Ago. 2016: libros y articulos sobre control obrero, Ven., Col. y más

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1. Libros nuevos: "La construcción de los dos lados. Poder constituido y poder constituyente en Venezuela" [2 Volumenes], El Perro y la Rana, 2015 (castellano); "An Alternative Labour History. Worker Control and Workplace Democracy" (Zed Books) y "Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela. Building 21st Century Socialism from Below" (Brill, Nov. 2016)

2. Documentales: "Ocupar, resistir, producir - Vio.Me.", 2015. 30 min, y más (Castellano)

3. Audios/Videos (English/Deutsch)

4. Articulos academicos: Ensayos en libros y revistas (English/Deutsch/Italiano)

5. Entrevistas y artículos periodisticos (English/Serbio)

6. Reseñas (English)

7. Conferencias (Dangio-Torre, CH)

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Hola! Épale!

Otra vez ha pasado bastante tiempo desde el último newsletter. He tenido mucho trabajo...

Desde agosto hasta diciembre estaré para un semestre en el exterior, en el Murphy Institute (Instituto de Labor Studies de la City University of New York).

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Estoy contento de anunciar que en noviembre será publicado mi nuevo libro "Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela. Building 21st Century Socialism from Below" por Brill como edición academica, y unos meses después a un precio más accesible por Haymarket (véase punto 1).

El libro cubre el tiempo entre 1998 y 2014. Sin embargo, también en medio de la actual crisis multiple en Venezuela, que es fomentada por los bajos precios de petróleo, violencia opositora, guerra económica de los empresarios privados, ataques políticos y económicos de EEUU, corrupción, falta de acción del gobierno... los impulsos positivos de como superar la crisis y el modelo rentista/extractivista capitalista, de las comunas y las iniciativas a favor del control obrero.

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La situación en Venezuela está muy mal. La crisis golpea especialmente al 80% con menos recursos, mientras el 20% que tiene accesso a dolares o a beines con los cuales especular, está viviendo un fiestín con precios muy bajos a causa de la inflación tan alta.

Sin embargo hay que mantener las relaciones... algo que la prensa internacional no hace ya que está en una cruzada permanente en contra de Venezuela:

- Venezuela no es el único país en crisis y recesión, casi todos los países de America Latina viven una crísis.

- En Argentinien y Brasil hay millones de personas participando en manifestaciones, bloqueos, ocupaciones y no se encuentra nada en la prensa internacional. En Venezuela la oposición no ha logrado juntar más de 4.000 personas en manifestaciones desde las movilizaciones electorales a finales de 2015. Es un hecho que la mayoría de la población venezolana no confía en el gobierno para solucionar la crisis y mucho menos en la oposición.

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Por lo general a nivel global podemos observar como las élites están fallando completamente con sus intenciones y hechando todo por abajo. Mientras en los 1970s y 1980s tenían ideas claras y planes concretos para los cambios que querían y avanzaban un proyecto social concreto (por supuesto uno que no compartimos en absoluto), hoy en día no tienen ni la más mínima idea de como enfrentar la crisis multiple... guerras, refugiados, Brexit, golpe frio en Brasil, autoritarismo religioso-fascista en Turquía, ISIS/Daesh, autoritarismo, militarización y estado policial represivo en la mayoría de los países europeos, Trump en EEUU, casi un 50% de fascistas en las elecciones en Austria... Por el otro lado los medios no informan ni mencionan las protestas masivas populares y de izquierdas en contra de los efectos de la crisis multiple: Mientras en Francia hubo durante meses manifestaciones, bloqueos, huelgas con la participación de millones en contra de las reformas de las leyes de trabajo, los canales de televisión nos presentaron durante dos semanas unas tres docenas de hooligans rusos e ingleses que se daban madrizas; mientras en Brasil, Argentina y Chile hay cientos de miles de persoas en las calles, los medios internacionales no muestran nada...

Son tempos movidos que pueden inclinarse hacia un lado o el otro. No nos ayudará ningún reformismo ni lamearle las botas a la socialdemocracia. Tiempos radicales requieren soluciones radicales.

