Accumulation by African Dispossession
This post is based on the panel discussion on Africa. It is a cross-posting from the grassroots-based blog, Topsoil. Capitalism has been spurred on by dispossession. Every accumulation of capital is not free, but a debt to that which has … Continue reading
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Decolonising our minds
“I wish you Egypt so you can decolonise your minds” says the Palestinian Human Rights Campaigner Omar Barghouti, to a packed plenary in Shoreditch Town Hall. It is the final rally of the 6 Billion Ways Conference, a day of workshops, speakers and music from across the world. In so doing he captures the mood of a day in a single sentence. Both decolonisation of the mind and the revolution in Egypt have proven central themes of 6 Billion Ways conference as a whole, as they will during the final rally.
Power to the People: Rethinking Democracy
This meeting, as you might expect, was rich in abstract talk of bottom-up, not top-down, grassroots, horizontal organisation, rethinking democracy, subsidiarity, ‘totalising underviews’ and other wonderful ideas; thankfully, though, we managed to touch on practicalities and examples too. The first … Continue reading
Power to the People: Rethinking Democracy
This meeting, as you might expect, was rich in abstract talk of bottom-up, not top-down, grassroots, horizontal organisation, rethinking democracy, subsidiarity, ‘totalising underviews’ and other wonderful ideas; thankfully, though, we managed to touch on practicalities and examples too. The first … Continue reading
Capitalism and class – don’t mention the C words?
How relevant are the above terms in progressive discourse today? How useful can they be? (Check out the profile and speakers here) My crucial fear in this debate centred around Godwin’s Law, normally applied to the likelihood of Hitler or … Continue reading
How the arms trade took over the census (and what to do about it!)
Come along to a self-organised session in the Rich Mix bar at 17.00 to find out how the world’s biggest arms company is helping to run the 2011 census. We’ll be brainstorming exciting ideas for how to spread the word … Continue reading
Why are poor countries poor?
Why indeed? Ricardo Navarro eloquently mentioned that we should be talking about impoverished countries, not poor countries. Poor countries are just a little down-and-out, they’re lagging a little behind economically but they’ll be alright in the long run. Maybe they’ve … Continue reading
6 Billion Ways and our global struggle
The struggle against neo-liberalism is global or it is nothing. It is easy to imagine that the current cocktail of poisons forced on the people of Britain is something new. But it is nothing of the sort. All around the world, people have faced the same mixture of cuts, privatisation and de-regulation. And all around the world, people have fought back.
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