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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’.
Podcast, 16:48 min
Why the music industry won’t be “Uberized” with Charles Umney and Dario Azzellini
Podcast: Why the music industry won’t be “Uberized” with Charles Umney and Dario Azzellini. Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change, University of Leeds, June 2022, 16:48 min
Dr Charles Umney and Dr Dario Azzellini discuss the limits to the platform economy, and why many occupations are unlikely to be ‘Uberized’, using the live music industry as an example.
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Global and Transnational Sociology Summer School
Block II June 27 - July 07, 2022 (10 - 14 Uhr, 10 am - 2 pm)
Contemporary Global Social Movements
Dario Azzellini, Ph.D.
Course Description
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Class Struggle
Crises under capitalism tend to increase existing inequalities. This is also a consequence of the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global labor income decreased by an estimated 10.7 % (or US$3.5 trillion) in the first nine months of 2020 compared to the previous year. Meanwhile, the total combined wealth of the more than 2,200 official billionaires worldwide grew from $9.5 trillion on December 31, 2019 to an estimated US$11.4 trillion a year later.
Global Dialogue, GD 12.1 - April 2022
Editorial
Universities and science are undergoing far-reaching changes as a result of their marketization or quasi-marketization under neoliberal governance. In this issue of Global Dialogue we take up this topic in our section ‘Talking Sociology.’ Jill Blackmore has been studying the profound restructuring experienced by Australian universities over the last decades. In this interview she elaborates on these restructurings, the forces that drove them, and the effects they have on academic knowledge production and epistemic justice.
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Book launch event: “If Not Us, Who?: Workers worldwide against authoritarianism, fascism and dictatorship”
Launch event – Save the date:
The aim of the launch event is to present the volume and dive deeper into some of the contributions by the authors, but also to take stock of global developments in the aftermath of the book’s release. Speakers will present their chapters, discuss the further evolution of their work, and participate in a Q&A session with the audience.
Venezuela Communes
Dario Azzellini tells Theresa Alt about communes in Venezuela.
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I. International Congress Communal Democracy: "Community, popular power and self-government: practices to transform democracy"
I. International Congress Communal Democracy: "Community, popular power and self-government: practices to transform democracy"
Organized by: Peace with Dignity – Bakea Duintasunarekin / Parte Hartuz of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
In autumn 2021 (October 13-16), the First International Congress on Communal Democracy will be held in the town of Hernani (Basque Country). The aim of the Congress is to address concrete collective ideas and practices that question and seek to transform current models of democracy.
Dario Azzellini
Workers’ Control and Self-Management
43. Workers’ Control and Self-Management
Dario Azzellini
Class Struggle from Above and from Below during the COVID-19 pandemic
Crises under capitalism, as historical analysis proves, tend to entail a transfer of wealth from the poor to the wealthy. Inequalities between poor and wealthy, between people of color and white people, between North and South and between genders are increasing. Most scholars will agree that this is also happening on a global level as a consequence of the handling of the covid-19 pandemic. However, there is a lot of disagreement regarding the evaluation of workers’ resistance.
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DEMOKRATIE HEUTE – PROBLEME DER REPRÄSENTATION
Pierre Bismuth, Claus Föttinger, Julia Lazarus, Erik van Lieshout, Marina Naprushkina, Oliver Ressler, Anja Schrey, Jonas Staal, Joulia Strauss
Assembly RST
Peter Friedl, Dieter Froelich, Bhima Griem, Nadira Husain, Daniel Johnston, Shila Khatami, Anna Meyer, Peter Niemann, Dan Perjovschi, Elizabeth Peyton, Markus Schinwald, Stefanie von Schroeter, Markus Uhr, Silke Wagner, Johannes Wohnseifer, Christine Würmell
Artists from The Hope Project, Moria
According to political scientist and writer Dr. Dario Azzellini, Turkey isolates Abdullah Öcalan to show that it is futile to oppose the power
Dr. Azzellini: "Isolation on Imrali is aimed at silencing the society"
Being of Italian origin, born and raised in Germany, Dr. Dario Azzellini published numerous books and scientific articles on self-government, social movements and the working class.
Dario Azzellini
Venezuela: Revolutionary Bolivarianism Against the Colonial Nation-State
Azzellini, Dario. “Venezuela: Revolutionary Bolivarianism Against the Colonial Nation-State.” Cörüt, Ilker; Jongerden, Joost (Eds.). Beyond Nationalism and the Nation-State. Radical Approaches to Nation. London/New York: Routledge (May 2021). 1st Edition
Dario Azzellini & Nancy Holmstrom
Commons & Public Goods
Organized by The Center for Global Justice
Research/Learning for a Better World & Empowering a Solidarity Economy
Dario Azzellini
Communes in Venezuela in times of crisis
This book explores the battleground between neoliberal capitalist development processes in Latin America and the challenges to these systems that can be found through innovative community-driven buen vivir/vivir bien initiatives.
Global workers against authoritarianism, fascism, and dictatorships
If Not Us, Who?
Encouraging insights in the face of global turmoil: case studies from five continents illustrate the central role of organized workers in struggles against authoritarianism, fascism, and dictatorships.
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Online Diskussion: Socialism in the 21st Century
The Center for Global Justice
Online Diskussion: "Socialism in the 21st Century" / with Dario Azzellini, Michael Lebowitz & Camila Pineiro Harnecker
Monday, August 24, 2020 / 1 pm Central Time Zone (CTZ) / 2 pm Eastern Time Zone (ETZ) / 20:00 Central European Time (CET)
Vídeo - Webinar
Commons as Political Project: Commons and Just Transition in Our Times
Discussion with Hilary Wainright, Judith Dellheim, Dario Azzellini and Birgit Daiber
Vídeo - Webinar
The Commons vs "normality". Global Capitalism, Commodity Chains and Migration after Covid-19
World Social Forum
Webinar hosted by transform! europe
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Webinar: Commons vs. "Normality". Global Capitalism, Commodity Chains and Migration after Covid-19
Commons vs. "Normality". Global Capitalism, Commodity Chains and Migration after Covid-19
8 June 2020 / 15:00 (CET) / Via Zoom
Speakers:
Dario Azzellini, visiting scholar Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University, Ithaca (US), academic and activist. He has published more than 20 books, numerous other writings and 11 documentary films in the areas of critical labour studies and global social change with a special focus on Latin America and Europe.
Interview hit Dario Azzellini
Capitalism’s System Error as “Disaster” and Opportunity for Labor Struggles
Workers’ struggles play a special role during the ‘corona crisis.’ They bring to light that overcoming this crisis will depend on how the systemic errors of capitalism are countered. In this SILENT WORKS Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki ask scholar-activist Dario Azzellini: Will these errors just be corrected or will they provoke fundamental changes?
