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1. Libros nuevos (inglés, alemán y turco):

"The Class Strikes Back. Self-Organised Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century," BRILL, January 2018

"Vom Protest zum sozialen Prozess. Betriebsbesetzungen und Arbeiten in Selbstverwaltung". VSA: Verlag, eine Flugschrift. Hamburg. März, 2018.

"Bizi Temsil Edemezler! Yunanistan'dan Occupy'a Demokrasinin Yeniden İnşası". Istambul: Amara Yayıncılık, 2018.

2. Artículos académicos: Ensayos en libros y revistas (Castellano e inglés)

3. Audios/Videos: "Occupy, Resist, Produce - Scop Ti" (Inglés)

4. Entrevistas y artículos periodísticos (Inglés)

5. Reseñas (Castellano, Inglés)

6. Eventos (Ithaca, NY; Canterbury, England; Mannheim, DE)

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Hola! Épale!

Ya está listo el documental "Ocupar, resistir, producir - Scop Ti". El cuarto documental del la serie que estoy produciendo junto a Oliver Ressler sobre empresas recuperadas en Europa. (veáse punto 3) Por ahora tendrá subtítulos en inglés e aleman. Si están interesados en una presentación o en producir subtítulos en otro idioma, contactenme.

Hay varias presentaciones programadas. Además los cuatro documentales juntos son parte de de dos exposiciones. (veáse eventos)

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Aconsejo uno entrevista bien larga que me hicieron para la revista académica “Diferencia(s)": La guerra ha llegado a ser la forma de hacer economía y no la interrupción de la economía”. Darío De Benedetti. Diferencia(s). Revista de teoría social contemporánea, Vol. 1, No. 6 (2018). P. 113-130. (véase 2)

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En diciembre la editorial Haymarket publicará la edición en tapa blanda (y mucho más barata) de "The class strikes back" sobre luchas obreras autoorganizadas en cinco continentes. (veáse punto 1)

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Y en Alemania se publicó un libro sobre empresas recuperadas y autogestión en la editorial VSA (véase punto 1)

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Además muchos artículos y capítulos en libros...

Saludos,

Dario Azzellini

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1. Libros nuevos (Castellano, turco, inglés y alemán):

Dario Azzellini and Michael G. Kraft (Eds.): The Class Strikes Back. Self-Organised Workers`Struggles in the Twenty-First Century. BRILL, January 2018. Serie: Historical Materialism Book Series, volume 150. Pages, Illust.:xii, 321pp. 

In October 2018 an affordable paperback edition will be published by Haymarket!

"The Class Strikes Back" examines a number of radical, twenty-first-century workers` struggles. These struggles are characterised by a different kind of unionism and solidarity, arising out of new kinds of labour conditions and responsive to new kinds of social economic marginalisation. The essays in the collection demonstrate the dramatic growth of syndicalist and autonomist formations and argue for their historical necessity. They show how workers seek to form and join democratic and independent unions that are fundamentally opposed to bureaucratic leadership, compromise, and concessions. Specific case studies dealing with both the Global South and Global North assess the context of local histories and the spatially and temporally located balance of power, while embedding the struggle in a broader picture of resistance and the fight for emancipation.

http://www.brill.com/products/book/class-strikes-back

http://www.azzellini.net/en/buecher-von-dario-azzellini/class-strikes-back

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Dario Azzellini: Vom Protest zum sozialen Prozess. Betriebsbesetzungen und Arbeiten in Selbstverwaltung. VSA-Verlag, eine Flugschrift. Hamburg. März 2018. EUR 12.80

 

2. Artículos académicos: Ensayos en libros y revistas (castellano e inglés)

“La guerra ha llegado a ser la forma de hacer economía y no la interrupción de la economía”. Diferencia(s). Revista de teoría social contemporánea. Darío De Benedetti. Vol. 1, No. 6 (2018). P. 113-130.

