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Latest issue of open-access online journal: Global Labour Journal

Greetings,

 

Global Labour Journal is pleased to announce that the latest issue of the Journal (GLJ 2.1, January 2011) is now available for free download online:

 

http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/

 

In this issue:

 

**Special Issue: Making Public Sociology, guest-edited by Michael…

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Added by peter waterman on February 1, 2011 at 15:22 — No Comments

Patrick Bond's Frequent Newsletter/Links - A Sample

Peter sez:
Patrick Bond, who leads the Centre for Civil Society, Durban, South Africa, is a hyper-active and hyper-productive academic/activist who is a significant presence within the World Social Forum and in the broader Global…
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Added by peter waterman on January 26, 2011 at 17:20 — No Comments

Lovink and Riemens: 12 Theses on Wikileaks

Peter sez:

Wow!

Best piece on Wikileaks I have so far found. Note criticism also of its own practices as a 'single person operation' and distance from the 'another world is possible movement'.

Now read on...

http://www.eurozine.com/pdf/2010-12-07-lovinkriemens-en.pdf

Geert Lovink, Patrice Riemens



Twelve theses on…

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Added by peter waterman on December 13, 2010 at 14:51 — No Comments

GLU Conference on Labour and Development, September 2011

Peter sez:



Despite the word 'development' in the title, the specification for this conference makes it sound like a serious address to the problems of labour (in general) under what is being increasingly called the crisis of capitalist civilisation.



I would encourage applications by labour movement researchers/activists, regardless of whether applicants have funding. I will be applying despite no access…
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Added by peter waterman on December 7, 2010 at 9:10 — No Comments

The US: Social Networking and/or Social Change

Social Networking: Is Malcolm Gladwell Right That It's Useless for Social Change?



http://laborstrategies.blogs.com/

[This article is dedicated to the late Tim Costello, who taught us so much about…

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Added by peter waterman on November 7, 2010 at 18:52 — No Comments

Needed: a global labour charter movement





Needed: a global labour charter movement



Peter Waterman



This Charter was first floated in 2005. It has been published in labour…

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Added by peter waterman on October 16, 2010 at 8:23 — 2 Comments

Many New Internationalisms!?

Submitted for consideration of a book to be edited by Corrine Kumar in India.







Many New Internationalisms!…



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Added by peter waterman on August 24, 2010 at 16:34 — No Comments

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