Mantenganse en la lucha, venceremos, no hay otra,

Dario Azzellini

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1. Libros (Castellano/English)

"La construcción de los dos lados. Poder constituido y poder constituyente en Venezuela" [2 Volumenes], El Perro y la Rana, 2015

Dario Azzellini: La construcción de los dos lados: poder constituido y poder constituyente en Venezuela Con la presente obra, el autor estudia el proceso de transformación social en Venezuela entre 1999 y 2009. Se propone un análisis sobre la extensión de la participación popular en el Estado y en la sociedad, ubicando la mirada hacia las tensiones y contradicciones que se generan en este proceso “de dos lados” (poder constituido por un lado y poder constituyente por otro) con base en una detenida revisión del desarrollo y práctica de la “democracia participativa y protagónica” a partir del primer estudio empírico a fondo sobre los Consejos Comunales y sus efectos en las comunidades. ¿Qué contradicciones y conflictos se generan de la particularidad del proceso venezolano por seguir caminos y estrategias “desde arriba” y “desde abajo” al mismo tiempo? ¿Es posible abrir una perspectiva emancipadora de esta manera? Con estas preguntas, el estudio del proceso venezolano que se da en este libro no está motivado solamente por un interés académico, sino también por un profundo interés político para buscar y pensar las posibilidades de cambios radicales en la construcción de nuevas

Descargar pdf: http://www.elperroylarana.gob.ve/serie-biblioteca-roja/431-la-construccion-de-los-dos-lados-poder-constituido-y-poder-constituyente-en-venezuela.html

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Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela.

Building 21st Century Socialism from Below. Dario Azzellini, Johannes Kepler. University Linz, Austria. November 2016

In Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela: Building 21st Century Socialism from Below, Dario Azzellini offers an account of the Bolivarian Revolution from below. While authors on Venezuela commonly concentrate on former president Hugo Chávez and government politics, this book shows how workers, peasants and the poor in urban communities engage in building 21st century socialism through popular movements, communal councils, communes and fighting for workers' control. In a relationship of cooperation and conflict with the state, social transformation is approached on 'two tracks', from below and from above. Azzellini’s fascinating account stands out because of the extensive empirical examples and original voices from movements, communal councils, communes and workers.

Out in November 2016 with Brill and a bit later as paperback with Haymarket.

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"An Alternative Labour History. Worker Control and Workplace Democracy" (English) Dario Azzellini (Ed.), 352 pages, ISBN: 9781783601547, £18.99 / $27.95

The global financial crisis has led to a new shop floor militancy. Radical forms of protest and new workers' takeovers have sprung-up all over the globe. In the US, Republic Windows and Doors started production under worker control in January 2013, later that year workers in Greece took over and managed, on their own, a hotel, a hospital, a newspaper, a TV channel and a factory. The dominant revolutionary left has viewed workers' control as part of a system necessary during a transition to socialism. Yet most socialist and communist parties have neglected to promote workers' control as it challenges the centrality of parties and it is in this spirit that trade unions, operating through the institutional frameworks of government, have held a monopoly over labor history. Tracing Marx's writings on the Paris Commune through council communism, anarcho-syndicalism, Italian operaismo, and other 'heretical' left currents, this book uncovers the practices and intentions of historical and contemporary autonomous workers' movements that have been largely obscured until now... George Ciccariello-Maher, Drexel University, author of "We created Chávez": 'Dario Azzellini has emerged as arguably the most important contemporary analyst of worker self-management. Casting a critical eye toward non-revolutionary forms of workers' control, Azzellini and the contributors to this volume enrich our understanding while pressing us ever more toward the radical and transformative experiences in workplace management that have become a resurgent hallmark of our moment."

Read more and see table of content: http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/node/20812

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Read chapter 2: Contemporary Crisis and Workers Control (English) Chapter taken from “An Alternative Labour History” | Edited by Dario Azzellini and published by Zed Books
During the first decade of the current century, factory occupations and production under workers’ control seemed to be limited mainly to South America, with a few exceptions in Asia...

Continue reading:
http://www.azzellini.net/node/2851 http://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=13729

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2. Documentales (Español/Italiano/English/Deutsch/Greek):

Ocupar, resistir, producir - Vio.Me. Por Dario Azzellini y Oliver Ressler, 2015. 30 min.

Vio.Me. en Tesalónica fabricaba pegamento industrial, aislamientos y otros materiales de construcción químicos. En 2010 los trabajadores y trabajadoras fueron enviados cada 4 ó 6 semanas de vacaciones sin cobrar sueldo. Cuando en julio de 2011 el propietario dejó de pagar los salarios totalmente, los trabajadores decidieron ocupar la planta y hacerse cargo de su propio futuro. En febrero de 2013 Vio.Me. empezó a producir productos de limpieza orgánicos y jabón orgánico y se constituyó en cooperativa con el fin de poder operar legalmente. Sin embargo, Vio.Me. no funciona como una cooperativa tradicional. Los trabajadores no consideran que la empresa sea de su propiedad sino un bien común que debe servir a la comunidad.

