, using delegitimizing descriptive terms, a...
Gibler: Who's Not Listening
Znet Article, February, 13 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
The Los Angeles Times article “Masked Marxist, With Marimbas†(January 23, 2006) describes the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign like a bizarre provincial circus. By excluding information, using delegitimizing descriptive terms, a...
Gibler: The Politics of Listening
Znet Article, February, 05 2006
John Gibler
Gibler's ZSpace page
In the city of Campeche, under the slow-turning ceiling fans of a converted carport behind a pastry shop, 66-year old Emiliano Centurron picked up a microphone for the first time. He stood between a crowd of 200 people packed under the shade, fann...
Rebick: Socialism in the 21st Century
Znet Article, January, 29 2006
Judy Rebick
Rebick's ZSpace page
Socialism in the 21st Century


