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Internationally, African countries are considered to be particularly corrupt. This reputation amounts to an immense oversimplification of a much bigger problem and partly results from ...mehr...

The ‘changes’ in Eastern Europe took place on the 200th anniversary of the French revolution. It seemed to many that it might be a second coming: a new revolution about, and for, human rights.mehr...

As strange and as sudden as it may be, thanks to the revelations by several international news sources concerning the magnitude of tax evasion facilitated by a Panamanian firm, elected officials and ...mehr...

Social movements across the globe mobilize the commons as non-capitalist economies that are rooted in social relationships and that are motivated by community needs and not by markets.mehr...

International

Zuckerberg set up a limited liability company, which was a public relations coup and will help minimize his tax bill.mehr...

In light of the Paris terror attack that killed over 130, I have some observations to share regarding the social media response.mehr...

As a former dissident and as an opposition politician and theorist around 1989, I am of course frequently asked to draw a balance sheet of the great changes in Eastern Europe. There is a huge ...mehr...

I am not qualified to write about the crisis which sends Syrians, Afghans, Iraqis, Eritreans and others to Europe. I know only what I read in the newspapers and in a few specialist books.mehr...

I’m going to build an amazing instrument. That’s crazy, me an instrument maker, but it is apparently going to happen. I’m only an amateur hobby musician more big headed than ambitious. Yet, this instrument.mehr...

A visit to see Jock Palfreeman at Sofia Central Prison usually means the normal bureaucracy i.e. waiting 2-3 hours, body searches and food stuff weighed, checked and an item or two confiscated.mehr...

International

Twenty one year old Australian Jock Palfreeman started his travels around Europe in early 2006. Having visited numerous countries and stayed in a small town an hour drive from Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, living and working with his friends, he returned tmehr...

In the years 2005-2007 in Poland there was a period of governmental coalition between 3 parties: conservative Law and Justice (PIS), social-conservative-agrarian Self-Defense (Samoobrona) and ultra-catholic League of Polish Families (Liga Polskich Rodzinmehr...

The following excerpt is part of the longer essay »Free Property — On Social Criticism in the Form of a Software Licence«.mehr...

Everybody who is involved in one of the current labour struggles – who watches them or tries to intervene in them – has to deal with the issue of unions.mehr...

International

Leaving the twentieth century, leftism of every stripe is in disarray and defeat — anarcho-leftism included. And Murray Bookchin’s Social Ecology is certainly no exception to this trend.mehr...

There is a double spooking the world, the double of abstraction. The fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities depend on it. All contending classes revere yet fear the relentless ...mehr...

Closing statement from Ken Saro-Wiwa to the nigerian military appointed tribunal: »We all stand before history. I am a man of peace, of ideas.«mehr...

Moishe Postone is Professor of History at the University of Chicago, where he is also part of the Committee on Jewish Studies.mehr...

International

Consider the present situation. The Industrialized World wakes up to flnd itself in a quandary. Perhaps the technological confrontation between the two ideologies.mehr...

Armed tele-operated and autonomous systems have the potential to accelerate the pace and tempo of warfare, to undermine existing arms controls and regulations.mehr...

Jock Palfreeman’s Official Statement of Events. I went out from Rock bar at Lavele Street with Lindzi and Tony and with other people I don’t know by name.mehr...

Whitechapel in the 1930s was a melting pot of races and cultures, in the last quarter of the 18th century there was an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe.mehr...

The causes of the current crisis in the international financial markets, have been attributed by almost all commentators and economic experts to the uninhibited freedom granted to speculation, particularly in the USA.mehr...

The 20th century was the bloodiest century in the history of humanity. The 21st century could break this record.mehr...

Consider the present situation. The Industrialized World wakes up to flnd itself in a quandary. Perhaps the technological confrontation between the two ideologiesmehr...

Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt’s book Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism published by AK Press in 2009 has caused considerable debate within the anarchist movement.mehr...

As a child of ten, I once sat on a hillside on the reservation with my father and his mother as they looked down into the town on the valley floor.mehr...

It’s time to renew your yearly lease and once again your landlord wants to raise your monthly rent. Should you stay or should you go? Are there options to leases, rents and mortgages?mehr...

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know.mehr...

International

To many readers of Profane Existance it must seem like the only strategy the PE collective has is to sell our records and to glorify viloence against the state, and hell, it’s partly true.mehr...

The US administration titles it’s current crusade „enduring justice”. This crusade is no joke, satire or bad film.mehr...

International

The Requirement: Solidarity between women means, that women don’t have to show up to the failures of other women!mehr...

»E« is a game written by the Guerilla Press in order to raise funds. The game is set in a time in the future, when the survivors of the human race have become totally schizophrenic.mehr...

We live in a world that tells us we must choose an identity, a career, a relationship, and commit to these situations.mehr...