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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?
How has the COVID-19 pandemic exposed inherent flaws in the capitalist system?
One Question: COVID-19 and Capitalism
One Question is a regular series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question. This time, in the midst of economic and healthcare crises triggered by coronavirus, we ask:
How has the COVID-19 pandemic exposed inherent flaws in the capitalist system?
By Cihan Aksan And Jon Bailes
Dario Azzellini: The COVID-19 pandemic has not only exposed inherent flaws in the capitalist system, it is clearly showing that the question is capitalism or life.
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Global and Transnational Sociology Summer School: New Global Social Movements (Dario Azzellini)
Global and Transnational Sociology Summer School, University Duesburg Essen, Germany
New Global Social Movements: Dario Azzellini (Cornell University)
Online Class: 15.06.-25.06.2020; Mondays - Thursdays, 3 - 7 pm Central European Time
Interview with Dario Azzellini
Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Glen Ford, along with my co-host Nellie Bailey. Coming up: Much of what you read in the corporate media is pure propanganda, a fictionalized account of the world. Margaret Kimberley and other reporters unmasked these lies before a packed crowd in New York City; we’ll get a report on the racial dimensions of the struggle for socialism in Venezuela; and, activists say “F” the police and their brutal presence in the New York subway system. (…)
INTERVIEW
BAR Book Forum: Dario Azzellini’s “Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela”
Millions of Venezuelans are building socialism from below, and most of them are Black, brown and female.
“The mainstream media, and even many people considering themselves leftists, cannot understand why the Maduro government is still in power.”
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Dario Azzellini . Azzellini is a visiting fellow at the Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University. His book is Communes and Workers' Control in Venezuela: Building 21st Century Socialism from Below.
"We, your friends abroad will do whatever it takes to support you with all means and through every diplomatic channel available to us."
Academics for Rojava: "It's about humanity, never give up!”
While the Turkish war of aggression against Rojava and North-East Syria continues, there are protests against it worldwide. Intellectuals and academics speak out and condemn this war and show solidarity with Rojava and Northeast Syria.
In the following, we publish statements of Prof. Noam Chomsky, Prof. Federica Giardini, Dr. Dario Azzellini, Dr. Joost Jongerden, Prof. Kariane Westrheim and Prof. Ueli Mäder who expressed their solidarity.
Prof. Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher and historian, USA:
“Hard to convey how wrenching all of this is.
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“Worker Controlled Companies in Latin America”
LASP Weekly Seminar Series // by Dario Azzellini
Digitalization and marketization in live music
Limits of the platform economy
Online platforms have disrupted parts of the capitalist economy, with allegedly severe consequences in the world of work. This study examines live music in Germany and the UK, where online platforms do not dominate, despite considerable digitalization of market intermediaries. The analysis shows that, as the degree of digitalization increases, matching services tend to work less as a workers representative which is traditionally the case for live music agents and more as a force of marketization that disciplines workers by orchestrating price-based competition.
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The new Radical Urbanisms – a research exchange
The new Radical Urbanisms – a research exchange
Keynotes from:
_ Dario Azzellini, Sociology, Cornell University, USA
_ Brendan Murtagh, Planning, Queens University Belfast, UK
_ Colin Haslam, Management School, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Organised by Peter North and the Power, Space and Cultural Change Research Cluster, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool.
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From Economic Science Fictions to Labour as Commons - Conference
From Economic Science Fictions to Labour as Commons
Alternative Organisations & Transformative Practices (AOTP) Research Cluster Conference
(NB these are working panel titles now, subject to change)
Can the Bolivarian revolution survive the Venezuelan crisis?
Creating the space for and allowing the Bolivarian Revolution to flourish is perhaps the most important achievement of Venezuela’s Chavista government — but can it survive the current crisis?
Interview
Dr. Dario Azzellini: Bridging the gap between academica, activism & filmmaking
“How do you neutralize a revolutionary?... you give him an office with air conditioning.” This was one of several humorous anecdotes that Dr. Azzellini shared with me during our interview. Dr. Azzellini’s eyes twinkled with amusement as he recounted this joke someone once told him. His incisive and dynamic way of thinking and conceptualizing ideas and connections increasingly became evident during our interview.
Why haven’t platforms taken over live music?
The limits of the “platform economy”
It is often assumed that the “platform economy” is in the ascendancy, and is taking over more and more economic sectors. Because of this, much research on the matter has focused on characterising and evaluating this change: what are the relative advantages and disadvantages of this kind of work compared to more “traditional” jobs? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about it? Hence, most current research has looked at the experience of workers in industries which are already highly “platformised” (such as ride sharing, food delivery, or clickwork).
Talk at the Asia-Europe People’s Forum and transform! conference "Our Common Social Future," Barcelona, June 8-10, 2018 - 10 juni 2018
Commons and Conflict
Today, everyone is speaking about commons and ‘commoning’, everyone wants to build commons. The World Bank has a group which is supposedly ‘protecting and improving the global commons’ and it reaches out to the private sector to ‘advance common goods’. You can find texts on commons on the website of the European Union, banks organize seminars on the commons. Transnational companies tell us they are building the commons, big magazines declare that Uber is commoning cars, and that the “sharing economy” is a form of commoning.
Interview with Dario Azzellini
Yes We Can: Worker-Owned Coops
Founded in 1973, (yes, that’s 45 years ago!) the Park Slope Food Coop is one of the oldest and largest consumer food coops in the country. It’s a presence in our lives, the source of our food, and a center for community engagement. And it’s also part of a larger coop movement that stretches back in time and exists in many parts of the world.