Ver documental (Greek/Español): http://www.azzellini.net/es/filme/ocupar-resistir-producir-viome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5jWQRrIhs

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3. Audios/Videos (English/Deutsch)

Dario Azzellini - Production and Common - What are we talking about?

Altra News: 19.03.2016, 16 min.

Commons is determined by the wish of stakeholders to govern a resource together, a principle which contests property rights on this resource. Nevertheless, the term resource is misleading, since the commons depends on activity, on using and taking care, agreeing on rules and finding systems to regulate use and access in order to create a sustainable common. Therefore, there is no commons without commoning (Linebaugh 2008). While originally applied to natural resources, the concept of commons or commoning has been extended to other spheres in recent years. We want to apply this political concept to labour and production in a mainly urban context. For that we recur to a practice coming from the global South, mainly Latin America, which spread to the global North during the contemporary crisis: Workers’ recuperations of closed down companies. In this context it is also interesting to look at how the workers themselves in the recuperated companies develop a link between the social and the ecological question.

http://www.azzellini.net/en/interviews/dario-azzellini-production-and-common-what-are-we-talking-about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tWFKVzHbhk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0CPo9mCPy0

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Athens Biennale 2015-2017 "OMONOIA": Introducing a laboratory for production post-2011

23.12.2015 athensbiennale | 10,22 min.

Dario Azzellini is an assistant professor for sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.
He published several books, essays and documentaries. His latest books are An Alternative Labour History: Worker Control and Workplace Democracy (Zed Books 2015) and together with Marina Sitrin They Can’t Represent Us. Reinventing Democracy From Greece to Occupy (Verso 2014). He collaborated with Oliver Ressler on various films and they are now producing Occupy, Resist, Produce, a documentary series on factories under workers control in Europe.

http://www.azzellini.net/en/interviews/athens-biennale-2015-2017-omonoia...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWWivIgb1ck#t=87

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Dario Azzellini: Building the left from below
25.01.2016 CPE | 53 min

Talk on workers' recuperated companies (53 min. with discussion) at the CPE conference Building the Left from Below in Belgrade, Dezember 2015

http://www.azzellini.net/interviews/dario-azzellini-building-left-below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8oC-iGZ9rI

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Watch Dario Azzellini: "Crisis and workers' control"

16.12.2015 Documentation & Communication Teams
Athens Biennale 2015-2017 "OMONOIA"

Synapse 1: Introducing a laboratory for production post-2011
Session I: Alternative Economies
Precarious Labour: Dario Azzellini, Andrea Fumagalli, Maurizio Atzeni
This session explored four institutions of human economy – alternative currencies, cooperativism, urban welfare and commons – and reflected on how these forms can become permanent and sustainable alternatives.

Watch Dario Azzellini "Crisis and workers' control"
http://www.azzellini.net/node/2923
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY1TICA4wNM&feature=youtu.be

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Rätedemokratie: Alternative zu Parlament und Kapitalismus?

Marx21, Juni 2016, 33 min.

Dario Azzellini

Welche Alternativen von demokratischer Selbstorganisierung der Gesellschaft jenseits des Parlaments und des Kapitalismus können wir uns vorstellen? Ist das Modell einer selbstverwalteten Rätedemokratie dafür tauglich? In dieser Podiumsveranstaltung stellen Autor und Filmemacher Dario Azzelini und marx21-Koordinierungskreismitglied Stefan Bornost ihre Überlegungen hierzu vor.

http://www.azzellini.net/artikel/raetedemokratie-alternative-zu-parlamen...
https://soundcloud.com/marx21

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Gewerkschaftsarbeit in Nord und Süd – VOR ORT 32

Freies Radio Salzkammergut: 08.04.2016, 43 min.

Am 16. März 2016 hatte Sepp Wall-Strasser, der Bildungssekretär des ÖGB in Oberösterreich, zu einem Themenfrühstück GewerkschafterInnen und BetriebsrätInnen eingeladen.

