London Project for a Participatory Society

Here are some articles that convey the kind of political ideas that led to the founding of the LPPS. Almost all of these articles are written by people who have been associated with the International Project for a Participatory Society, or with efforts to develop the idea of a “participatory economy” and a “participatory society” more generally.

• Participatory Economics (’Parecon’)

  • What is Participatory Economics? (Michael Albert) – an LPPS publication
  • A Brief Introduction to Participatory Economics (with thanks to the Vancouver Parecon Collective)
  • Protecting the Environment in a Participatory Economy (Robin Hahnel)
  • Venezuela: Not What You Think (Robin Hahnel)

• Participatory Society

  • ParPolity: Political Vision for a Good Society (Stephen Shalom)
  • Kinship Vision (Cynthia Peters)

• Movement Strategy

  • Building a Pareconish Movement (Michael Albert)
  • Five Guidelines for our Organizing (Cynthia Peters)
  • War of Position (SJ D’Arcy)
  • Globalization: Beyond Reaction, Thinking Ahead (Robin Hahnel)

• Feminism

  • Why Feminism isn’t for Everybody (Rebecca Ellis)
  • The Socialist Feminist Project (Nancy Holmstrom)

• Anti-Racism

  • Canada’s Newest Political Prisoners (Justin Podur)
  • Shawn Brant (Justin Podur)
  • Life After Racism? (Justin Podur)

• Environmental Justice

  • Protecting the Environment in a Participatory Economy (Robin Hahnel)
  • Parecon and Ecology (Michael Albert)
  • Threat of Population Growth Pales Beside the Greed of the Rich (George Monbiot)
  • Second Ecosocialist Manifesto (Michael Lowy and Joel Kovel)
  • The (Not-S0) Sudden Crisis of the Global Food Economy (Tony Weis)

• International Solidarity

  • Canada for Anti-imperialists (part 1) (part 2) (Justin Podur)
  • Venezuela’s Path (Michael Albert)

• Right to the City

  • Gentrifying Downtown (Tony Roshan Samara and Grace Chang)
  • Battle for the Block: Right to the City (Michael Gould-Wartofsky)
  • The Importance of the Local (Hilary Wainwright)
  • Neo-Liberalism and the City (David Harvey) [see also this video of a Harvey lecture on the Right to the City]