Global
Capitalism. Global War. Global Crisis. How can these conditions be
understood in terms of their internal relationship so as to capture capital’s
connection to the states-system of uneven and combined development, social
reproduction, and the contradictions facing humanity within world-ecology?
These are the puzzles Adam David Morton and I are investigating in our recently published book with Cambridge University
Press.
When in May 2014 98 per cent of
Thessaloniki’s citizens voted against the privatisation of their municipal
water company EYATH and the Greek constitutional court, the Council of State,
ruled out the privatisation of Athens’ water company EYDAP as unconstitutional
shortly afterwards, the public ownership of these two companies seemed to have
been secured (see Resisting
water privatisation in Greece and Portugal). And yet, when the Syriza
government signed the third bailout agreement of Greece in July 2015, the
privatisation of water was back on the agenda. In this blog post, I will report
on the struggle over public water since July 2015, based on a set of
semi-structured interviews with water activists in Thessaloniki and Athens in
April 2018.
