Strategic Perspectives of the European Radical Left (2): Meaning, Subjects and Spaces of Transformation

STARTING POINT

 

The second element of the project “Strategic Projects of the European Radical Left” is described as follows:

 

“Rethinking the meaning, the subjects and the spaces of transformation

 

1. The meaning of transformation

 

2. Social and political protagonists in favour of transformation (traditional working-class, precarious workers, unemployed, women, youth, political parties, trade unions, social movements”

 

Deadline for registration:

May, 15th via E-Mail:

office@transform-network.net

 

 

Accomodation: Hotel Desiree and Palazzo Vecchio| Via Fiume, 20, 50123 Florence

Venue: Terra Futura, Fortezza da Basso

transfer from airport by bus to Florence train station SMN ( Santa Maria Novella) 20 min.

 

Agenda

 

Saturday, 29 May

09.30 - 10.00

Welcome and opening

Haris Golemis + transform! Italia

 

10.00 – 11.00

1st Session

“Transformation” as a Concept and the Struggle for Elements of a New Hegemony. Can we sketch elements and structures of a new social block. How does such a block link the social, the political and cultural aspects? What means “Gender-Political Perspective”? How capitalism tries to preserve his hegemony?

Walter Baier

 

11.00 – 14.00

2nd Session

The Future of Work – What it is at stake? Trends in the Material Production, “General Intellect”, Changes in the social structures: questions of employment, precariousness. Labour and the global crisis of the accumulation and regulation model. Old and new conflicts. Problems of the political subjectivity. Possible Coalitions.

Klaus Dörre

Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger

Sergio Bellucci

Alice Mattoni

 

14.00 – 16.30

Lunch

 

 

 

16.30 – 17.30

3rd Session

The Capitalist Economy at the Limits of the Eco-System – On the social content of the ecological question. Can it be formulated as a as a question referring to the concept of relations of production? How is it related to the concept of a new model of development? How can it be integrated in a hegemonic concept?

Elmar Altvater

 

17.30 – 19.00

4th Session

Country Case Studies + The Italian Case

(On the basis of formulated questions)

 

19.30 – 21.00

5th Session

Migration and transformation

Espaces Marx t.b.c.

 

Sunday, 30 May

10.00 - 11.30

5th Session

Perception of the Crisis: What opinion research reveals

Richard Detje

Christoforos Vernardakis

 

11.30 - 13.00

6th Session

 

Paneldiscussion: Facing the existential crisis in Europe, how to conceive the struggle aiming the EU transformation in this context, on the European and the national level ?

Elisabeth Gauthier, Haris Golemis, Kinga Kalocsai, Franco Russo

 

13.30 – 15.00 Conclusion and Outlook