interface: A call for papers "crises, social movements and revolutionary transforma

Interface: a journal for and about social movements

Issue two: "civil society vs social movements"

The second issue of Interface, a peer-reviewed e-journal produced and refereed by social movement practitioners and engaged movement researchers, is now available at www.interfacejournal.net on the special theme of "civil society vs social movements": the different relationships between movements, NGOs and other forms of organising.

Interface is open-access, global (with articles from South Africa, Brazil, Thailand, Angola, Central and Eastern Europe, the USA and western Europe in this issue) and programmatically multilingual (this issue has pieces in 4 languages). Our overall aim is to "learn from each other's struggles": to develop a dialogue between researchers and practitioners, but also between different social movements, intellectual traditions and national contexts.

This issue of Interface includes 19 pieces and 357 pages, including

- Activist interview with S'bu Zikode (Abahlali baseMjondolo)

- Peer-reviewed articles: Michael Punch on community organising in Dublin, Beppe de Sario on grassroots voluntary activism in post-1977 Turin, Prado, Machado and Carmona on LGBTQ struggles in Brazil, Grzegorz Piotrowski on civil society in Central and Eastern Europe, Jenny Payne on feminist media and Piotr Konieczyny on Wikipedia as social movement

- Action notes: Giles Ungpakorn on the collusion of Thai NGOs with royalism, Carlos Figueiredo on Angolan civil society, Christof Mackinger on the criminalisation of animal rights activism and Anja Eickelberg on educational campaigns in Brazil

- Key documents: Peter Waterman on global labour organising and Michael Neocosmos on rethinking militancy in Africa

- Reviews of Incite! Women of color against violence, The revolution will not be funded; Heidi Swarts, Organizing urban America;  Anna Schober, Ironie, Montage und Verfremdung; and GL Francione, Animals as persons.

Interface is keen to find IT collaborators who can help us make the site more useful and accessible to movement activists, and translators to support our multilingual project; for more details see . http://www.interfacejournal.net/2009/01/looking-for-it-activist-allies.html . We are also looking for activists or academics interested in helping out, particularly with our African, Arab world, South Asian, Spanish-speaking Latin American, East and Central European, and Oceania / SE Asian groups. For more details please see http://www.interfacejournal.net/2008/03/editorial-contacts.html.

A call for papers for issue three is now open, on the theme of "crises, social movements and revolutionary transformations" (deadline January 1 2010). We can review and publish articles in Afrikaans, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Maltese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Zulu. Full details at http://www.interfacejournal.net/2009/08/call-for-papers-issue-3-crises-social.html .