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Subversive Festival: Balkan Forum – Situations, Struggles, Strategies

Post author By admin
Post date December 8, 2015

THE BALKAN FORUM Situations, Struggles, Strategies (Bijeli val, Zagreb, 2014). Click on image to download .pdf

Note from the LeftEast editors: with the kind permission of the Subversive Festival organizers we publish the .html versions of the Subversive Festival’s outputs “Balkan Forum: Situations, Struggles, Strategies”. A .pdf version can be downloaded by clicking on the image of the book collection here or from the website of the Forum’s principal sponsor, Rosa Luxemburg […]

Tags alternatives, Balkans, capitalism, commons, democracy, Eastern Europe, economic alternatives, institutional struggles, labor, neoliberalism, post-socialism, transition, workers, workers struggles

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The Bio-Financialization of Irish Water: New Advances in the Neoliberalization of Vital Services

Post author By Patrick Bresnihan
Post date September 2, 2015

National Water Protest, Dublin, 2014. Source: Declan Carr

(Source: ENTITLEblog) In their recent article, “Banking Spatially on the Future: Capital Switching, Infrastructure, and the Ecological Fix” (2015), Noel Castree and Brett Christophers make an important analytic connection between the climate crisis and the financial crisis. They focus their attention on the unprecedented scale of capital-intensive infrastructure projects (from housing to road to energy […]

Tags commons, financialization, Ireland, PIIGS, privatization, protest, public-private, self-management, water