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VIDEO: TalkReal in Madrid: Beyond the Ballot Box

Post author By admin
Post date December 17, 2015

Demonstrators shout slogans as they hold flags, placards and a banner during the "March for Change" planned by left-wing party Podemos that emerged out of the "Indignants" movement, in Madrid on January 31, 2015. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Madrid today in support of a call for change from new anti-austerity party Podemos, a week after Greece elected its ally Syriza. AFP PHOTO/ GERARD JULIEN (Photo credit should read GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty Images)

Note from the LeftEast editors: following the first show of TalkReal on the Greek Crisis, European Aleternatives’ Lorenzo Marsili and the team of TalkReal explore the situation with the upcoming Spanish general elections. Together with ROARmag and OpenDemocracy, LeftEast publishes the talk as a kindred web portal to the TalkReal initiative. From the indignados and 15M to […]

Tags crisis, elections, EUcrisis, European Alternatives, party politics, peripheries, PIIGS, podemos, social movements, Spain, TalkReal

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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