Dabei wurde ein vor kurzem erschienenes Schwerpunktheft des Journals für Entwicklungspolitik "Gewerkschaftsarbeit in Nord und Süd" vorgestellt und mit anwesenden AutorInnen der Johannes Kepler Universität dieses Heftes über die Herausforderungen der Internationalen Gewerkschaftsarbeit diskutiert. Schwerpunktmäßig ging es dabei um Fragen im Kontext mit "Welche Auswirkungen haben Standort- und Steuerwettbewerb, Lohndruck und Migration auf internationale Zusammenarbeit und Solidarität sowie die österreichische Gewerkschaftsbewegung?"

http://www.azzellini.net/interviews/gewerkschaftsarbeit-nord-und-sued-%E...
https://cba.fro.at/312872

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4. Articulos academicos: Ensayos en libros y revistas (English/German/Italiano)

Azzellini, Dario (2016): “The Communal State (Venezuela): Communal Councils and Workplace Democracy”. In: DuRand, Cliff (Editor): Moving Beyond Capitalism. New York: Routledge.

The book speaks to the widespread quest for concrete alternative ways forward 'beyond capitalism' in the face of the prevailing corporatocracy and a capitalist system in crisis. It examines a number of institutions and practices now being built in the nooks and crannies of present societies and that point beyond capitalism toward a more equal, participatory, and democratic society – institutions such as cooperatives, public banks, the commons, economic democracy. This seminal collection of critical studies draws on academic and activist voices from the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Argentina, and from a variety of theoretical-political perspectives – Marxism, anarchism, feminism, and Zapatismo.

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2951
https://www.routledge.com/Moving-Beyond-Capitalism/DuRand/p/book/9781472...

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Worker Control and Workplace Democracy. An Alternative Labour History October 2015, dérive

Over the past 135 years, in all kinds of historical situations and during various political and economic crises and in different political systems, workers have taken control of their workplaces. Yet this story of workers self-administered production is rarely told. Capitalists, bourgeois governments and administrators of systems based on the exploitation of workers usually have little interest in disseminating the history of self-organized workers; those who have successfully run factories without bosses. In the early 20th century workers tried to gain control over production in social and socialist revolutions, like those in Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia and Spain, and under state socialism, as in Yugoslavia, Poland or Hungary; they did so as well in anti- colonial struggles and democratic revolutions in Argentina, Algeria, Indonesia and Portugal, to just name a few examples.

Continue reading:
http://www.azzellini.net/node/2912
http://www.derive.at/index.php?p_case=2&id_cont=1340&issue_No=61

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A Preview of the Future. Workers’ Control in the Context of a Global Systemic Crisis. Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler. In: Utopian Pulse: Flares in the Darkroom, Pluto Press. London, 2015

Originating in a bold exhibition at the Secession in Vienna, this book examines moments in social and cultural life where there are glimpses of utopia, where other possibilities of being are imagined and even partially realised

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2852
http://utopian-pulse.org/

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Besetzen, Widerstand leisten, produzieren. Betriebsbesetzungen in Argentinien, Brasilien, Uruguay und Venezuela

2015, JOURNAL FÜR ENTWICKLUNGSPOLITIK: Gewerkschaftsarbeit in Nord und Süd, Volume XXXI • Issue 2

Der Beitrag betrachtet die Besetzung von Betrieben und die Übernahme der Produktion durch die Beschäftigten in Argentinien, Brasilien, Uruguay und, in geringerem Maße, Venezuela. Dabei werden die „Rückeroberten Betrieben unter Arbeiterkontrolle“ (RBA) als mögliche Wiederbelebung von Arbeitskämpfen analysiert und sowohl Diﬀerenzen zu den dominanten gewerkschaftlichen Herangehensweisen und Praktiken als auch die Unterschiede zu herkömmlichen Genossenschaften herausgearbeitet.

http://www.azzellini.net/akademische-veroeffentlichungen/besetzen-widers...

http://www.mattersburgerkreis.at/site/de/publikationen/jep/alleausgabena...

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Paramilitarismus in Kolumbien – Der illegale bewaffnete Arm der Eliten und des Kapitals.
Der Paramilitarismus ist ein strategisches Projekt und ein integraler Bestandteil des Staates

Die Paramilitärs in Kolumbien sind der bewaffnete Arm der Eliten, der von allen staatlichen Behörden, auf sämtlichen Verwaltungsebenen und in allen sozialen Schichten unterstützt wird oder damit verwoben ist. Sie wurden mithilfe der kolumbianischen Armee, mehrerer kolumbianischer und US-amerikanischer Geheimdienste und von Söldnern gebildet. Der Paramilitarismus ist ein strategisches Projekt und ein integraler Bestandteil des Staates. Die Paramilitärs spielen eine zentrale Rolle bei der Durchsetzung eines kapitalistischen neoliberalen Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsmodells mit enormen Verdienstspannen.

