Towards a peer society based on the commons

Heathwood

May 29, 2015

By George Dafermos If the previous decade brought the business embrace of Linux, free software and the knowledge commons of science and technology to the fore, the present one marks their entry into the ... Read More...

Re-imagining the future of work

Heathwood

May 8, 2015

This is an extract from Resist! Against a precarious future, a new book on young people and politics, edited by Ray Filar. Resist! is the third book in the Radical Future series: publications by young activists... Read More...

State of Power 2015| TNI

Heathwood

February 10, 2015

(If the PDF doesn’t display properly, please refresh the page or click here) An annual anthology on global power and resistance - The fourth edition of TNI's State of Power report, seeks to examine differe... Read More...

Here to stay: Water remunicipalisation as a global trend

Heathwood

December 3, 2014

A new report by Transnational Institute highlights a growing trend of cities across the world taking back control of their water, signalling the start of a movement which aims to reverse the tide of privatizati... Read More...

A deeper pain

Heathwood

November 28, 2014

"The war that makes global news is superimposed on a severe, chronic, traumatic deprivation that is no longer news" By Samah Jabr Israel’s war against the Gaza Strip between 7 July and 25 August caused, r... Read More...

Finance and the privatization of rural livelihoods

Heathwood

November 17, 2014

The following article  was originally published by ROAR Magazine. It has been posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. By Luigi Russi with Tomaso Ferrando A big piece of news for food politics ... Read More...

Report: The Global Water Grab – Transnational Institute

Heathwood

October 10, 2014

The following report by Jennifer Franco, Satoko Kishimoto, Sylvia Kay, Timothé Feodoroff and Gloria Pracucci was originally published by TNI. It has been posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. ... Read More...

John Holloway: cracking capitalism vs. the state option

Heathwood

October 8, 2014

The following interview by Amador Fernández-Savater was originally translated by Richard Mac Duinnsleibhe, edited by Arianne Sved of Guerrilla Translation, and published by ROAR Magazine. This article has been ... Read More...

Mobilising a counter-hegemonic climate movement

Heathwood

September 21, 2014

"As concerned citizens mobilise for climate change demonstrations across the world, never has it been more important to embrace a collective demand for ‘system change’ as the surest way to limit global warming ... Read More...

New study finds US to be ruled by oligarchic elite

Heathwood

September 20, 2014

The following article by Jerome Roos, originally published by ROAR Magazine, reports on a recent scientific study which finds modern "democracy" in the U.S. is actually an oligarchy. It has been posted as part ... Read More...

For a new social deal that can transform Europe

Heathwood

August 26, 2014

The following article by Sergi Cutillas reflects on recent waves of revolutionary struggle throughout the world, focusing in turn on the unique political atmosphere that has developed in Spain. (For more on the... Read More...

Report: US Surveillance Harming Journalism, Law, Democracy | Human Rights Watch

Heathwood

August 18, 2014

The following report was published by Human Rights Watch. It was posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. "Large-scale US surveillance is seriously hampering US-based journalists and lawyers in th... Read More...

The Oxford Left Review – Issue 13 (June 2014): Technology and Science

Heathwood

July 30, 2014

Below is Issue 13 of The Oxford Left Review, which hosts a number of articles and papers on the very important theme of technology and science. This issue was originally published by OLR, and was posted as part... Read More...

From the Communism of Capital to Capital for the Commons: Towards an Open Co-operativism | Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis

Michel Bauwens

June 30, 2014

The following paper by Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Kostakis contemplates a potential transitional approach to a post-capitalist economy, which combines both Commons-oriented open peer production models with comm... Read More...

Who’s Afraid of the NEA? Justice, Solidarity, and a Democratic Culture | Lambert Zuidervaart

Heathwood

June 27, 2014

Presentation by Lambert Zuidervaart discussing mainstream justifications of direct state subsidies for the arts, offering a vision of art in public while providing a new sociocultural argument for government ar... Read More...

ACLU Report: ‘War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Police’

Heathwood

June 24, 2014

Below is a new report by the ACLU on the 'increasing militarisation of US police'. Posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. "All across the country, heavily-armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s ... Read More...

Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Should we fight the system or be the change?

Heathwood

June 4, 2014

Article by Mark Engler and Paul Engler on the strengths and weaknesses of prefigurative politics, adding a different voice to the debates on Heathwood with regards to the extended series by Gunn/Smith/Wilding o... Read More...

Noam Chomsky | Edward Snowden, the World’s “Most Wanted Criminal”

Heathwood

June 4, 2014

Noam Chomsky on Edward Snowden, civil rights, a critique of power & the mass surveillance state. Originally published by Truthout - Posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. By Noam Chomsky ... Read More...

Afterthoughts on Piketty’s Capital | David Harvey

Heathwood

May 23, 2014

This article was originally published  on David Harvey's blog 'Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey', which you can find here: http://davidharvey.org.. - Posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. ... Read More...

The Top 1 Percent’s Share of Income from Wealth Has Been Rising for Decades | Economic Policy Institute

Heathwood

May 9, 2014

New study published by Economic Policy Institute shows the historical widening of economic inequality in the United States. Posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project By Josh Bivens A key point i... Read More...