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Just Transitions - a global exploration: Colombia
Professor Vera Trappmann speaks to senior researcher Dario Azzellini about his research on Colombia’s approach to just transition in this latest episode of the “Just transitions – a global exploration” series. Dario gives an overview of Colombia’s holistic and community-driven approach to just transition – where unions, activities and communities push for a post-extractivist future, despite immense risks and structural challenges.
https://soundcloud.com/leedsunibschool/just-transitions-a-global-explora...
This podcast episode was recorded remotely in November 2025.
Thinkers, academics, writers, and artists from the United States, India, Chile, Germany, Catalonia, and Scotland call for solidarity against the attacks on Rojava
International personalities call for solidarity with Rojava: Attacks must be stopped immediately
The latest attacks against Rojava and the Kurds indicate that a new international conspiracy is underway. Organizations such as ISIS, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, and HTS—proxy forces of global capitalism in the Middle East—along with status-quo states, have once again mobilized against the peoples’ struggle for freedom and hope. The on-the-ground organization of the genocidal attack that began after the agreement reached in Paris between the United States, Turkey, Israel, and HTS is being carried out by the Turkish state.
Political Scientist Dario Azzellini on the Attack on Venezuela
“The US Is a Dying Empire”
According to political scientist Dario Azzellini, the US attack on Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro do not merely constitute a violation of international law, but its complete collapse. In an interview with Mašina, Azzellini explains why he sees this event as a symptom of a “dying empire,” and at the same time as a prelude to a new, dangerous phase of global conflict.
Contemporary Communes and Council Democracy in Venezuela
Azzellini, Dario. “Contemporary Communes and Council Democracy in Venezuela.” Kets, Gaard; van de Sande, Mathijs (eds.). Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire. From the Paris Commune to the Present. Advances in Democratic Theory series. London/New York: Routledge. 183-196.
Sustainable work and industrial relations in Europe
Azzellini, Dario; Brandl, Sebastian; Matuschek, Ingo. “Sustainable work and industrial relations in Europe.” Industrielle Beziehungen. 31:1. 85-107.
Santiago de Chile, ILPC 2025 - Keynote Lectures - Matt Huber - Darío Azzellini
Keynote Lecture ILPC 2025 "Putting Work at the centre of the socio-cological transition"
ILPC 2025: Keynote Lectures 3 - Matt Huber - Darío Azzellini 00:00:00 - 00:49:40 Matt Huber, Syracuse University, USA, Proletarian Ecology in an Age of Planetary Production 00:50:00 - 01:43:45 Dario Azzellini, Cornell University, USA, Putting Work at the centre of the socio-cological transition 01:44:00 - 01:59:00 Comments Eric Campos, CUT Chile (Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Chile) 01:59:30 - 02:50:00 Discussion Matt Huber, Dario Azzellini and Eric Campos
When Workers Take Over
Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work
"Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work When Workers Take Over"
By Dario Azzellini and Marcelo Vieta
290 Pages, August 28, 2025 by Routledge (an affordable paperback will follow)
Contemporary Communes and Council Democracy in Latin America
Azzellini, Dario. 2025. “Contemporary Communes and Council Democracy in Latin America.” Socialism and Democracy. DOI: 10.1080/08854300.2024.2435067.
Factory Takeovers in the European Mediterranean Area: Self-Managed Companies in France, Italy and Greece
Azzellini, Dario. 2024. “Factory Takeovers in the European Mediterranean Area: Self-Managed Companies in France, Italy and Greece.” CESCONTEXTO. 36: 38-46.
Interview with Dario Azzellini, 26 min.
Commons and Social Transformation
Theresa Alt asks Dario Azzellini about the concept of commons, economic activity that is neither capitalist nor governmental. The commons existed before capitalism, and capitalism requires enclosure of the commons. Now many see commoning as a way to decommodify some resources. Labor power too could be decommodified. But capital tries to take over more and more.
Berlin, May 2024
Notes from an event with Dario Azzellini and the Initiative for Democratic Labour Time Accounting
We document these notes from a recent discussion event. We appreciate that the international discussion about transition is widening and becoming more concrete. When it comes to the recuperated factories in Argentina it would be good to sharpen the political criteria. Which factories are still engaged in a wider political movement for a general social transformation and why?
Program
3rd Labour Transfer School 2024 - Buggerru, Sardinia, Italy
Looking forward to meer everyone invited and singed up for the Labour Transfer School 2024!
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Workers' struggles and capitalist strategies: Perspectives from Africa and South America in an age of 'sustainability'
Workshop organised by Centre on Labour, Sustainability and Global Production
17 and 18 June 2024 at Queen Mary University of London
Programme
June 17th
10.30 to 13.00: Structures of capital in agriculture, logistics and manufacturing in Africa and South America
15.00 to 17.30: Workers’ creativity, education and the co-production of knowledge of capital
June 18th
10.00 to 13.00: Contours of strategy and struggle from below
14:00: Walking tour by Edward Legon and Jack Sargeant
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Who are the Experts? Co-Research with workers and communities - Masterclass at the CLaSP London
Please join us for a Masterclass on Co-researching methods with workers and communities with Dario Azzellini, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. The masterclass will be held on the 13th of June between 3.00 to 5.00 pm in Queens QB-213, in Mile End Campus, Queen Mary University of London.