„Quisiera comenzar la entrevista con algunas referencias relativas a su formación y a su trayectoria intelectual. (…) estudiando Colombia y el narcotráfico llegué a analizar el narcotráfico como un modelo posfordista de producción y comercialización. Es decir, con todos los elementos que tiene el posfordismo del just in time: la externalización, la fragmentación de las cadenas productivas, etc. De ahí empecé a estudiar más todo ese proceso posfordista en la economía legal, y de ahí otra vez regresé a los cambios en la conducción de guerra, como también un desarrollo posfordista neoliberal, que implica cambios sustanciales sobre cómo hay que entender la guerra y de cómo funciona."

http://www.azzellini.net/node/3106

http://www.revista.diferencias.com.ar/index.php/diferencias/article/view...

Dario Azzellini (2018): "The Legacy of Workers’ Councils in Contemporary Social Movements." In: Muldoon, James (ed.): Council Democracy. Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics. Routledge. 228-248. Hardback: 258 pages

"The return to public assemblies and direct democratic methods in the wave of the global "squares movements" since 2011 has rejuvenated interest in forms of council organisation and action. The European council movements, which developed in the immediate post-First World War era, were the most impressive of a number of attempts to develop workers’ councils throughout the twentieth century. However, in spite of the recent challenges to liberal democracy, the question of council democracy has so far been neglected within democratic theory. This book seeks to interrogate contemporary democratic institutions from the perspective of the resources that can be drawn from a revival and re-evaluation of the forgotten ideal of council democracy.“

http://www.azzellini.net/node/3093

https://www.routledge.com/Council-Democracy-Towards-a-Democratic-Sociali...

Dario Azzellini: Book Review: Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City by Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay.  ILR Review, Vol 71, Issue 4, pp. 943 - 945, First Published July 17, 2018

The book offers interesting insight into the everyday life of undocumented migrants without portraying them as helpless victims. Ample quotations from the interviews underline their agency and the complex and contradictory conditions they experience in the ethnic enclaves they are forced to rely on. Bloch and McKay shed light on the circumstances, motivations, and conditions of ethnic enclave employers, who, in most of the literature on undocumented migration, are not a subject of research. This approach helps overcome simplistic accounts that portray those employers merely as ruthless exploiters who take advantage of the undocumented, as it brings to light a wide range of motives and contradictions they face themselves, while it does not deny that the undocumented are usually underpaid, work overtime in precarious conditions, and have practically no labor rights ...

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0019793918775716

http://www.azzellini.net/articles

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Dario Azzellini: "The Commune in Venezuela: A Utopian Prefiguration". In: Latin American Utopias: Past and Present. Edited by Juan Pro. Sussex Academic Press. 235-261.

"In an age in which fears about the future predominate (in the form of dystopias, ecological catastrophes and terrifying Sci-Fi scenarios), utopia is reappearing as the bearer of hope for the fate of humanity. Latin America has historically been a fertile ground where utopian projects, movements and experiments could take root and thrive, and this constitutes one of the region's major contributions to world history."

http://www.sussex-academic.com/sa/titles/latin_american_studies/pro.htm

Archivo pdf disponible con índice e introducción del libro: https://utopia.hypotheses.org/1027 

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3. Audios/Videos (Inglés)

"Occupy, Resist, Produce - Scop Ti"  / A film by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler. 34 min. / English.

Scop Ti is located in the small town Gémenos near Marseille, in Southern France. The plant belonged to Lipton (Unilever) and produced herbal and fruit teas and the 120-year-old local French black tea brand Thé de l’Éléphant. In September 2010 Unilever decided to relocate production and machines to Poland, closed the plant and left 182 workers without their jobs. The workers immediately occupied their workplace, supported by the union CGT. Initially all 182 workers participated in the occupation; after three years 76 were still active. They demanded from Unilever to get the factory, the machines and the brand name Thé de l’Éléphant. They planned to build a cooperative, switch production to natural and organic herbal teas using mainly regional products. 

