Showing posts with label commons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commons. Show all posts
Sunday, 25 July 2021

Transformation beyond Capitalism? The case for Degrowth!

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The global pandemic of the coronavirus has demonstrated the dangers of continuing economic growth. Relentless human encroachment on nature h...
Tuesday, 20 July 2021

Fighting for Water book launch: Recording and Responses to questions.

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In my new book Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe (Zed Books), I am investigating the underlying dynamics of the success...
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Friday, 25 June 2021

Transforming capitalism? The role of the commons and direct democracy in struggles against water privatisation in Europe.

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In my new book Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe (Zed Books/Bloomsbury, 2021), I analyse a number of struggles against ...
Saturday, 29 February 2020

Re-enchanting the world: Silvia Federici on Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.

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In her recent volume Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (PM Press, 2019), Silvia Federici fruitfully brin...
Thursday, 14 February 2019

Witch-Hunt and the Birth of Capitalism: reflections on Federici’s re-interpretation of primitive accumulation.

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In her powerful book Caliban and the Witch (Autonomedia 1998/2014), Silvia Federici makes the important claim that the medieval witch-hu...
Friday, 17 November 2017

Out of the Wreckage – George Monbiot on a new politics in an age of crisis.

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At a launch of his new book Out of the Wreckage , jointly organised by the Five Leaves Bookshop and the Centre for the Study of Social a...
Monday, 25 September 2017

Resisting water privatisation in Greece and Portugal

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In response to the Eurozone crisis, austerity and restructuring has been imposed on the European Union’s (EU) peripheral member states in...
Tuesday, 27 October 2015

“Sic Vos Non Vobis” (For You, But Not Yours): The Struggle for Public Water in Italy.

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Resistance against water privatisation is one of the success stories in the struggle against neo-liberal globalisation. And where priva...
Monday, 28 July 2014

The struggle against water privatisation: Victory for Greek union and social movements.

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Proposals to privatise the water company in Thessaloniki/Greece were overwhelmingly rejected in a referendum on 18 May 2014 with 98 per c...
Friday, 20 June 2014

Catholics in the Italian water movement!

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Last week the Italian Water Movements Forum (Forum) celebrated the anniversary of the victory in the 2011 referenda against water privatisa...