April 26th-28th, 2013, Historical Materialism Conference, New York City 2013
New York University, Silver Center, 31 Washington Place, New York, NY

Sunday, April 28th, 2013, 4pm-6pm, Session 6, panel C
Latin American Social Movements 14 Years Later: Experiences and Perspectives since 1998

Panelists: Marina Sitrin, Dario Azzellini, and Ximena García Bustamante
Chair: Greg Wilpert

'La construcción de un nuevo concepto de poder: “Democracia participativa y protagónica“, refundación republicana y sujeto revolucionario' en el marco del
Congreso Internacional: Venezuela después de Hugo Chávez

'Die Konstruktion eines neuen Machtkonzepts: Wie funktioniert die „Partizipative Demokratie“ gemäß der Verfassung von 1999?' Vortrag im Rahmen des Internationalen Kongresses: Venezuela nach Hugo Chávez

Was wird von Chávez' Erbe bleiben.

"Rights, Solidarity and Justice. Working People Organizing, Past and Present"
LAWCHA (Labor and Working-Class History Association) National Conference, New York City, June 6-8, 2013

Saturday, June 8, 2:15 - 4:00pm

Why organize on a higher level? How to avoid or reduce informal power structures? Who is organizing? What structure is helpful in order to organize beyond certain social strata and age? What have been successes and failures in the organizing process?

Marcus Graetsch and Dario Azzellini have been long time activists in Berlin. They will share their experiences of organization and coordination as local group (FelS, about 80 activists) and as a nation wide coordination structure (the IL with some 800 activists).

Selbstverwaltung und partizipatorische Ökonomie, Referat: Dario Azzellini im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe: Krise und reale Utopien 2.0

Spätestens seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise 2008 ist klar geworden, dass die Verschränkung von Demokratie und Kapitalismus per se nicht zum „Wohle aller“ wirkt, sondern in der real existierenden (Post-)demokratie Experten, Lobby-Gruppen und vor allem Wirtschaftseliten die politischen Prozesse und demokratischen Institutionen zunehmend unterwandern und zu ihren Gunsten gestalten.

*What Next, Venezuela?  A Roundtable Discussion in Real Time*

As President, Hugo Chavez loomed larger than life, stirring hope and
controversy while helping to change the political trajectory of
Venezuela and Latin America. His death raises pressing and difficult
questions: what will become of his political project at home? What are
the prospects for regional integration in his wake? How will the US
respond to a post-Chavez landscape? Participate in a discussion about
these and other questions as we consider what Chavez's death means for

The Committee on Globalization and Social Change Present Public at the CUNY Graduate Center presents:

"Strategies for social change: Movements with, within, against and/or beyond the state?"

With Dario Azzellini (Sociology, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

Historical Materialism 2012
Ninth Annual Conference (8-11 November, SOAS, London)

Weighs Like a Nightmare

Sunday 14.30-16.15  Room: KLT

Grounding the “New” Movements

Chair: Paul Reynolds

David Harvie, Emma Dowling, Keir Milburn, Gareth Brown – Careless Talk: Social Reproduction and Fault-lines of the Crisis in the UK

Massino DeAngelis – How to Change the World? Commons, Movements, and Revolutions

Dario Azzellini – The Community and the Commune