Petros Daras

Alex Galis

Anastasius Gavras

Henning Müller

John Domingue

Burkhard Stiller

Theodore Zahariadis

Frances Cleary

Srdjan Krco

Man-Sze Li

Hans Schaffers

Volkmar Lotz

Federico Alvarez

Ana Garcia

Stamatis Karnourskos

Elio Salvadori

Anne-Marie Sassen

Georgios Tselentis

Petra Turkama

Irrespective of whether we use economic or societal metrics, the Internet is one of the most important technical infrastructures in existence today. It will serve as a catalyst for much of our innovation and prosperity in the future. A competitive Europe will require Internet connectivity and services beyond the capabilities offered by current technologies. Future Internet research is therefore a must. The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) is a successful and unique bi-annual conference that brings together participants of over 150 projects from several distinct but interrelated areas in the EU Framework Programme 7. The 20 full papers included in this volume were selected from 40 submissions, and are preceded by a vision paper describing the FIA Roadmap. The papers have been organized into topical sections on the foundations of Future Internet, the applications of Future Internet, Smart Cities, and Future Internet infrastructures.

Future Internet Assembly 2012: From Promises to Reality

The Future Internet

Pig A Doodle

Samir Amin

Alexander Gallas

Patrick Bond

Vishwas Satgar

Christopher Chase-Dunn

Ferrial Adam

William K Carroll

Karina Kato

Nivedita Majumdar

Keamogetswe Seipato

Challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism BRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Volume five in the Democratic Marxism series, BRICS and the New American Imperialism challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism. It offers novel analyses of BRICS in the context of increasing US induced imperial chaos, deepening environmental crisis tendencies (such as climate change and water scarcity), contradictory dynamics inside BRICS countries and growing subaltern resistance. The authors revisit contemporary thinking on imperialism and anti-imperialism, drawing on the work of Rosa Luxemburg, one of the leading theorists after Marx, who attempted to understand the expansionary nature of capitalism from the heartlands to the peripheries. The richness of Luxemburg’s pioneering work inspires most of the volume’s contributors in their analyses of the dangerous contradictions of the contemporary world as well as forms of democratic agency advancing resistance. While various forms of resistance are highlighted, among them water protests, mass worker strikes, anti-corporate campaigning and forms of cultural critique, this volume grapples with the challenge of renewing anti-imperialism beyond the NGO-driven World Social Forum and considers the prospects of a new horizontal political vessel to build global convergence. It also explores the prospects of a Fifth International of Peoples and Workers.

Global rivalry and resistance

BRICS and the New American Imperialism

A critical examination of the contradictory rise to power of emerging economies Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

An Anticaptialist Critique

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