Seguir leyendo: http://www.azzellini.net/node/3096

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Dario Azzellini at the Asia Europe People's Forum. "The case for commons and social commons". Barcelona, June 2018

Practical implications of adopting a commoning approach to social protection – options for activism and policy development

What are commons? Who can develop commons? Is commoning based on harmony? Building and preserving commons is a struggle against capital and its history of preying on the commons. Nevertheless, not all commons are automatically anticapitalist, some are also functional to capital. Moreover it is important to also rethink reproduction. The commons cannot be based on gendered labour division...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mujmRXO1MNQ

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4. Entrevistas y artículos periodísticos (Inglés)

"Yes We Can: Worker-Owned Coops" / Linewaiters' Gazette, Vol. MM, No. 22, November 8, 2018. 4-5/ By Alison Rose Levy.

"Although not always designated by the term coop, “cooperation is anthropologically embedded in human beings. Cooperatives go back thousands of years. We wouldn’t have developed without them,” says Azzellini. Over the course of human history, “if humans had used today’s business norms and laws we wouldn’t have evolved beyond the state of Neanderthals. Humankind thrived because of cooperation,” he says. Azzellini points to numerous examples throughout human history—beginning with antique Greek mills and on through medieval times, when serfs and workers began “building networks of cooperation to resist the power of rich, commercial business and enterprises”.  

https://www.foodcoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/lwg_2018_11_08_vMM_n...

http://www.azzellini.net/node/3110

"What does class struggle mean today?" / One Question in State of Nature Blog, 30th October 2018 / Interviewers: Cihan Aksan And Jon Bailes

Dario Azzellini: "Class struggle, that is, the struggle between labour and capital, is not at all a concept that belongs to the past. In a world of growing inequality, it is a reality more pertinent than ever. A recent study has revealed that since 2008 the wealth of the richest 1% has been growing at an average of 6% a year, while the wealth of the remaining 99% of the world’s population has been growing by only 3%. By 2030, the world’s richest 1% will control nearly two-thirds of the world’s wealth."

http://stateofnatureblog.com/one-question-class-struggle-today/

http://www.azzellini.net/node/3109

With responses from: Dario Azzellini; Cinzia Arruzza; Jeffery R Webber; Adam Hanieh; Shahrzad Mojab; Guilherme Leite Gonçalves; Immanuel Ness; Demet Şahende Dinler; Cenk Saraçoğlu; Justin Akers Chacón; María Pía Lara; Terrell Carver; Charles Umney; Raju J Das.

 

5. Reseñas (alemán, inglés)

"Vom Protest zum sozialen Prozess", Dario Azzellini (2018). Keimform.de / August 2018 / Manuel

In seiner Dissertation über Venezuela untersuchte Dario Azzellini die soziale Transformation und die kommunalen Räte im Spannungsfeld zwischen Selbstorganisation und Staat. Nun hat er sich dem internationalen Phänomen der “Rückeroberten Betriebe unter Arbeiter*innenkontrolle” (RBA) zugewandt. Die Leitfrage der Flugschrift lautet: “Ist es möglich, im Kapitalismus ‘anders’ zu arbeiten und damit die Perspektive einer demokratischen und solidarischen Gesellschaft jenseits des Kapitalismus aufzuzeigen und zu eröffnen?” (7)

Um dem nachzugehen hat Azzellini Feldforschung in dutzenden RBA weltweit betrieben. Anschaulich werden verschiedene Erfahrungen in Europa, im Mittelmeerraum, den USA und in Lateinamerika beschrieben, um daraus anschließend Gemeinsamkeiten abzuleiten.

