Journal

Contents

• Essays

• • History and the Critique of Capitalism

  • By Moishe Postone

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• • On the Relationship Between Precariety and State Power

  • By Judith Butler

  • As you will see, I am not offering a theory of state power, but wish to focus on certain dimensions that I hope you will find of interest. Although we usually think of the study of media as separate...

• Porto Alegre: The World Ten Years After

• • Only the Beginning is Always "New"

  • By Walter Baier

  • 10 Years of the World Social Forum

• • The Challenges Before the European Social Forum

  • By Raffaella Bolini

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• • Student Action Helsinki
  • In this article, our aim is to outline how the Opiskelijatoiminta Network (Student Action, henceforward OT) began at the University of Helsinki during the academic year 2008-2009. We hope that this...
• • Ten Years Later: A Short Introduction

  • By Louis Weber

  • The subject of this dossier of Transform! is the alter-globalisation movement. This movement can be considered one of the major political innovations of the late the 20th century. It is within it that...
• • About Good and Bad of Copenhagen

  • By Lothar Bisky

  • In recent months climate policy was on the top of the agenda of international politics. Many international meetings took place in the run-up to the climate summit in Copenhagen. However, despite some...
• • System Change - Not Climate Change

  • Summary

• • New Strategic Orientations for the WSF?*

  • By Christophe Ventura

  • For the 10th anniversary of the World Social Forum (WSF), two encounters were organised in Brazil: the first at Porto Alegre, from January 25 to 29 and the other at Salvado de Bahia, from January 29...
• • The Social Forums and the Left in Latin America

  • By Francisco “Chico” Whitaker Ferreira

  • The question I had been asked by the editors of this publication - “What has been the contribution of the Social Forums to the experiences of the left in Latin America?”- cannot be answered that...
• • The Crisis and the Future of the ESF

  • By Asbjørn Wahl

  • The ESF has experienced many problems over the years, and we should be honest enough to admit that it has been on a downward course ever since the first and most successful one was organised in...
• • Knowledge Is a Common Good

  • By Marco Berlinguer

  • The Effects of the Open Source Movement on the Development of Politics and Society

• Crisis and Capitalism

• • Are We Capable of "Reading" the World as it Really is?

  • By Jacques Fath

  • Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, most of the discussion about the world has been structured by two theses emerging from American neo-conservatism: Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History” and Samuel...
• • Can PIGS Fly?

  • By Haris Golemis

  • ”Thinking again?” the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp little chin....
• • A Waste of Time and Effort? The Need for a Strategic Re-orientation of the Trade Unions

  • By Hans-Jürgen Urban

  • There is no doubt: the trade unions, particularly the German ones, represent reliable supporters of Europe. Although the unions repeatedly emphasise that Europe could be more social, they mostly...
• • Crisis, Europe, Alternatives and Strategic Challenges for the European Left (1)

  • By Elisabeth Gauthier

  • After the EU-summit in March it is becoming even more obvious to what extent the EU and the governments are in quite a dogmatic and irresponsible way setting the course for a downward spiral. Merkel...

• Fact Finding

• • The Social Crisis in Europe: Politics of Precariousness or Shift to a New Social Model of Regulation

  • By Maria Karamessini

  • One year and a half after the outbreak of the current economic recession, generated by the financial crisis that began in the USA a year earlier, all international organisations are announcing the...
• • Electoral Performance of the Left

  • By Barbara Steiner

  • The following information was gathered in the context of a soon-to-be-published critical statistical survey of the results of the 2009 EU Parliamentary Elections....

• Chronicles

• • Quebec Solidarity: An Introduction for Potential Sympathisers in Europe

  • By Simon Tremblay-Pépin

  • When general elections took place on December 8, 2008, Quebec Solidarity saw its first deputy elected to the Quebec National Assembly. This electoral victory demonstrated the relevance of a new...
• • Exploring Left Alternatives for Ending Poverty in the "First World"

  • By Nicolás Muzi

  • Exceeding all expectations, a critical mass of over 50 people (a milieu of left-wing social activists, academics, politicians, radical intellectuals and employees of European Union institutions) met...
• • Regional Elections in France: Victory for the Left

  • By Louis Weber

  • Regional elections, the fifth in a history which only began in 1986, took place in France on March 14th and 21st of this year. What are these elections? Regions have existed since 1972 but only began...
• • Transform! at the LF in New York

  • By Eric Canepa

  • March 19 – 21 at Pace University in New York City saw the 29th annual gathering of the conference first known as the Socialist Scholars Conference (SSC) (1981 – 2004) and then the Left Forum (LF)...