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Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers control.

Mike Nagler | 17. February 2012 | Filed under: Political Alternatives • Practical Struggles | Leave a comment

Public Goods become Prey of Mega Foundations and Agribusiness (New Report)

Markus Euskirchen | 24. January 2012 | Filed under: Ernährung • Globale Landwirtschaft • Public Goods • Biodiversity/gen.Ressources | Leave a comment

Big foundations like Gates and giant agribusinesses like Syngenta are taking an interest in multilateral public institutions committed to ending hunger. The international agencies are having trouble with the “public/private” boundaries. Read more

Al Jazeera on Gentrification in Berlin

Franziska Frielinghaus | 3. January 2012 | Filed under: Berlin • Gentrifizierung • Real Estate • Reichland • Labour/Precarity | Leave a comment

Arbeitskampf um Mindestlohn, bezahlte Mehrarbeit, Lohnauszahlung und geregelte Arbeitszeiten sind nur einige Aspekte,
die sich hinter günstigen Hostels, Partymeilen oder gediegenem Hotelflair verbergen. Wer im Tourismusbereich arbeitet, sieht sich einem bunten Blumenstrauß kapitalistischer Arbeitsbedingungen gegenüber. Sebastian Riesner von der Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten (NGG) erläutert die enorme Verschlechterung der Arbeits- und Ausbildungsbedingungen sowie die Forderungen im anstehenden Arbeitskampf. Berlin verändert sich also nicht nur zum Guten, sei es durch miese Arbeitsbedigungen im Tourismusgewerbe oder die Verdrängung durch unbezahlbaren Wohnraum. Das findet auch Aljazeera.

Stefan Merten about “Com’on!”

Markus Euskirchen | 12. December 2011 | Filed under: Berlin • Commons • DIE LINKE • Property • Re-Municipalization • Cooperative Economy • De-Privatization • Public Goods | Leave a comment

Stefan Merten reported to oekonux mailinglist from “Com’on!”:

“Last Saturday I attended the workshop “COM’ ON! – Die alte Eigentumswelt dreht sich”.

The workshop has been organized by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung which
is the foundation of the party “Die Linke” in Germany. “Die Linke” is
the socialist party in Germany. As far as I understood the Keimform
people co-organized this event. Read more

International Workshop on “Free Public and Accessible Transports” in Berlin

Markus Euskirchen | 1. August 2011 | Filed under: Railway • Berlin • DIE LINKE • Infrastructure • Mobility • Mobility | Leave a comment

Free public transport, accessible to everyone, can and will help to overcome social exclusion and resolve social, ecological and global problems in a democratic and sustainable manner. Public transport must be funded fairly based on a spirit of solidarity and that it therefore must be fought for. To achieve this, violence-free radicalism in defending, democratizing and appropriating public goods is indispensable.

Debtocracy

Markus Euskirchen | 21. July 2011 | Filed under: Finanzkrise • Griechenland • Krise • Umverteilung • Finances | Leave a comment

For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. “Debtocracy” seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. The documentary will be distributed free by the end of March without usage rights and broadcasted and subtitled in at least three languages. Read more, download the movie

Sell your islands, you bankrupt Greeks!

Markus Euskirchen | 12. July 2011 | Filed under: Finanzkrise • Griechenland • Finances | Leave a comment

The RLS published a pamphlet on the ongoing Greek debt crisis. Find out more about why it doesn’t help to sell all the islands and read the review of the pamphlet by  TheCurrentMoment.

Who owns the Greek islands?

Markus Euskirchen | 7. July 2011 | Filed under: Banks • Europe • Finanzkrise • Griechenland • Krise • Privatization's Consequences • Finances | Leave a comment

The new smash hit booklet «Sell your islands, you bankrupt Greeks» deals with 20 popular fallacies concerning the debt crisis:

It’s that time again! Greece needs more loans and the governments in Europe are arguing about whether it’s really necessary and who should foot the bill. There is widespread opinion in Germany that Greece itself is to blame for the problems it now finds itself in. It first of all cheated its way into the Eurozone, then the government spent too much and the governed worked too little, many believe. Latently nationalistic patters of interpretation of this kind have been nourished by German politicians and the media, who have no end of proposals for how to «solve» the crisis. For example, the Greeks should save more, work more and sell their public property – and if all of these measures do not help, then Greece will just have to leave the Eurozone or declare itself bankrupt. The stupid thing is, neither are the causes of the crisis that have been named actually correct, nor will the proposed ways out of the crisis achieve their goal.
Read more and get the full text pdf-file

Privatizing Greece

Markus Euskirchen | 9. June 2011 | Filed under: Griechenland • Krise • Privatization • Labour/Precarity • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Distribution of Wealth | Leave a comment

The Question: Is the sale of the Greek family silver a long-term solution? is to be answered: No!
But what else to do? The answer is found around the corner: A wage raise in Germany.

