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Brecher: Labor Confronts Global Warming
Znet Article, April, 14 2007
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
The reality of global warming and its catastrophic consequences are today beyond debate. But American labor is caught in an intern...
Albert: Remembering Tomorrow Interview
Znet Article, February, 02 2007
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Remembering Tomorrow, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Remembering Tomorrow is not organized in a linear historical flow, as are most memoirs. Instead, Remembering Tomorrow's main sec...
Bogado: Golden Cages
Znet Article, November, 22 2006
Aura Bogado
Bogado's ZSpace page
"Chiquito, chiquito, chiquito..." she says quietly, shaking her head as she describes how incredibly small the airplane looks in the sky from the fertile land she stands on. But Doña Maria, a Quechua woman no more than five feet tall, should be t...
Albert: Why Parecon?
Znet Article, September, 14 2006
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
Fifteen years ago, Robin Hahnel and I published a book titled Looking Forward. It was the first in-depth presentation of the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short. Of course Robin and I worked hard on parecon and rel...
Albert: Parecon and France
Znet Article, July, 23 2006
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
An economy has to produce goods and sevices that we then enjoy both for survival and pleasure. It also has to facilitate our getting those outputs of economic activity, which is to say, consumption. And between production and consumption comes wha...
Lendman: The Federal Reserve
Znet Article, June, 29 2006
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
Years ago I read William Greider's excellent book published in 1987 on how the US Federal Reserve System works. It was detailed and explicit and makes wonderful and informative reading, except for the solution he suggests to a huge problem. His wa...
Baker: Wall Street Rules
Znet Article, June, 23 2006
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The idea that the government, or some arm of government, is controlled by a special interest group naturally prompts outrage. The government should be answerable to the public as a whole, not special interests that have extraordinary political pow...
Wetzel: Unionism and Workers' Liberation
Znet Article, May, 31 2006
Tom Wetzel
Wetzel's ZSpace page
Unionism and Workers' Liberation
Peters: Kinship Vision
Znet Article, May, 19 2006
Cynthia Peters
Peters's ZSpace page
This paper is being prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held...
Shalom: A Political System for a Good Society
Znet Article, May, 19 2006
Stephen1 Shalom
Shalom's ZSpace page
{ 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...
Albert: Building A Pareconish Movement
Znet Article, May, 03 2006
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
{ 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...
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...
Lendman: The War On Immigrants
Znet Article, April, 11 2006
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." Once that was true, but no longer. Emma Lazarus’ beautiful and memorable words we’ve all heard many times and...
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...
Halimi: The America Not Made For You And Me
Znet Article, March, 15 2006
Serge Halimi
Halimi's ZSpace page
Robert Greenwald's documentary, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (1), opens in a huge room packed with shareholders attending the company's annual meeting. They greet the CEO, H Lee Scott, with an ovation as he takes the podium. He tells them...
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...
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...
Chomsky: Korea and International Affairs
Znet Article, February, 22 2006
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
SUN WOO LEE: How is your health? NOAM CHOMSKY: I am fine, as you can see. SUN WOO LEE: Is there any recent issue of interest related to Korea which you have been following? NOAM CHOMSKY: Korea is playing a very significant role in world affa...
