global di∫connections

HAGEN KOPP – Kein Mensch ist Illegal, Hanau mit den AktivistInnen von Afrique-Europe-Interact und Welcome to Europe Intro 1 Dieses fragmentarische Tagebuch wurde bereits Ende Januar verfasst, also noch vor der Ermordung des linken Oppositionsführers Chokri Belaïd am 6.2.2013 in Tunis und dem anschließenden Generalstreik sowie Massenprotesten in vielen Städten Tunesiens. Insofern sind die aktuellen Entwicklungen der letzten Wochen hier nicht …

Nobody represents us! They all must go home! This slogan travels through Italy, amplified within the squares of the Movimento 5 Stelle. This movement claims to express the only radical critique of the political system, while it promises to regenerate it with honesty, participation and a quasi-direct democracy which stops at the doors of Parliament. Grillo claims to represent society …

by ISHITA DEY –  Delhi, 29 December 2012 We woke up to the death of the 23 year old student who was gang-raped on a moving bus in Delhi. We are terribly angry, upset and it’s a mixed bag of emotions. It is extremely personal. I feel a terrible sense of loss, fear, and hurt. As my mother puts it, …

by ISHITA DEY – Delhi Delhi – the national capital of India is rocked by protests from student organisations, various groups and individuals pouring in India Gate – a place in close proximity to Rashtrapati Bhavan and other centres of power. People have taken to the streets to protest against the gang rape of a 23 year old student on …

by THOMAS SEIBERT – Interventionistische Linke (… out of the Interventionistische Linke, not for the Interventionistische Linke…) My talk is divided into three parts: first a brief ascertainment of what I consider to be the problem of the EU policies aimed at resolving the crisis. Then a somewhat longer ascertainment of our own problem. In closing, an even longer part in …

THOMAS SEIBERT – Interventionistische Linke (…aus der Interventionistische Linke, nicht für die Interventionistische Linke) Mein Vortrag gliedert sich in drei Teile: Erst eine kurze Bestimmung dessen, was ich für das Problem der Krisenlösungspolitik der EU halte. Dann eine etwas längere Bestimmung unseres eigenen Problems. Schließlich ein noch etwas längerer Teil, in dem ich mich zwei Lösungsvorschlägen nähern will. Ich denke, dass …

by GIORGIO GRAPPI – published in Italian on «il Manifesto», December 13, 2012 We interviewed Pun Ngai, a major scholar of the transformations of labour relationships in contemporary China, in the occasion of the recent translation in Italian of a collection of essays on the struggles of migrant workers in China. Pun Ngai’s studies provides a fundamental view of a …

With a reasoned delay, we publish a small dossier concerning the 14N day of European mobilisation and strike. Beyond this short introductory text, the dossier collect contributions from Greece, Spain and Portugal. We chose not to intervene immediately, insofar as our aim is to discuss critically about what happened, and what was missing, on November 14. On 14th of November …

by CHRISTOS GIOVANOPOULOS – Dikaioma, network of precarious and unemployed workers, Athens The 14N European day of coordinated trade union protests against the austerity measures made headlines in the Greek media and mobilised strongly the Greek police at the day. Their motion to shut down the Syntagma sq. metro station in Athens, for what it proved to be a quite …

by DAVID GARCÍA ARISTEGUI – Solidaridad Obrera, Madrid This 14N was called by the quasi-totality of trade unionism. There might be a different perception by the left from outside Spain, since rather influential media – like Diagonal or Madrilonia – within what we call, to simplify, the 15M movement tried to minimise the trade unions’ role and to aggrandise the …