Recent French history has shown the contradictions between governmental immigration policies and the increasing mobilisation of foreign workers. They are demanding rights. And are on strike to get them.
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Read the full article »Nancy Fraser, celebrated critical theorist and feminist, discusses about the transnationalisation of the public sphere, radical justice and the crisis and pulling feminism back from neoliberalism.
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A candidate for the next presidency of the European Commission supported by all European socialists? That’s what the PES promised, but the latest European campaign underlined how difficult it is. Audio-interviews with MEPs.
The ‘democratic deficit’ in the European Union is one of the few things that almost everyone knows about it. We have started a campaign for the Parliament to insist that it has the dominant role in deciding the policies of the Union.
A day without foreigners. This may seem a macabre commercial for the xenophobic Italian Northern League party, but it is actually the slogan of the general strike that has been called on 1st March by the migrants’ communities in Italy and France.
The growth of anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe is renationalizing membership politics. Citizenship has historically grown and expanded through the claim-making and the demands of the excluded: the outsider has indeed the potential to expand the formal rights of citizens.
Forget about human rights in the Middle East and forget also about security issues: the reasonable doubts on embracing multiculturalist tenets concerning the French ban on the wearing of full Islamic covering in public spaces are to be traced elsewhere.
Going beyond GDP accounting in Europe should mean to go into a multicriteria assessment of the economy, writes Joan Martinez Alier in his essay for the 2nd Conference on Economic Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity, Barcelona Friday 26 – Monday 29 March 2010
It is time for the EU to move away from its inegalitarian policies towards the countries of the South. A revived European left must come up with a plan for restructuring a profoundly unjust global economic system.
The European rhetoric has flown very high at Copenhagen. Now that an agreement has not been found, will Europe be able to still lead the way and pass from word to fact? Is trade sanctions for polluting goods a solution? Or will we continue hiding behind our weaknesses?
The artistic collective ‘What is to be done?’ (Chto Delat in Russian) is based in St Petersburg. Dmitry Vilensk, member of the collective, muses on the method of the group as a form of dialectic, and as a form of artistic and political engagement.
Arnaud Elfort and Guillaume Schaller from the Survival Group have photographed these spaces that have been built to exclude in the new city. European Alternatives went to ask them about their initiative.