The first in a series of conversations that will take place between global social movement actors framed around both the nature of the global crisis and the various ways the new mass movements are responding. Our first conversation focuses on the origins of the movements in Egypt, Spain and the US, and the novel democratic forms that each movement is inventing, from direct democracy and mass assemblies to spokes councils. The second part of the events discussion will be organized around questions that the various movement participants will ask of one another. We hope to facilitate a discussion that both answers questions and raises even more questions. [read more»]

Deep in the forests, under the pretense of battling Maoist guerillas, the Indian government is waging a vicious total war against its own citizens—a war undocumented by a weak domestic press and fostered by corporations eager to exploit the rare minerals buried in tribal lands […] [read more»]

Etienne Balibar is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-X. As one of Louis Althusser’s most brilliant students in the 1960s, Etienne Balibar contributed to the collective theoretical masterpiece of Reading Capital. Since then he has established himself amongst the most subtle philosophical and political thinkers in France. He has worked extensively on general problematics such as the theme of universalism and difference… [read more»]

Immigration law’s focus is nation-state sovereignty and the ability of the state to exclude or deport aliens, who are understood to move spatially to the nation state, seeking entry or admittance. But this vision of immigration law fails to recognize settler colonialism, and, in particular, its grounding on preexisting indigenous populations’ territory… [read more»]

Achille Mbembe: Democracy and the Ethics of Common Life [read more»]