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While election seasons are widely seen as times when the polity practices politics, this is an illusion; electoralism that accepts the premises of representative democracy is conceptually distinct and incompatible with practicing true politics. Politics involves public debate on the issues of a self-manging political community that leads to social policy. Voting is [...]

- From Gene Traders: Biotechnology, World Trade and the Globalization of Hunger,
Burlington, VT: Toward Freedom, 2004.

Chapter 3

The World Bank, which celebrates its sixtieth anniversary in 2004, has underwritten several of the most environmentally devastating projects ever undertaken in the name of progress and economic “development.” Wherever people are displaced and communities [...]

(In 2003 I was asked by the Institute for Anarchist Studies to write a response to Jason McQuinn’s essay “Post-Left Anarchy: Leaving the Left Behind.” McQuinn’s essay can be found here: http://www.insurgentdesire.org.uk/postleft.htm The essay below is my response.)

Since the editors of Anarchy Magazine began promoting it several years ago, the vague category of post-left [...]

Sidebar to “Control through Contamination” by S’ra Desantis

For ISE Biotechnology Project and ACERCA

June 2003

A recent delegation to the rainforest of southeastern Mexico discovered that issues of biopiracy and GMOs are very much on the minds of campesinos, activists and traditional healers in the highlands of Chiapas and beyond. The delegation [...]