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Znet Article Raina: India, Nepal, and Left Praxis

Znet Article, June, 24 2006 Badri Raina
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In an earlier piece in the same space  (“India and Nepal”,  Znet, june 10) suggestions were made with respect to the implications of the Nepalese revolutionary upsurge for the idea of the theocratic State. That upsurge also has an...

Znet Article Raina: India and Nepal

Znet Article, June, 10 2006 Badri Raina
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Replicating the wishful follies of the eighteenth century Bourbon monarch, Louis XVI,  King Gyanendra Shah of Nepal  has finally been denuded of all his powers.  It hardly matters now what royal robes  he wears; the emperor will henceforth be effe...

Znet Article Wetzel: Unionism and Workers' Liberation

Znet Article, May, 31 2006 Tom Wetzel
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Unionism and Workers' Liberation

Znet Article Podur: Race, Culture, and Leftists

Znet Article, May, 21 2006 Justin Podur
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My presentation is motivated by what I believe is a weakness across the political spectrum: handling the interaction of different cultures and identities in accordance with principles of equality, solidarity, and liberty. My optimistic belief is t...

Znet Article Peters: Kinship Vision

Znet Article, May, 19 2006 Cynthia Peters
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This paper is being prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held...

Znet Article Shalom: A Political System for a Good Society

Znet Article, May, 19 2006 Stephen1 Shalom
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{ This paper was prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These sessions gather activists from around the world to share...

Znet Article Albert: Building A Pareconish Movement

Znet Article, May, 03 2006 Michael Albert
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{ This paper was prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These sessions g...

Znet Article Podur: Free Software and ZNet

Znet Article, May, 01 2006 Justin Podur
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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...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon Today

Znet Article, April, 27 2006 Michael Albert
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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...

Znet Article Bennis: Thinking Strategically

Znet Article, April, 06 2006 Phyllis Bennis
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 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...

Znet Article Ali: Islam and the Left

Znet Article, April, 02 2006 Tariq Ali
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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...

Znet Article Ali: WSF in Pakistan

Znet Article, April, 01 2006 Tariq Ali
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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...

Znet Article Trigona: Recuperated Enterprises in Argentina

Znet Article, March, 27 2006 Marie Trigona
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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...

Znet Article Albert: Parecon and Journalism

Znet Article, March, 20 2006 Michael Albert
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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...

Znet Article Albert: Still Uncomprehending...

Znet Article, March, 15 2006 Michael Albert
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Schweickart's reply to my reply gives me a gigantic mound o...

Znet Article Gibler: Maquila Violence in Mexico

Znet Article, March, 14 2006 John Gibler
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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...

Znet Article Chomsky: Latin American Integration

Znet Article, March, 07 2006 Noam Chomsky
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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...

Znet Article Gibler: Notes from the Other Oaxaca

Znet Article, February, 28 2006 John Gibler
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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 ...

Znet Article Engler: No Activism?

Znet Article, February, 27 2006 Yves Engler
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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...

Znet Article Wetzel: Workers' Liberation and Institutions of Self-Management

Znet Article, February, 27 2006 Tom Wetzel
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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...

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