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May Day: The Secret Rendezvous with History and the Present

May Day: The Secret Rendezvous with History and the Present

May Day: The Secret Rendezvous with History and the Present

Zuccotti Park Press (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series)
Marina Sitrin & Dario Azzellini

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eighth historical materialism annual conference

eighth historical materialism annual conference

Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle

The ongoing popular uprisings in the Arab world, alongside intimations of a resurgence in workers' struggles against 'austerity' in the North and myriad forms of resistance against exploitation and dispossession across the globe make it imperative for Marxists and leftists to reflect critically on the meaning of
collective anticapitalist action in the present.
Over the past decade, many Marxist concepts and debates have come in from the cold. The anticapitalist movement generated a widely circulating
critique of capitalist modes of international 'development'. More recently, the economic crisis that began in 2008 has led to mainstream-recognition of Marx as an analyst of capital.
The eighth annual Historical Materialism conference will strive to take stock of these shifts in the intellectual landscape of the Left in the context of the
social and political struggles of the present.

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Ours to Master and to Own: Worker Control from the Commune to the Present

Book talk  with Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness

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Comuna under construction in Kraków

Comuna under construction is shown in Kraków/Poland as part of Oliver Ressler's exhibition:

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Comuna under contruction & 5 Factories (DK)

Screening and discussion with the presence of co-director Oliver Ressler

15.00: “Comuna Under Construction”, 94 min., 2010 (with Dario Azzellini).
17.00: “5 Factories–Worker Control in Venezuela”, 81 min., 2006 (with Dario Azzellini).

As part of a wider range of activities, exhibitions and presentations by Oliver Ressler in Copenhagen.

 

Left Forum 2011, March 20, 2011, Pace University, New York

Worker control and factory occupations, global South and North

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Worker control and factory occupations, global South and North
Left Forum 2011, March 20, 2011, Pace University, New York

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Is another world still possible?

Is another world still possible?
Curated by Francesca Guerisoli and Stefano Taccone

Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present

Ours to master and to own

Ours to master and to own

From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and have gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management aimed at controlling production without bosses. Looking at specific examples drawn from every corner of the globe and every period of modern history, this pathbreaking volume comprehensively traces this often under-appreciated historical tradition.

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Comuna under construction (Chicago/USA)

The Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Casa de Arte y Cultura "Calles y Sueños" presents

Comuna under construction (94 min., 2011), a film about local self government in Venezuela by Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler
Followed by discussion in English/Spanish in presence of the co-director Dario Azzellini.

And book presentation "El negocio de la guerra" about Private Military Contractors an paramilitaries around the globe.

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Revolution as Process: The confluence of “top down” and “bottom up” approaches in Bolivarian Venezuela

THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA INVITE THE COMMUNITY TO THE FOLLOWING  EVENT (versión en castellano más abajo)

Revolution as Process:The confluence of “top down” and “bottom up” approaches in Bolivarian Venezuela

by Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini

Comuna under construction, pp. 124-129

Comuna under construction, pp. 124-129

Comuna under construction, by Oliver Ressler & Dario Azzellini, pp. 124-129

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At the Historical Materialism Conference 2010: Workers Self-Management and Alternative Work Organisation

Historical Materialism Annual Conference 2010

"crisis and critique"

soas and ulu, 11-14 november

FRIDAY 12.11.2010, 11.30-13.15, G 50

Workers Self-Management and Alternative Work Organisation I

Chair: Jeffery R. Webber
Sheila Cohen – TBA
Alan Tuckman – Workplace Occupation: Lessons from Britain in the 1970s
Immanuel Ness – Migrant Labourer Direct Action in the US: Workersʼ Control Through Factory Occupations (2005-2010)
Maurizio Atzeni (discussant)

FRIDAY, 12.11.2010, 14.15-16.00, G 51

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Comuna under construction (HMC London)

Screening: Comuna Under Construction

And debate with co-director Dario Azzellini

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Comuna Under Construction (Vancouver)

A screening of a film by Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler about local self-administration in Venezuela. The film follows the developments of community councils in Caracas' poor districts and in the countryside

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Comuna under construction

Film screening as part of the exhibition WHAT IS DEMOCRACY?

24 September - 30 October, 2010

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Comuna under Construction (FIN)

Comuna under Construction and more films by Ressler

Artist talk by O. Ressler on 27.10.10 at 6:30 pm

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Intra-Disciplinary Seminar: Comuna under Construction

Intra-Disciplinary Seminar: Film and discussion with O. Ressler

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Artists' Film Club: Make Film Politically: Comuna under construction

Comuna under Construction, film and discussion, O. Ressler in conversation with Ben Borthwick

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“Kabul, Jenin, Tehran...” (with Comuna under construction)

Recent video work addressing issues of political and documentary representation, often overlooked by mainstream media. Focused on sites of conflict and resistance--the Colombian armed conflict, postwar Afghanistan--as well as the politics of transparency and representation--the Palestinian refuge camp, the Consejo Comunal.

The series includes films by Bodil Furu and Beate Petersen (Norway), Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler (Venezuela/Austria), Reza Haeri (Iran), Carlos Motta (Colombia/U.S.), and the Otolith Group (U.K.).

Ten Years of Transformation in Venezuela

Constituent Power in Motion

Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler at the Nottingham Contemporary

The Geopolitical Turn - Art and the Contest of Globalisation

What are the reference points for contemporary art in a global economy that creates enormous wealth as well as widening inequality. Our opening conference explores the many strategies artists use to reveal the processes and human consequences of the globalised market economy. Introduced by the exhibition’s co-curator T.J. Demos – writer, curator and lecturer at University College, London – the conference includes artists George Osodi, Ursula Biemann, Dario Azzellini, Oliver Ressler and Bureau d’Études.

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Comuna under construction - DMVI Film Festival

DMV International Film Festival presents:

Comuna en construcción / Comuna under construction

25.6.2010,  6:10 pm - 7:44 pm, Goethe Institute, 812, 7th Street, NW, Washington DC

26.6.2010, 10:10 am - 11:44 am, AXUM Lounge, 1346, 9th Street, NW, Washington DC

26.6.2010, 12:35 pm - 2:04 pm, Goethe Institute, 812, 7th Street, NW, Washington DC

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The Geopolitical Turn: Art and the Contest of Globalisation

What are the reference points for contemporary art in a global economy that creates enormous wealth as well as widening inequality. Our opening conference explores the many strategies artists use to reveal the processes and human consequences of the globalised market economy. Introduced by the exhibition’s co-curator T.J. Demos – writer, curator and lecturer at University College, London – the conference includes artists George Osodi, Ursula Biemann, Dario Azzellini, Oliver Ressler and Bureau d’Études.