This article argues that labour can be understood as a commons, located in the discussion of how commons can advance the transformation of social relations and society. To manage labour as a commons entails a shift away from the perception of labour power as the object of capital’s value practices, towards a notion of labour power as a collectively and sustainably managed resource for the benefit of society.

NAHIMEN, Teoria eta Estrategia 2016/I

La Autonomía Comunal exige un desarrollo en todos los ámbitos productivos. El pensamiento es uno de esos ámbitos. Sin embargo, las facultades especializadas y los centros de investigación al servicio del Capital y los Estados, lo tienen bajo llave. Nahimen es un proyecto que apuesta por una estrategia de colectivización del pensamiento, por la reapropiación popular autónoma de ese espacio productivo. Nuestra revista quiere ser una herramienta más para ese fin: para contribuir a en que Euskal Herria se llegue a constituir el poder popular autónomo.

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

"In ihrem neuen Buch “They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy” geben Marina Sitrin und Dario Azzellini einen Einblick in die verschiedenen sozialen Bewegungen in Spanien, Griechenland, den USA, Argentinien und Venezuela. Sie zeigen die Gemeinsamkeiten auf und diskutieren die Unterschiede in den Ländern. Was ist von ihnen geblieben? Auch nachdem vieler dieser Bewegungen aus den Medien verschwunden sind, lebt ihr Erbe weiter. Sitrin und Azzellini beschreiben, wie aus ihnen zahlreiche Basisinitiativen entstanden.

Dario Azzellini: Ein Epochenbruch. Die neuen globalen Proteste zwischen Organisation und Bewegung    

English abstract:

How the new global movements are putting forward a radical conception of democracy.

“The movements documented in this volume succeeded in shutting cities down through tremendous shows of force. And when you shut down a city, you can actually stop capital accumulation … Until we start building a truly democratic society, we will continue to see our good ideas co-opted by capital.”

– from the foreword by David Harvey

Here is one of the first books to assert that mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States share an agenda — to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary social change today.

Il carattere peculiare di quello che Hugo Chávez chiamava il processo Bolivariano sta nell’aver capito che la trasformazione sociale può essere costruita nei due sensi, “dall’alto” e “dal basso”.