1. Established networks and international communities of 'interlockers' who bridge labour, radical knowledge, and social justice struggles have converged with free information/knowledge, culture, and economy communities. 2. This convergence has led to the political manifestation of movements like FLOSS, hackers' ethics, and telekommunism, as well as groups like Anonymous, LulzSec, Wikileaks, and Pirate Bay. 3. New forms of international labour communication and organizing have emerged, including projects like Unionbook and the New Unionism Network, as well as collaborative actions and global solidarity conferences.

1. Making of Global Working Class?
Transnational networks of radical labour research and
(h)activism - the dots in Collective Worker’s Global Brain

2. Capitalist restructuring > neoliberal globalisation >
proletarianisation > organic crisis
TNCs
IMF
World
Bank
OECD
UN agc.
GATS
WTO
EU
US
...
world market
informationalisation
transnationalisation
urbanisation
privatization
deregulation
liberalisation
free trade zones
flexibilisation
subcontracting
financialisation
expanding
proletariat
crisis of unions
end of class
comprimise ( deg.
social rights)
environmental
degradation
new enclosure /
global apartheid
crisis of
representation
Objective conditions of transnational working class formation
Global
Organic
Crisis

3. Transnationalisation of capitalism
Mass labour and societal control-
surveillance (socialisation),
increasing volume of transnational
exchange between societies, rising
alternative economies (both capitalist
and non-capitalist) > popular
uprisings > radicalisation and
converging transnational solidarity
Subjective conditions for transnational working class formation
Capitalist-state
restructuring,
technological
development, changes in
the capitalist mode of
production and societies,
expanding and deepening
commodification
Transnationalsiation of production
& informationalisation, new
international labour division, TCC,
race to the bottom, fiercing intra-
class struggle, transnationalisation
of the state, convergence of crises
into organic crisis of global
capitalism

4. Informationalisation of capitalism
• nano-technology, micro-chips, Internet, satellites, GSPR, cell technologies
and computer programming technology as the material base of world
market:
• financial (stock exchanges, banks, private investment and insurance firms,
large funds), military and energy networks, transnational reorganization of
production-commodity chains and int. trade (paving way to the rise of
Collective Worker at global scale) all built on ITC infrastructure
• Silicon Valley / Californian ideology (Rand) + neoliberalism: GATS, Web 2.0,
Dot.com bubble, the second enclosure, meta-data storage and analysis
leading to massive surveillance capacity for certain capital fractions
• Network society, informational or cognitive capitalism, bio- politics:
objectification of entire living labor -intellectuality, affect, creativity- in to
the machine

5. Class wars going global
• Increasingly authoritarian and fascist tendency since 9/11, under the
pressure of fierce global intra-class struggle and converging crises and
made the class war and its wide spread destruction visible in every domain.
Warren Buffet: “there is a class war going on and it is my class the one
winning…”
• Global class war has a complex configuration in terms of geographies,
social structures and agency. Innovative theoretical innovations came
about to understand this complexity
• New Imperialism, Empire, Global Capitalism debate, Global Political
Economy, Cul. Pol. Eco., governmentality, TCC, transnational state,
(transnational and systemic rivalries, fa-bourgeoisie, internal bourgeoisie),
BRICS, state capitalism, cognitive capitalism,…

6. Organic Crisis of global (transnational, informational, bio-
cognitive): corrective war, fascism, or global
emancipation?
 Restructuring process brought about many crises since the late
60s. Finally 2007 systemic, or with reference to Gramsci (Gill)
organic crisis of global capitalism has occurred
 Neoliberal-capitalist state stacked in a deep legitimacy crisis. The
restructuring was increasing the risk of accessibility to livelihoods.
After the crisis the risk climbed up to the highest level, for billions
of people and ecosystem.
 While this situation increased the chance for wide spread social
emancipation, it also brought about war and fascism threat
(revival of far right, neo-nazizm -Greece, Ukraine most visible).

7. Expansion of proletariat and the return
of labor class
 Crisis of trade unions and increasing number of
unemployed/landless proletariat
 Mass urbanisation and proletarianisation of the
periphery
 The crises worsen the lives of great majority of
working classes.
 Large segments of well paid white collar, high
educated service and knowledge workers, as well as
the self-employed increasingly become proletariat

8. Re-emergence of labour internationalism
• Google search for:
• ‘World working class’ 289.000, ‘global labor’ 242.000, ‘global working class’
150.000, ‘transnational working class’ 43.700
• Research or debates on global sociology, global labour history, global political
economy,
• Material base
• TNCs and transnational production networks,
• Immigration – immigrant networks,
• Convergence spaces like social forums built (utilizing development funding and
funding from progressive governments)
• cheaper transportation and communication expanded networking space
• to speak for the Global North, fractional divisions among theoretical/academic
and political/activist camps of Marxism(s) and Anarchism(s) become milder
• Radicalisation and marginalisation in the campus and the city

9. Radicalisation and mass interaction between
labour research, advocacy and justice activism
- Tradítional political (socialist, communist, anarchist..) activism networks:
youth camps and int. communication channels as isolated networks
- ‘Development solidarity’ based labour activism - unions – NGO sector –
labour research networks (TIE - transnational information exchange)
network, Clean Clothes Camapign, WIEGO, SOMO,..)
- Linked to academia: CLS, GWC project
- In the periphery like Sacom, China Labour Bulletin, Tarem, sigtur
- In the centre: labor notes, labournets, labourstart, global labour
strategies, war on want, street.net
- Campaigns like anti-sweatshop, asian floor-wage, basic income…
- Similar networks working on other ‘issues’ like environment, women,
youth, gender, trade, tax, social rights (most of the time varierty of
actors): our world in not for sale, seattle to brussels, attac,

