Institute for Social Ecology Electronc Newsletter
ise-news January 2002
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Alternatives to the European Union This past month, as Belgium's six-month presidency of the European Union came to term, the city of Brussels hosted a crucial inter-governmental EU Summit. The Laeken Summit sought to push the EU's grand scheme of centralization and trade liberalization forward. Some items on the agenda included public services and privatisation, arranging a common asylum, unemployment, education, immigration, and enlarging the Union to the East. With no surprise, the ever-growing movement against profit-driven globalization met the Laeken Summit with large-scale protests questioning the EU's agenda. In "Alternatives to the European Union", Jonathan Kors, an ISE alumni, critiques the EU while elaborating an alternative which takes democracy seriously. This article was originally published in Demokratisk Alternativ's, a Scandinavian Communalist organization, publication Direct Democracy. Read the article top |
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The Hijacking of History By Peter Staudenmaier For many people involved in the worldwide struggle against capitalism, the past two years had seemed, for once, to offer some promise of progress toward a freer society. History appeared to be taking a rare turn in our favor, with the ranks of the global movement expanding and its politics becoming sharpened and defined. But the massive crimes against humanity perpetrated on September 11 have stifled these hopes and ushered in a new period of uncertainty and peril. The fanatics who hijacked three planes that day were also, in a sense, hijacking history. And in an alarming instance of unconscious symmetry, their intended targets, the military, political, and economic elites of the United States, appear to be intent on completing the job. Read more top |
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Hot Discussion Topics Ecological Crisis & Transclass Issues: In the essay "Radical Politics in an Era of Advanced Capitalism" Murray Bookchin argues that Marxist idea that capitalism would create an "internal source of long-term economic breakdown that will presumably create a general interest for a new society" is bankrupt. Instead, Bookchin argues that the ecological crisis will cut across material, ethnic, and cultural lines and the concept of a general social interest may emerge. Rob Augman question if it is realistic to say that the ecological crisis will create that consciousness. top |
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Original: ise-news 012 :: January 2002