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Sustainable Work and Just Transition - Masterclass at the CLaSP London
Please join us for a Masterclass on Sustainable Work and Just Transition with Dario Azzellini, Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. The masterclass will be held on the 11th of June between 3 and 5pm in the Graduate Center building, room GC201, in Mile End Campus.
BERLINER GAZETTE CONFERENCE · WORKSHOP PROJECTS · 1999-2023
Working-Class Environmentalism
BERLINER GAZETTE CONFERENCE · WORKSHOP PROJECTS · 1999-2023
Working-Class Environmentalism
The Toolkit for Sustainable Work
When asked to imagine what sustainable work would look like, people envision different possibilities, as shown by this sample of participants in the Allied Grounds conference.
Video talk based on the article: Optimizing or Abolishing Capitalism? Sustainable Work and Just Transition Rather than Labor Society and Climate Catastrophe
Sustainable Work
Workers of all stripes and their communities potentially have an existential interest in sustainable, non-polluting production. And they are also the ones who will bear the brunt of a social-ecological transformation. Therefore, if workers do not take a central role in defining and practicing the transformation, it will not happen, as the social scientist Dario Azzellini argues in his “Allied Grounds” video talk.
Policies and labour movement actors in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Spain, Poland, Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines
Sustainable Work and Just Transition
Sustainable Work and Just Transition
Policies and labour movement actors in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Spain, Poland, Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines
Dario Azzellini · Lorenzo Feltrin · Brett Neilson · Anna Saave
Politics of Translation: Preparing the Ground for New Alliances
Politics of Translation: Preparing the Ground for New Alliances - 11.10.2023
Dario Azzellini · Lorenzo Feltrin · Brett Neilson · Anna Saave
Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work
This ground-breaking Handbook broadens empirical and theoretical understandings of work, work relations, and workers. It advances a global, intersectional labour studies agenda, laying the foundations for the politically emancipatory project of decolonising the political economy of work.
Sustainable Work and Just Transition Rather than Labor Society and Climate Catastrophe
Optimizing or Abolishing Capitalism?
Optimizing or Abolishing Capitalism? Sustainable Work and Just Transition Rather than Labor Society and Climate Catastrophe
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ALLIED GROUNDS · BG 2023 Project
ALLIED GROUNDS · BG 2023 Project · Text Series, Conference, and More
With annual projects such as “Water Knowledge” (2009), “More World” (2019), and “After Extractivism” (2022), the Berliner Gazette began to explore various questions of political ecology, linking issues of environmental pollution, resource commodification, and climate collapse to the toxically intertwined and mutually fueling economic and ecological crises caused by imperialism and capitalism.
Podcast: All Things Co-op
People Power - Imagining a World without Bosses
In this episode of All Things Co-op, Kevin Gustafson and Cinar Akcin speak with sociologist, political scientist, author and documentary filmmaker Dario Azzellini. They discuss recuperated workplaces—workplaces that have been abandoned by private capitalist owners and taken over by workers and reorganized to be democratically controlled—and why the process of engaging in struggle with fellow workers builds an enduring ecosystem of trust.
Commune socialism: Self-management, popular power and autonomy in Venezuela
Azzellini, Dario. “Commune socialism: self-management, popular power and autonomy in Venezuela.” Veltmeyer, H., & Ezquerro-Cañete, A. (Eds.). (2023). From Extractivism to Sustainability: Scenarios and Lessons from Latin America (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003301981
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation: Conference "Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South"
Video: Panel „Alternative Democracies / Alternatives to Democracy“
Rosa Luxemburgo Stiftung. International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-strategies. Labour policies and worker’s struggles in authoritarian contexts | CAPS22
Panel „Alternative Democracies / Alternatives to Democracy“: the panel was part of the Conference „Contesting Authoritarianism: Perspectives from the South“ that happened in Berlin from 16 - 21 May 2022, with:
Dario Azzellini
Chavismo: Revolutionary Bolivarianism in Venezuela
Azzellini, Dario. 2022. “Chavismo: revolutionary Bolivarianism in Venezuela.” van der Linden, Marcel (Ed.). The Cambridge History of Socialism. A Global History in Three Volumes. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 517-541.
Why platform capitalism is not the future of work
This article examines the assumptions behind the sociology of work and industrial relations literature on online labour-based platforms. This literature has critically examined working conditions and worker resistance in platform work, but it has done so without criticising what we call the ‘metanarrative of the platform economy’.