10. 1. established networks and international
community of ‘interlockers’ who bridge
labour, radical knowledge, and social
justice struggles
2. Decreasing state and corporate funding,
increasing un-employment, and flexibility
brought about marginalisation and precarity
for ‘professional activists’ and activist
researchers

11. convergence with free information /knowledge,
culture and economy (sharing, solidarity, gift)
communities
Designers, Artists (digital artists): working for NGOs fincancing
independant and collective projects – Euro MayDay, processed
world..
Citizen Journalism and media activism: Indymedia, Wikileaks…
Software programmers, network (system) developers and
administrators: FLOSS projects, GNU/Linux, Free Software
Foundation, Kein.org, Net-time
Wikipedia, Pirate Bay
Alternative farming, collaborative production – sharing
economy communities: deGrowth, now-topia, global willages

12. 1. Becoming knowledge proletariat in the global north
marginalisation and radical politicisation:
2. Political manifestation of FLOSS movement, Hackers’
Ethic, Telekommunist manifesto,
3. Anonymous, LulzSec, Wikileaks, Pirate Bay, Red Hack

13. Spaces of Convergence
Social Forums (WSF-regional and national)
Joint Social Conference:
Alter-Summit:
Firenze 10+10:
LabourTech, LaborComm
2011: North Africa, 15M, Occupy, Gezi (trans. Assemblies)
Hub Meetings, Blockupy, Agora 99
Free Culture, DeGrowth, Oekanox
Chaos Computer Club, piratebay, wikileaks,
TOR, EFF…), hacktivism: anonymous, lulzsec
digital artivists,…)

14. New international labour communication
and organising
• Creative and interlocking projets: Unionbook, New Unionism
Network, Labour and Globalisation Network, Networked
Labour
• Collaborative action and mobilisation: Oakland, MayFirst,
#14N, student strikes,
• Linking factory and public space, service occupations, Spain,
Italy, Greece…
• Global Solidarity conferences , global unionism debate
• Union Solidarity International, MOOCs..

15. Global Justice and
Solidarity Movement
Struggle against
neoliberal offensive
against the public
services/ creating
alternatives popular
democratic institutions
and solidarity economy
transnational
water
movement
Solidarity
experience of
unions, ngos
and
communities in
the water
struggle
Experiences with premature networking amongst forces before the
crisis – moment of war of maneuver (working class in itself)

16. From Chipas, Seattle, Cochabamba, Porto Alegre,
Genoa to Pirate Bay, Wikileaks, Anonymous, Greece,
Tunisa, Tahrir, 15M, Occupy, Blockupy, Gezi...
 Starting in Chipas (Zapatista), Seattle (against MAI) and in
Cochabamba (against TNCs) we have observed that the
counter-hegemonic movements entered in a new era.
 Since then social movement were learning and building
layers of networks , existing ones strengthened and spread,
there has been are concrete results in divers fields against
neoliberalism.
 Within this context national (i.e. water) struggles got
connected within a transnational space and became a global
movement in which trade unions, informal labour
organisations, communities, social movements took place.

17. watershed for dispossessed, workers,
unemployed and landless
 Question is: in what way the access to drinking water
will be improved and expanded?
 It has been experienced long enough to see clearly
that the capitalist state does not and will not have any
motivation to answer this critical question
 With its welfare, developmentalist or neoliberal forms
capitalist state institutions and strategies work with a
logic that excludes majority interest

18. solidarity, resistance, and building alternatives
 It is observed that left political groups, trade unions,
other forms of labour organizations, lower segments of
urban middle classes, landless peasants,
environmentalists, women groups, etc. came together
to resist (in Bolivia, Italy, Turkey, Mexico..)
neoliberalism
 Labour, especially informal labour and unemployed has
played important actor resisting privatisation
 Within several years the movement moves from local
to global level and from resistance to alternative norm
and institution building

19. cracking the state and capital, reclaiming the
commons
 Reaction to the offensive [of a transnational historic
bloc] towards the state has given important results
 Water movement has developed successful case for
public water and a strong discourse against the PPPs
 Private property in the means of production and
natural resources started to be examined more
consciously by wider society
 Idea and sense of common/public property is
promoted successfully and direct participation of
agency of water movement to water delivery is put in
practice

20. innovative, constructive, and p2p networked
struggle against war and facism, for rights,
democracy and transition is necessary
 It is necessary to harmonize struggles against the global
offensive of state-capital partnerships towards labour, social
rights and the poor
 Reconstruction of public sphere and organisation of informal
labour needs to be innovatively combined, some social
movements would play key role
 The struggle needs to organised in a way that it addresses the
core institutions of capitalism as private property, competition,
profit, etc.
 It is important to be innovative, constructive and solution
focused and striving to keep middle classes at the progressive
side

21. Buttom-up and networked transnational
solidarity
 Obstacles before transnational solidarity
 interest and identity differentiation, nationalism, divide
and rule, wars, military occupations and civil
interventions, co-optation, sectarial- hierarchical left and
trade union politics,
• Actively working on overcoming the obstacles

22. Resistance
Alternative culture,
norm, idea, and
institutions
Joining alternatives
Local
National
Regional
International
Transnational
Global
Complex Equation of Transnational Solidarity
Labor, social movements,
unions, progressive
parties, governments,
alternative- communities
(hackers, makers,
State
Culture
Economics
Ethics
Governing
Polity
Policy
Politics
Complex matrix of transnational solidarity
(forging war of movement)