What is the Common? An International Conference

Markus Euskirchen | 18. September 2009 | Filed under: • • • Upcoming Events • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Public Goods | Leave a comment

Gothenburg, Sweden: “The Kurrents‘” program for 2009 is organized under the title “What Is the Common?”. It is again a co-organized event together with invited artists, researchers and internationally leading intellectuals. The intention is to investigate different axes related to the common as both a real force and an idea. As such the common permeates Continue reading →

Neoliberalism in the oceans: ‘‘rationalization,’’ property rights,

Markus Euskirchen | 14. September 2009 | Filed under: • • • Biodiversity/gen.Ressources • Nature Areas | Leave a comment

Neoliberalism, with its emphasis on privatization and marketization, is becoming a dominant mode of ocean governance. In this paper I show that neoliberalism in ocean fisheries has a specific form and history based on the ways that, for the last 50 years, regulation debates have centered on the question of the commons. Focus on the Continue reading →

US Rightwingers against public health care in Great Britain

Markus Euskirchen | 4. September 2009 | Filed under: • Health/Social Issues | Leave a comment

The National Health Service has become the butt of increasingly outlandish political attacks in the US as Republicans and conservative campaigners rail against Britain’s “socialist” system as part of a tussle to defeat Barack Obama’s proposals for broader government involvement in healthcare. Read more

Health and healthcare under capitalism…

Markus Euskirchen | 2. September 2009 | Filed under: • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Health/Social Issues | Leave a comment

is the topic of Socialist Register’s, “the intellectual lodestone for the international Left since 1964″, 2010 volume. More than a dozen articles, see the table of content for more.

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