Judith Butler delivered the 3rd Nicos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture, in Athens.

The event, announced already in newsletter 1, was a great success in terms of the quality of Judith Butler’s lecture, the attendance (hundreds of people, mainly young, crowded the big Goethe Institute Auditorium, its foyer...

People Must Adopt These Issues As Their Own

Emergency climate control and social justice: people must adopt these issues as vital ones. Yet, a few days before the opening of the Copenhagen Summit, the chances of arriving at an agreement on these questions are minimal....

Axes for European Social Forum defined in Diyarbakir and Paris

13 axes of discussion were defined for the European Social Forum - 2010 that will be held in Istanbul (1 to 4 of July), after the meeting of a working group last saturday (November, 21), in Paris, and a previous discussion in the...

(transform.at) Austria’s students’ protests “Our university, our lives!”

For nearly three weeks now students in Austria have been occupying their universities and protesting. Solidarity is strong and protests are spreading and connecting – into and with other countries’ universities and other...

Mesopotamia Social Forum (MSF) in Diyarbakir

Thousands of activists from more than 50 countries participated in the Mesopotamia Social Forum, in Diyarbakir, (southeast Turkey). The struggles against war and neo-liberal policies, the fight for the rights of women, the...