Contributors - The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Fall 2010)

The International Journal of INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Fall 2010)

Contributors

Takis Fotopoulos is a political philosopher, editor of Society & Nature/Democracy and Nature/The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy. He is also a columnist for the Athens Daily Eleftherotypia. He was previously (1969–1989) Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of North London. He is the author of Towards An Inclusive Democracy (London & New York: Cassell, 1997) which has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Chinese and of the book The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy, published by the International Journal of Inclusive Democracy (2005). His last book in English is The Pink Revolution in Iran and the “Left” (International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, 2009). He has also contributed to several books in English, Italian, Chinese, Polish and Greek. He is also the author of numerous books in Greek on development; the Gulf War; the neo-liberal consensus; the New World Order; the drug culture; the New Order in the Balkans; the new irrationalism; globalisation and the Left; the war against “terrorism”; Chomsky’s capitalism and Albert’s metacapitalism; the present multi-dimensional crisis; Inclusive Democracy: 10 years after and The present capitalist crisis and the antisystemic movement. His latest book in Greek is Greece as a protectorate of the transnational elite: The need for an immediate exit from the EU and for a self-reliant economy (Athens: Gordios, November 2010). He is also the author of over 900 articles in British, American and Greek theoretical journals, magazines and newspapers, several of which have been translated into over twenty languages (see : http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/fotopoulos/).

Editorial Team of the Catalan ID group The Catalan ID group was formed in March 2010 by various activists which have been studying the ID project during the previous year. They have translated many articles of The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy into Catalan and Spanish. They also have done several lectures around Catalunya about the various aspects of the ID project. The Editorial Team of this group is in charge of the DEMOS magazine and other publications for the promotion of the ID project in Catalunya. http://www.democraciainclusiva.org/

Douglas Lain is the author of dozens of short stories and two novels. He has hosted the excellent weekly Diet Soap Podcast ( http://dietsoap.podomatic.com/ ) for more than a year. Doug recognizes that he is a member of the entertained public — a public that Guy Debord described in his 1978 film In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni as “dying in droves on the freeways, and in each flu epidemic and each heat wave, and with each mistake of those who adulterate their food, and each technical innovation profitable to the numerous entrepreneurs for whose environmental developments they serve as guinea pigs”. Doug Lain lives in Portland, Oregon. http://www.douglaslain.com/

John Sargis is a political activist and organizer in Paterson, New Jersey. He is also assistant editor of The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy to which he makes frequent contributions. He is a contributor to the book Globalised Capitalism, The Eclipse of the Left and Inclusive Democracy ed. by Steven Best (Athens: Koukkida, May 2008) published also as a special issue of the Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter 2009). He taught secondary school biology in Paterson, New Jersey for twenty-six years and he also used to function as a union leader.

Ted Trainer teaches in the Faculty of Arts, University of New South Wales. His main interests have been global problems, sustainability issues, radical critiques of the economy, alternative social forms and the transition to them. He has written numerous books and articles on these topics, including Abandon Affluence (London: Zed, 1985); The Conserver Society: Alternatives for Sustainability (London: Zed, 1995) and Saving the Environment: What It Will Take (Sydney: University of N.S.W Press, 1998). He is also developing Pigface Point, an alternative lifestyle educational site near Sydney, and a website.