22.06.2016, amerika21.de

Der Beitrag ist erschienen in Ugalde, Alexander; Freytter-Florian, Jorge (Hg.): "Gegenwart und Zulunft Kolumbiens in Zeiten der Hoffnung" (Presente y futuro de Colombia en tiempos de esperanzas). Donostia: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)

http://www.azzellini.net/buchbeitraege/paramilitarismus-kolumbien-%E2%80%93-der-illegale-bewaffnete-arm-der-eliten-und-des-kapitals
https://amerika21.de/analyse/152975/paramilitarismus-kolumbien

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Dario Azzellini: Keine Verdichtung unter dieser Nummer. Das Fenster zu gesellschaftlicher Veränderung hat sich in Griechenland und Spanien wieder geschlossen

Dezember 2015, PROKLA 181, S. 637-648

Editorial: Nur ein knappes Vierteljahrhundert nach ihrer Ausrufung durch den damaligen US-Präsidenten George H.W. Bush befindet sich die „neue Weltordnung“ in Auflösung. Der Konflikt in der Ukraine, die (Bürger-) Kriege im Nahen Osten und der Aufstieg des IS, die jüngsten Fluchtbewegungen, die Weltwirtschaftskrise und die durch sie beschleunigten Verschiebungen zugunsten der BRICS-Staaten (Brasilien, Russland, Indien, China, Südafrika), die Krise in der EU, die Konflikte um natürliche Ressourcen und nicht zuletzt ökologische Krisenphänomene wie der Klimawandel haben die Vorstellung einer friedlichen globalen Entwicklung unter kapitalistischen Vorzeichen und unter US-amerikanischer Führung gründlich desavouiert.

Weiterlesen: http://www.prokla.de/2015/12/11/editorial-prokla-181/

http://www.azzellini.net/akademische-veroeffentlichungen/keine-verdichtu...

Leer artículo en línea:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289252033_Keine_Verdichtung_unt...

http://www.academia.edu/20019463/Keine_Verdichtung_unter_dieser_Nummer._...

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Azzellini, Dario; Castronovo, Alioscia: “Le imprese recuperate in Europa”. In: De Nicola, Alberto; Quattrocchi, Biagio (ed.) (2016): Sindacalismo sociale. Lotte e invenzioni istituzionali nella crisi europea. Roma: DeriveApprodi

Dentro questo lungo ciclo di crisi, in diversi paesi europei, sembrano prendere corpo inedite forme di partecipazione politica e di lotta sociale. Ben lungi dall’essere semplicemente reazioni difensive contro le politiche di austerità, di smantellamento del welfare state universale, di compressione dei salari, di aumento della precarizzazione del lavoro e dell’impoverimento, queste lotte presentano un carico di sperimentazione e innovazione capace forse di imprimere una nuova fisionomia alle forme di organizzazione dei conflitti sociali. Pratiche di riappropriazione del reddito e autogestione dei servizi, esperimenti di mutualismo, nuove forme di conflitti sul lavoro e per il salario, esperienze costituenti di nuove istituzionali autonome, fino ad arrivare all’ipotesi di costruzione di inedite soggettività politiche che reinventano lo spazio della rappresentanza istituzionale e del governo.

Contributi di: Adalgiso Amendola, Marco Assennato, Dario Azzellini e Alioscia Castronovo, Alberto De Nicola e Biagio Quattrocchi, Veronica Gago e Sandro Mezzadra, Michael Hardt, Toni Negri, Francesco Raparelli e Cristian Sica, Raúl Sanchez Cedilo e Lotta Meri Pirita Tenhunen.

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2954
http://www.deriveapprodi.org/2016/05/sindacalismo-sociale/

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5. Entrevistas y artículos periodisticos (English/Serbio)

Workers Control in Venezuela and Beyond: An Interview with Dario Azzelini

Marko Miletić | lefteast, March 20, 2016

Could you comment on the results of elections in Venezuela, as well as the situation in that country after the elections?

The results (55 seats for government parties and 112 for the opposition) look so extreme because of the election mode – 80% of the PM’s are elected by majority mode. In percentage it’s around 41% for government parties and 56% for the opposition. Obviously it is still a bad result.

