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- Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Blog Post Duscussion on priorities for IOPS members during the interim phase. -
- Monday, Apr 09, 2012
Blog Post A proposed script for a short introductory video to IOPS. -
- Monday, Apr 02, 2012
ZNet Article Our movements need to be participatory and classless from the start. They need to be examples to people of the kind of society we are trying to win -
- Monday, Dec 19, 2011
Video Mark Evans (PPS-UK) at Stockholm Socialist Forum 19th November 2011 -
- Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011
Blog Post A reply to Noam Chomsky's criticisms of parecon from an advocate of parecon. -
- Wednesday, Aug 17, 2011
Blog Post a parecon informed strategy for genuine public service broadcasting
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- Friday, Aug 05, 2011
ZNet Article It could be argued that the best way to defend public services would be to push for greater democratic control over them by workers and consumers -
- Friday, Jul 22, 2011
Video Michael Albert Parecon lecture at Birmingham University, 26 October 2010 -
- Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Blog Post A proposal for a set of initial demands for a National Campaign and a call to help develop it further. -
- Friday, May 20, 2011
Blog Post A proposal for an alternative remedy to social inequality to that presented by The Equality Trust. -
- Thursday, Apr 28, 2011
Blog Post Video link to a very important film about the future of the NHS -
- Friday, Apr 15, 2011
Blog Post My initial thoughts on the Z Poll -
- Friday, Apr 01, 2011
Blog Post In this blog I spell-out (next six steps) what I would like to see happen with the IOPS group. I feel the group has great potential if only members prioritised moving it forward more as part of their activism. -
- Wednesday, Mar 09, 2011
Blog Post A brief account of some of the challenges PPS-UK are encountering and trying to address. -
- Saturday, Oct 09, 2010
Blog Post An account of the process of organising the UK tour for Michael Albert and a plea for help in promoting it. -
- Monday, Sep 20, 2010
Blog Post Some basic questions about the IRPS group and thoughts about possible relationship between this group and IOPS. -
- Wednesday, Sep 15, 2010
Blog Post A proposal for a new sign-up system for membership to the IOPS group that I think will aid better organising. -
- Monday, Sep 13, 2010
ZNet Article The following is my contribution to an informal round-table discussion organised by The Equality Trust. The Equality Trust was set-up as a not-for-profit organization to educate and and campaign on the benefits of a more equal society. -
- Sunday, Sep 12, 2010
Book The authors of this book present over fifty years of combined research into the social determinants of health and present what they refer to as "evidence based politics".
This evendence strongly suggests that the more unequal a society gets the... -
- Sunday, Aug 15, 2010
Blog Post A suggestion to redesgn the sign-up system for PPS-UK that will overcome a number of existing problems and make organisng and participation within the organisation easier. -
- Thursday, Aug 05, 2010
Blog Post A message to IOPS members -
- Thursday, Jul 01, 2010
Blog Post A proposed Script, in three parts, for a short introductory video to Project for a Partipatory Society - United Kingdom.
It is intended as a voice-over for a video to be accompanied with background music as well as appropriate visual images. -
- Sunday, May 30, 2010
Blog Post A proposal for coordinated local efforts to build solidarity amongst left groups and interest within the general public around participatory democracy. -
- Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Blog Post A draft proposal calling on the British Left to form a coalition for a participatory democracy in preporation for the formation of a Fifth International. -
- Monday, Mar 29, 2010
Blog Post Some ideas on gaining more support for our Proposal for a Participatory Socialist International -
- Monday, Feb 22, 2010
ZNet Article In this reply ReSoc essay I argue that recent developments in vision impact on our strategic options. These developments in vision open-up new opportunities for organising that many of the traditional left don't seem to appreciate. -
- Friday, Jan 01, 2010
Blog Post Some suggestions for organisational priorities for PPS-UK in 2010. -
- Monday, Nov 02, 2009
ZNet Article A six stage program for a new international organisation dedicated to radical-progressive social transformation. -
- Wednesday, Oct 28, 2009
Blog Post Mark Evan's Resoc Interview -
- Monday, Oct 05, 2009
ZNet Article A critical (but hopefully constructive) review of Media Lens new book - Newspeak in the 21st Century. - All Most Recent Content

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Z Poll and IOPS
Imagine...
Freethinking...
Don't let them fool ya,
Or even try to school ya! Oh, no!
We've got a mind of our own,
So go to hell if what you're thinking is not right!
Love would never leave us alone,
A-yin the darkness there must come out to light.
Could You Be Loved
Bob Marley

Out of the same background came three major things: fascism, Bolshevism and corporate tyranny
Class Warfare
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Media Control - the spectacular achievemnts of propaganda
Noam Chomsky

Unfortunately, for all its emphesis on class analysis, Marxism blinded many fighting against the economics of competition and greed to important antagonisms between the working class and the new, professional managerial, or coordinator class.
There is an ample literature documenting the advantages of employee management. Evidence is overwhelmimg that people with a say and stake in how they work not only find work more enjoyable, they are more productive and efficient as well.
Economic Justice and Democracy
Robin Hahnel

Good sense is, of all things amongst men, the most equally distributed; for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already posses. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken: the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
Discourse on Method
Rene Descartes

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
The Sane Society
Erich Fromm

... the fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in phisics. Like energy, power has many forms, such as wealth, armarment, civil authority, influence on opinion. No one of these can be regarded as subordinate to any other, and there is no form from which the others are dirivitive.
Power
Bertrand Russell


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