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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In its Universal Periodic Review, the UN Human Rights Council criticised the policies of the Italian government and the terms of its “security package”.
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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.
Edu-Factory is a collective of about 500 militants, students and researchers proposing the project of a global autonomous university, a process of conflict against the hierarchisation and mechanisms of market-based education systems.
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.
Sandro Mezzadra discusses the transnational experience of contemporary migrations, pointing to the necessity of a new interpretative paradigm in order to photograph the contemporary economic, political, and cultural inderdependences.
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
The limits of GDP are widely recognized. Going beyond mere economic growth represents one of the great political challenges of our times at any territorial level.
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 global summit on climate change was not just an international conference on the world’s precarious environment. It was a catalyst of rivalries and reciprocal accusations, which gave momentum to a renewed synergy between Brazil, South Africa, India and China.
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.
We need new collective symbols for the construction of new ways of being together, finally divorced from ethnic or national representation. Some thoughts about post-national polis with the opportunity of the Polis 21 event in Athens, Belgrade and Zagreb.
A cruise boat filled with Italians is expected to sail from Barcelona to arrive in Genoa the 26th June 2010; a new transnational type of protest against the present political, social and economic conditions in Italy.
In the Catholic Lithuania, from 2004 part of the EU, came into force on first of March a law called “law for the protection of children against the dangerous effects of the Public Information“, which aim to protect children from the view of imagines considered harmful for their complete intellectual and moral growth.
At an event inside the European Parliament hosted by MEP Graham Watson, the Club of Rome – EU Chapter and the Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly, the cornerstones for a possible future global democracy were debated on the occasion of a special screening of the documentary “World Vote Now” by Joel Ben Marsden.
Livorno, Tuscany, 8 am: the day designated for the eviction of the “Roma camp” in Via di Levante, a large piece of land that defines the boundary between a large street and cemetery. The land belongs to a private person who has legitimately asked the police to clear the ground by those unwelcome guests.
The Roma are an integral part of Europe since thousands of years, nowadays a rough estimate of 10-12 million people; the largest ethnic minority present in all 27 states, in many of whom are recorded episodes of major violence and intolerance, which increase day-by-day.
Silvio Berlusconi has expressed his hope to bring Israel into the EU for “the Judeo-Chrisitan culture is the basis for European culture”. If Turkey and Israel become EU members a truly unified foreign policy will remain a dream and Europe will not be able to play an important role in the international scenario.
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