‘Enclosures, Power, Commons’
Each of the articles in this number of The Commoner addresses one particular facet of the strategic and theoretical nodes we need to tackle in order to change the world: the polarity between enclosures and commons and their link, power.

- Introduction by the Editors: Enclosures, Power, Commons [PDF]
- John Holloway: Beyond Power. Chapter 3 from “Change the world without taking power” [PDF]
- John Holloway: Twelve theses [PDF]
- Ruth Rikowski: The Capitalisation of Libraries [PDF]
- Richard Barbrook: The Regulation of Liberty: free speech, free trade and free gifts on the Net [PDF]
‘What makes the constitution of a state really strong and durable is such a close observance of [social] conventions that natural relations and laws come to be in harmony on all points, so that the law…seems only to ensure, accompany and correct what is natural.’
[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]
We start from the scream, not from the word.
Faced with the mutilation of human lives by capitalism,
a scream of sadness, a scream of horror, a scream of anger, a scream of refusal: NO.
[John Holloway]
All that is solid melts into air…the need of a constantly expanding market for its product chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.
(Marx and Engels, 1848)