Weiterlesen: 

http://www.azzellini.net/buecher-von-dario-azzellini/vom-protest-zum-soz...

http://keimform.de/2018/rezension-vom-protest-zum-sozialen-prozess/

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"The Class Strikes Back. Self-Organised Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century" Dario Azzellini (2018). The Working Class Strikes Back in The Age of Neoliberal Crisis / GlobalResearch / August 2018 / Chris C. Wright

Reading the daily headlines, it’s easy to forget that the corollary of a civilization in precipitous decline is a world of creative ferment, a new world struggling to be born. If you could have a God’s-eye view of all the creative resistance rending the fabric of political oppression from the U.S. to Indonesia to Colombia, you would surely be persuaded that all hope is not lost. This conclusion is borne out in detail by a book published earlier this year, The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organised Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Dario Azzellini and Michael G. Kraft. The chapters, each dedicated to a different case-study, survey inspiring democratic activism in thirteen countries across five continents. The reader is left with the impression that the global working class, while facing an uphill battle in its fight against imperialism, business and state repression, and conservative union bureaucracy, may yet triumph in the end, if only because of its remarkable perseverance generation after generation. Its overwhelming numerical strength, too, bodes well.

Continue reading: 

http://www.azzellini.net/node/3012

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-working-class-strikes-back-in-the-age-...

https://libcom.org/library/working-class-strikes-back

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6. Eventos (Ithaca, NY, USA; Canterbury, England; Mannheim, DE)

Documentary Screening & Discussion: "Occupy, Resist, Produce - Scop Ti"

13 Nov 2018, at 4:30pm to 6:00 pm 

In “Occupy, Resist, Produce – Scop Ti”  (A film by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler) the workers tell the story of their collective struggle and speak about their democratic organization of work. They describe the difficulties and contradictions of trying to keep up a huge industrial production and sticking at the same time to their values and principles based on solidarity, natural flavors and organic production and the collaboration with local and regional producers.

The film is the fourth in a series of short films on occupations of workplaces and production under workers' control in Europe, “Occupy, Resist, Produce”, the filmmakers launched in 2014.

Ives Hall, 115 / Cornell University / B07 Tower Rd, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

http://events.cornell.edu/event/documentary_screening_discussion_occupy_...

http://www.azzellini.net/node/3108

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„Occupy, Resist, Produce“ / Solo exhibition of Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini

Herbert Read Gallery, Wednesday 21 November 2018 - Friday 14 December 2018

"The title of Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini’s solo exhibition “Occupy, Resist, Produce” refers to a four-channel video installation with the same title consisting of four films produced during 2014 – 2018 in occupied factories in Milan, Rome, Thessaloniki and Gémenos (near Marseille). In these cases, the workers were successful in bringing the labour under their control. Each film is based around conversations between workers. The workers' meetings or assemblies where decisions were made were also recorded. More particularly, the sites include the ‘open factory’ RiMaflow in Milan, the reuse and recycling centre Officine Zero in Rome, the organic cleaning products factory Vio.Me. in Thessaloniki, and the tea packing plant Scop Ti in Gémenos. For the future, it is planned to produce further films on occupied factories and to expand the video installation as the struggle of workers continues."

Herbert Read Gallery, UCA Canterbury, New Dover Road, Canterbury, Kent CT1 3AN. England

https://www.uca.ac.uk/galleries/gallery-events/occupy-resist-produce/

http://www.azzellini.net/node/3107

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„Occupy, Resist, Produce“ / A 4-channel video installation by Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler. 131 min. (combined) 2014 – 2018 (RiMaflow, Officine Zero, Vio.Me. und Scop Ti)

Kunsthalle Mannheim, 12 Oct. 2018 - 03 Feb 2019

Within the framework of the exhibition „CONSTRUCTING THE WORLD: ART AND ECONOMY 1919-1939 AND 2008-2018: … this topical exhibition is the first to illustrate the economy’s dramatic influence on art and to make global comparisons, demonstrating these in an analysis of two separate eras“ (…) 

„The economic crisis that began in 2007-8 led to layoffs on a massive scale, leaving thousands of newly unemployed workers with little hope of another job. Their response put workers’ control back on the agenda in Europe. For many years beforehand, factories had been occupied and recuperated almost exclusively in Latin America."

https://www.kuma.art/en/constructing-world-art-and-economy-1919-1939-and...

http://www.azzellini.net/node/3105

 

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Dario Azzellini

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