Talking – and writing – about a new form of war, and new types of warfare, didn’t start recently. Actually we can trace back this debate to the gulf war of 1991, it accompanied the wars in former Soviet Union and last but not least those in former Yugoslavia. Much has been written on “revolution in military affairs”, on weapon technologies, on historical and sociological aspects regarding the “new” warfare. But in doing so, most authors did hardly get out of mere typology: there is warfare led by a bunch of warlord militias, as in Somalia and Afghanistan, and their only objective seems to be a prolongation of the war, because warlord power stems from war. There is war leading to nation building as well as to breaking-up nations, as it is the case with Armenia and Azerbaijan, or again with Yugoslavia. There are civil wars and wars involving nations, not to mention the many undeclared wars of low intensity. And we observe asymmetric wars, as the one in Palestine, as the wars waged against Afghanistan, against Iraq, and the so-called war on terrorism. But we speak of a new form of war; and we do not mean typology, because the latter isn’t able to go beyond a confusing ensemble of motivations and legitimations, searching an historical precedent for every type of war.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the age of revolutions is not over. It's becoming equally clear that the global revolutionary movement in the twenty first century, will be one that traces its origins less to the tradition of Marxism, or even of socialism narrowly defined, but of anarchism.

Etienne Balibar's recent interventions have stressed the strategic importance of including the history of colonial expansionism in any critical reflection on the question of European citizenship. This inclusion, not exclusive to academic debating, is a fundamental issue of everyday life in Europe due to the 'increasingly larger and legitimate presence, despite the suffered discriminations, of populations of colonial origins in the old metropolises'.

The media in India - both the print and the audio-visual - has either outrightly trashed the WSF 04 or has raised very fundamental ethical and political questions about what in their version looks like a pointless jumboree of anti-globalisation groups from God knows where. Even those who were willing to write positive things about WSF focused either on the sensational or the iconic. The skeptics of course wondered aloud whether we managed to make another world in the week's time!

People have been trying to use the web to create change from its conception. Along with the rest of the Internet community, activist focus has moved away from producing static content to building on- line communities. There are a number of Application Service Providers (ASPs) providing external eActivist applications that can be integrated with the look and feel of an organization's existing web site, but we will not be evaluating ASPs in this article. Instead, we want to discuss eActivist applications that can be run from the same server as the organization's existing website. Furthermore, we will be looking at Free Software applications that can be downloaded, modified, and distributed by the users of the software.

I am speaking of the "Borders of Europe" in Greece, one of the "peripheral" countries of Europe in its traditional configuration--a configuration that reflects powerful myths and a long-lived series of historical events. Thessaloníki is itself at the edge of this border country, one of those places where the dialectic between confrontation with the foreigner (transformed into a hereditary enemy) and communication between civilizations (without which humanity cannot progress) is periodically played out. I thus find myself, it seems, right in the middle of my object of study, with all the resultant difficulties.

No doubt the times they’re a-changing when internal strategic debates of the ‘anti globalisation movement’ make it into mainstream publishing. According to amazon.com “Naomi Klein's No Logo told us what was wrong. Now George Monbiot’s The Age of Consent shows us how to put it right.” Its publisher, Rupert Murdoch’s HarperCollins sells Monbiot’s manifesto as “authoritative and persuasive de facto figurehead for the contrarian movements in the UK.” Environmental activist Monbiot is columnist for the Guardian and author of a bestseller about UK’s privatisation disasters.

If there was one thing I learnt at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, it was patience. Patience while trying to choose from among the scores of simultaneous events that were taking place at any given time. Patience while trying to get from one event to another, steering my way through the 100,000 people who had gathered to speak, dance, sing, march, listen, act, network and organise around every conceivable issue with any bearing on the well-being of humanity. Patience while straining to listen to voices that were barely audible in large enclosures with poor acoustics, made worse by the unrelenting din of celebration and protest outside. Patience while waiting for speeches to be translated, line-by-line, into the three or four most commonly understood languages of the audience. Another world was possible, but it was going to require a hell of a lot of patience.

The Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Culture, presided by Jan Philipp Reemtsma, has recently advanced science and culture to a whole new level: they obtained a warrant of arrest against Sebastian Luetgert, the founder of textz.com, who faces jail time if he refuses to pay around 2,300 euros in damages for the alleged copying of two essays by Theodor W. Adorno that the foundation claims as their "intellectual property". Jan Philipp Reemtsma was kindly asked to settle, but he refused. An "intellectual proprietor" of Adorno and Benjamin who claims to advance science and culture by sending people to jail for taking Adorno and Benjamin serious is seriously wrong on a whole number of points. In the end, he may even be wrong in thinking that he will ever get his property back. There is a universal right to reappropriation that will never cease to apply, and there is copyright legislation that will. Sooner or later, it will dawn upon Reemtsma that he should think of his "intellectual property" as a genie, and of his foundation is just another failing bottling company.

2004 opened with the cancellation of a number of commercial airline flights at the bequest of the US administration. This serves as a reminder of the mundane and arbitrary operation of power ("Its got to the point where if there's anybody called Mohammed aboard, your flight's got a problem" - senior airline source, quoted Guardian, 3 January 2004), and also of the renewed focus on surveillance and the ability to accurately locate potential suspects.