Privatisation and Criminal Justice: Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Markus Euskirchen | 6. June 2011 | Filed under: Gefängnis • Reichland • USA • Distribution of Wealth • Security | Leave a comment

One detail of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case that is reported matter-of-factly actually sounded quite unusual and disturbing to me. As now commonly known, Mr. Strauss-Kahn was released from custody in the notorious Rikers Island prison in New York on bail of $ 1,000,000 (plus $ 5,000,000 in insurance guarantees) and is under house arrest in a Manhattan apartment. So far, so standard procedure. Now awaiting prosecution for attempted rape and six other counts, he may not leave New York and is being guarded 24/7 by a private security company. That’s right, a private security company. And this private security company is not being paid by the city of New York, but by Strauss-Kahn himself. Read more

Community Gardening and Grassroots Politics in the Neoliberal City

Henrik Lebuhn | 11. April 2011 | Filed under: Commons • Ernährung • Municipalities • Agriculture • Cooperative Economy • Debates: Theories/Alternatives • Public Goods • Practical Struggles • Privatization | Leave a comment

When community garden activists of the 1970s and early 1980s clandestinely planted tomatoes, cucumber and sunflowers in abandoned backyards and on run-down lots, they probably never imagined that a time would come when city administrations would embrace urban gardening as an important “cultural, ecological and social resource”.1  Many of today’s community gardens in North America and Europe started out as squats or informal “guerilla style” gardens and were influenced by, if not a substantial part of urban social and environmental movements of the 1960s and 1970s.2  Read more

UniCommon: The rebellion of living knowledge

Markus Euskirchen | 23. March 2011 | Filed under: Education • Practical Struggles | Leave a comment

An extraordinary season of struggle, beyond Uniriot, which has been several things: the will to compose different political cultures, the desire of conflict and the innovation inside and against the university reformed by Bologna Process. The attempt of building up a new experimentation outside of any reassuring identity, but creating a new network able to change and being changed by the richness of discussions and the unquestionable reality of the struggle that cross us. Read more

Pirate Utopias

Markus Euskirchen | 14. March 2011 | Filed under: Property • Piraten • Cooperative Economy • Actors • Practical Struggles | Leave a comment

During the ‘Golden Age’ of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, crews of early proletarian rebels, dropouts from civilization, plundered the lucrative shipping lanes between Europe and America. They operated from land enclaves, free ports; ‘pirate utopias’ located on islands and coastlines as yet beyond the reach of civilization. From these mini-anarchies – ‘temporary autonomous zones’ – they launched raiding parties so successful that they created an imperial crisis, attacking British trade with the colonies, and crippling the emerging system of global exploitation, slavery and colonialism. Read more about “Pirate Utopias: Under the Banner of King Death”.

If It Sounds Too Good…

Markus Euskirchen | 10. March 2011 | Filed under: Infrastructure • PPP • Energy • Disposal/Recycling • PPP | Leave a comment

What You Need to Know, but Don’t, About Privatizing Infrastructure
States and cities are being told that they can fix their budgets and have money left over by leasing their infrastructure for 50, 75 or even 99 years. It sounds great, even miraculous. But we all need to slow down and do our homework, because the rule “If it sounds too good to be true, it is” still applies, and there are good reasons why state and local governments should not want any part of these deals. Read more

Commons and Power

Ann St | 8. March 2011 | Filed under: Commons • General | Leave a comment

At the International Commons Conference November 2010 in Berlin, there was also a workshop on Commoning through the Crisis: creating commons power and resisting enclosures and cooptation: “Power, therefore, is an important analytical tool in understanding social change”. See also in German: Silke Helfrich: Mit Big Society haben Commons nix gemein

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