The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 6, No. 2/3 (Spring/Summer 2010)
Editorial
First, our apologies to our readers for the delay in publishing this issue but we hope that the rich material we collected in this double issue will compensate for it.
The new issue is divided into three main sections. The first section entitled “The Barcelona talks” includes two lectures by Takis Fotopoulos in Barcelona last Spring on the occasion of the CNT centenary celebration. The first talk examines Inclusive Democracy as a political project for a new libertarian synthesis, whereas the second talk complements the first one with a description of the transitional strategy towards an Inclusive Democracy and a critical assessment of old and new transition strategies.
The second section, entitled “The present World Order and its alternatives” includes an article by John Sargis on the Fourth of July Independence Day Delusion, in which he examines America’s past and present in relation to the ideology of the 4th of July and the prospects for the future. Next, an article on another aspect of the present world order: the Zionist reaction to the international resistance against the New World Order in the form of the murderous attack against activists attempting to break the illegal Israeli embargo of Gaza. The section ends with an article on the limitations of the Market Economy and Statist Planning and the need for a democratic planning as part of a Confederal Inclusive Democracy.
Finally, in the third section, the economic crisis in the Southern part of the Eurozone is examined with particular reference to the Greek debt crisis and the imperative need for a new economic union of the ‘peripheral’ countries of the Eurozone (the so called “PIGS ― Portugal, Ireland/Italy, Greece, Spain”) in the form of a confederation of European peoples, initially in the European South where they share common economic, political and social problems, as a first step towards the creation, in the future, of a new institutional framework which establishes the equal distribution of political and economic power among South European peoples, and among all citizens within each part of the confederation.
The Editorial Committee
August 2010