Exhorted by comrades with whom we have shared actions in the last years with precarious and migrants, we contribute here to the debate launched by Communianet.org on the usefulness, topicality and need to refer to the class. Obviously, the aim of this reflection is especially to inquire on and investigate the lexicon with which the movement has related to a …
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Solidarity beyond borders – Building democracy from below
The programs of austerity and privatizations imposed by the Troika decide on the lives of millions of people in Europe. Together with people in Europe and the whole world we resist the rehabilitation of capitalism on the backs of employees as well as unemployed, retirees, migrants and the youth. Together with them we say: “We don’t owe, we won’t pay!” While …
continua a leggereMigrants’ demo in Bologna, 1st of March 2014
Next March 1st we will return to the streets. We do this after the political tragedy of October 3rd 2013, when the death of hundreds of men, women and children in the sea of Lampedusa highlighted the ruthlessness of the European border regime. We do this after the so-called “refugee emergency” which showed that every ‘emergency’ regime is used to …
continua a leggereLampedusa on a charter. An interview with Hagen Kopp
This in an Interview to Hagen Kopp, from No one is illegal in Hanau/Germany, mainly involved in the network activities from Welcome to Europe. Hagen took part to the meeting for the promulgation of the Charter of Lampedusa, which was held in the Mediterranean Island from January the 31st to February the 2nd 2014. We already questioned the political effectiveness of …
continua a leggereDemocracy on the move and the struggles in Europe. A contribution for Blockupy and beyond
The following is a contribution to the political debate on the European movement that starts with Blockupy, but is not just about Blockupy. More or less organized projects (like Blockupy, but also the Hubmeeting) are trying to construct a comprehensive response to processes that extend over the European level, and beyond. The background of these projectualities is inevitably given by …
continua a leggereInfiltrators in the world government of migrations: the refugees’ strike in Israel
The mobilization of migrants in Israel is growing. After three days of general strike launched by the movement, a demonstration is now in front of Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, to ask the Prime Ministry Netanyau and the Interior Ministry Gideon Saar for concrete answers. Mobilization was started by asylum seekers and grew up in the last weeks after the enactment …
continua a leggereFreedom not Frontex. Refugees and Migrants in their Struggle for global Freedom of Movement
by HAGEN KOPP – Kein mensch ist illegal, Hanau* This text is an improvement of an article published in May 2013 in Forum Wissenschat. The reconstruction of some events that took place in the last month and of the campaings aiming to oppose the conditions that produced them, allow point out the immediate political character of migrations. The dreadful number …
continua a leggereThe 31st October UK Universities Strike: within and beyond the question of pay
by GABRIELLA ALBERTI On the 31st October, for the first time in 16 years, academics, administrative staff, cleaners and librarians of British Universities united and joined picket lines at 149 campuses in protest against pay cuts. The three unions who led the strike are the University College Union (UCU) representing academic staff, UNISON, for all clerical staff including administrative personnel …
continua a leggereJust austerity? Europe without principles and the politicization of poverty
In recent years the word poverty has re-entered European political jargon. The main doorway for this has been statistical data. This however does nothing more than reduce the quota of population that earns under a certain level of wage to a merely technical question. The construction of new indicators and new ways of studying and classifying impoverished subjects has changed …
continua a leggereThe shipwrek of hypocrisy: migrants beyond Lampedusa
by COORDINAMENTO MIGRANTI After the carnage which painted black the Mediterranean sea, we spoke about a political carnage. We want to repeat it, after the vulgar spectacle of a moralism which is not only impotent against racism, but also needs racism to exist. Many, both from the institutional left and from the movements, spoke about hypocrisy. The hypocrisy of those who …
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