Regional Integration as an Alternative Strategy?

The Social Forum on Regional Integration From July 21 to 24 a social forum on regional integration took place at Asunción, the capital of Paraguay. It addressed the possibilities of struggling against the free trade policies...

Facing Reality – Strategies to Increase Power from Below in an Era of Neoliberal Globalisation*

Early in the rise of industrial capitalism in the mid-19th century, a set of ideas emerged and came to grip the imagination of the new working class that was being created by industrial capitalism. Those ideas reflected in part...

Economic Democracy: A Crisis Alternative

On June 22, 2009, at the initiative of Espaces Marx (transform!) and the regional government of the Île de France, labour leaders, elected officials, scholars and representatives of civil society met to discuss economic democracy...

The State and the Economic Crisis of 2008

The state in the neoliberal era In the tradition of Foucault, the state is not understood as a rational agent located outside of society, aiming to serve dominant class interests. It is rather a source of power diffused within...

DIY Feminist Networks in Europe

Personal and Collective Acts of Resistance Whether you speak about individual acts of resistance, about organised struggles, about art projects, about self-managed social experiments, even about the invisible day and night...

The Post-Election Uprisings in Iran and the State’s Loss of Legitimacy

It was a restless summer for Iran this year. The controversial results of the June 21 presidential elections engendered such anger that it became impossible for the streets to keep their years-long silence. With the harsh and...

Towards Building a New Left Alternative – The Crisis of the Left and the Case of the Left Alliance in Finland

The European Parliament election results have been disappointing for the left around Europe. One of the countries where the left suffered heavy defeat was Finland. According to the Nice Treaty, the total number of seats for...