On Friday night, campaigners associated with the Occupy and Anonymous collectives took to Twitter, Instagram and other social-media platforms with the hashtag #Gitmo2Chicago to decry allegations of what users alternatively labeled as a "secret prison" and "torture soon coming to a city near you".
Budapest's art scene is a diverse mix of Hungarians and international artists, with thriving grass-roots galleries and collectives like Műszi, Budapest Art Factory and Puccs.
But it does not make clear who represents these collectives.
Late last year groups in different parts of China began simply claiming land as their own individual private plots.China's constitution decrees that rural land is owned by "collectives".
Speculation is now rife as to whether factions within the government are at odds over reining in the armed collectives, whose "social cleansing" activities are often combined with common crime and who may even have been involved in the Serra case.
Big software firms derided the idea that anyone would put their trust in free software written by mysterious online collectives.
We hope to open voucher procedures next autumn.In smaller privatisations, involving fewer than 200 workers, we are trying to move as fast as we can, though here too there is conflict between workers' collectives and other possible owners.
The slogan comes from La Piedrita, one of a dozen or so armed pro-government "collectives" that have carved out territories in the teeming western barrios of the Venezuelan capital.
Atlantic Books; 385 pages; £25A peerless economic and political commentator, 71-year-old Samuel Brittan makes the case, both moral and economic, for individuals over collectives, and for markets over coercion ideas that put him at odds with conservatives as well as with liberals.
Faced with mass starvation, the government disbanded the Soviet-style agricultural collectives, freeing farmers to grow and sell their own crops.
However, in China the freehold of the land remains vested in local collectives, without a clear indication of who represents them.