The result has various causes. Venezuela has suffered severe economic attacks over the last two years – shortage of food and other goods caused by capitalist producers, also they are smuggling it and keep hiding production, not producing and all kind of things. That was followed by a campaign of paramilitary groups who have constantly been sabotaging electricity distribution. After the elections Maduro also pointed that out as one of the main reasons for loss. But I think that is a mistake. Obviously, these attacks are serious but we had situations in Venezuela under Chavez when the economic situation was even worse and people did not turn against the government. So the main discontent is not that there is an economic war, but how the government dealt with the problem or whether it dealt with it at all.

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2958
http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/workers-control-in-venezuela-and-beyond/

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Društvena transformacija zahteva otvoreni put

04.03.2016 masina.rs: Marko Miletić

Dario Acelini (Dario Azzelini) je teoretičar i politički aktivista koji živi na relaciji Berlin – Karakas. Tokom njegove nedavne posete Beogradu i učešću na konferenciji "Vratimo socijalizam u igru" imali smo priliku da razgovaramo o različitim temama kojima se bavio u svom radu – od toga zašto je Maduro izgubio izbore, preko odnosa umetnosti i politike do radničkih preuzimanja fabrika po Evropi.

Acelini je doktorirao političke nauke i sociologiju, a trenutno radi kao asistent profesor na katedri za sociologiju na Johannes Kepler univerzitetu u Lincu. U svojoj praksi, pisanjima i istraživanjima bavi se mogućnostima radničke kontrole proizvodnje, samoupravljanjem, migracijijama i društvenim pokretima. Jedan je od osnivača portala Workers Control. U saradnji sa Oliverom Reslerom uradio je seriju dokumentarnih filmova o fabrikama koje su pod kontrolom radnika i radnica ali i o društvenim pokretima u Južnoj Americi.

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6. Reseñas (English)

September, 2015, Journal of Economic and Social Thought Donny Gluckstein:

"An alternative Labour History"

This book covers a wide variety of proletarian struggles to take control of the workplace from capitalists. This extends over a century - from the Austrian revolution in 1919 to recent events in Greece. It also covers theoretical questions (such as Pannekoek's council communism) to the practical issues faced by workers' cooperatives attempting to compete in the market place. The geographical spread from places as far apart as Brazil, Canada, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Italy, and Uruguay presents a little known history. Although the numerous authors do not offer a single perspective, the book posits both an alternative to parliamentary social democracy and those who ignore the working class as a factor in social transformation. Inevitably these experiences have succumbed to the surrounding capitalist environment but they point both to the persistence of striving for direct democracy and its potential as a real alternative to the current system.

continue reading:
http://www.azzellini.net/node/2911 http://kspjournals.org/index.php/JEST/article/view/466/504

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September 2015, tribunemagazine.org

Sheila Cohen: Inspirational stories of workers’ struggles in the battle for workplace democracy

This collection has already received copious commendation, with compliments ranging from “a resource for comprehending the past and conceptualizing the future” to “a must-read for those seeking fresh ways out of the current global morass”. Indeed, reports on remarkable grass-roots struggles in country after country flash before the eager reader like beacons of independent action. As editor Azzellini points out, such independent waves of struggle are all too often unrecognised. Yet they deserve full awareness by those committed to direct democracy and workplace opposition.

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2895
http://www.tribunemagazine.org/2015/09/inspirational-stories-of-workers-struggles-in-the-battle-for-workplace-democracy/

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7. Conferencias (Dangio-Torre)

04. August 2016 | 18:00 La Fabrica del Cioccolato, Cima Norma Sa, Imp. Centr. Dist. Dangio, 6717 Dangio-Torre, CH

Oliver Ressler – Confronting Comfort’s Continent. "Occupy, Resist, Produce" in the foundation La Fabbrica del Cioccolato

Oliver Ressler: born 1970, lives and works in Vienna and produces installations, projects in public space, and films on issues such as economics, democracy, global warming, forms of resistance and social alternatives. Oliver Ressler has had solo exhibitions in major art spaces such as Berkeley Art Museum, USA; Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul; Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid; Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Egypt; The Cube Project Space, Taipei; Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz; and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo – CAAC, Seville.

http://www.azzellini.net/node/2955
http://www.lafabbricadelcioccolato.ch/en/e/oliver-ressler/

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Dario Azzellini www.azzellini.net

Department of Sociology, Politics and Development Research Johannes Kepler Universität (JKU) Linz