Anarcho-Government
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] Over the years, I have intimated to many of my anarchist friends that even though I consider myself an anarchist, I don’t...
View ArticleA Reply / Contribution to Michael Albert’s ‘Imagine and then Act’
In the introduction to his ReSoc essay – Imagine and then Act – Michael Albert dreams about the possibility of an international gathering of activists intent on establishing a new international...
View ArticleSystems Design: Oppressive or Liberating?
Anyone over the age of 30 probably remembers life before cell phones, the internet, and shit, life before Microsoft Windows. We remember archaic things like landlines before there were cordless phones...
View ArticleReimagining Society Interview
1. At a public talk someone asks you, "Okay, I understand what you reject, but I wonder what you are for? What institutions do you want that you think will be better than what we have, for the economy,...
View ArticleReview of Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary...
Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (New York: Viking, 2009) Murder, rape, looting, cutthroat competition, and above all, "panic": such are...
View ArticleParecon & Participatory Society
In this interview, Michael Albert, one of the originators of Participatory Economics (along with Robin Hahnel), is interviewed by parecon advocate Matt Grinder. Matt Grinder: Could you briefly...
View ArticleUSSF/WSF Declarations
[Paper presented as the basis for dialogue at the James & Grace Lee Boggs Center for Community Leadership, Detroit, MI., August 26th 2010, and put on by the Organization for a Free Society.]...
View ArticleIntercommunalism
Based on Pamphlet for The Organization for a Free Society Table of Contents Introductions: Nice to Meet You · Hey, You! · Why This Was Written and What’s Inside · Some Quick Disclaimers 1. Foundations:...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Leninism
Mark Evans is a founding member of Project for a Participatory Society UK, the UK chapter of the International Organisation for a Participatory Society, a growing movement of people committed to...
View ArticleFor a New Left International
This week saw the online launch of a new international organisation for radical social transformation, the International Organisation for a Participatory Society (IOPS). Two of the founding members,...
View ArticleTranslation of Fanfare – Italy
Dear friends, Znetitaly.org, an Italian IOPS collective primarily focusing on translating into Italian texts published by Znet/Zcommunications , has started the translation into Italian of volume 1,...
View ArticleOccupy Theory, The Final Chapter
This is the Conclusion of Volume One, Occupy Theory, of the Three Volume set, Fanfare for the Future. You can find out more about these books at Z’s Fanfare for the Future Page. “He who loves practice...
View ArticleIntroduction to Occupy Vision
This is the introduction to Occupy Vision, the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future. In coming days we will post the book’s eight chapters, as well. You can find out more...
View ArticleChapter One of Occupy Vision
This is the chapter one of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future. In coming days we will post the book’s eight chapters. You can find out more...
View ArticleChapter 3 of Occupy Vision: Parpolity
Chapter Three Self Management Implies Parpolity This is the chapter three of Occupy Vision, which is the second volume of the three volume set titled Fanfare for the Future. In coming days we will post...
View ArticleChapter Four: Still More Strategic Issues
Chapter Four: Still More Strategic Issues This is chapter four of the book Occupy Strategy – which is the third and concluding volume of the series titled Fanfare for the Future. In coming weeks we...
View ArticleParticipatory Economy – An Alternative to the Always-Crisis
Interview on participatory economy for German/European TV - Part One.
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We Only Want the Earth
How do we protect our natural world and transition to net-zero carbon, and at the same time, transition to a more just post-capitalist society?
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Participatory Economics: What, Why, How
There may be one thing in the world that most of humanity agrees on. When considering the state of present-day institutions of economy, polity, community, and kinship relations, people broadly agree...
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Clarifying the “Edges” of Participatory Economics
Participatory economy promises classless post capitalist production, consumption, and allocation. Participatory economy promises solidarity, diversity, equity, self-management, sustainability,...
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Letter from a Translator-Activist
I participated in publishing a Russian translation of Practical Utopia by Michael Albert to GitHub at this link: https://parecon.github.io/practical-utopia/ru. Anyone who gets authorised to the source...
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Grassroots Democracy and Peoples’ Alternative Practices in Southeast Asia
Introduction 1) Discourses on practices of grassroots democracy often focus on modes of popular participation centered on institutional avenues such as elections and local governance issues dealing...
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A Radical President?! Pandemonium!
Consider the potential of certain progressives winning high office in the U.S. Beyond their being much better than who they defeat, would they turn out to be allies of corporate continuity? Would they...
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Imagine A Stadium
Imagine we were to assemble in one massive stadium everyone who favors changing societies to attain political, economic, and social justice for all. Everyone who wants to end war and poverty and begin...
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A Socialist Economy without Numbers?
Can a post-Capitalist socialist Economy exist without numbers? There are those who think it can. In this episode Mitchell, Robin and Antti are joined by accountant Anders Sandström (Author of Anarchist...
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Is Latin America’s Progressive Tide Growing? Guatemala’s Watershed Election
In a landslide victory, Bernardo Arévalo de León of the center left Movimiento Semilla won a runoff election for Guatemala’s presidency on Sunday against the right-wing establishment party. Marco...
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Community Budgeting for All Campaign – PB 101 Training – Part 1 of 2
PB Oregon & Next Up Action Fund January 4, 2023 PB 101 Training Part 1 of 2 More information on Community Budgeting For All Campaign https://www.pboregon.org/advocate
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Community Budgeting for All Campaign Briefing – Part 2 of 2
PB Oregon & Next Up Action Fund Community Budgeting for All Campaign Briefing January 4, 2023 More information on Community Budgeting For All Campaign https://www.pboregon.org/advocate
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