Greek hospital now under workers’ control
Posted: February 6, 2012 Filed under: Labour, Politics, Welfare & Social Security | Tags: kilkis hospital 4 Comments »
Submitted for publication by working class self organisation at libcom.org on Feb 5 2012 19:20
Health workers in Kilkis, Greece, have occupied their local hospital and have issued a statement saying it is now fully under workers control.
The general hospital of Kilkis in Greece is now under workers control. The workers at the hospital have declared that the long-lasting problems of the National Health System (ESY) cannot be resolved.
The workers have responded to the regime’s acceleration of fascism by occupying the hospital and outing it under direct and complete control by the workers. All decisions will be made by a ‘workers general assembly’. Read the rest of this entry »
The euro or the drachma?
Posted: January 13, 2012 Filed under: Economy, Labour, Politics | Tags: drachma 1 Comment »By Antonis Davanellos*
Originally published at the Socialist Worker
The devastating debt crisis in Greece is raising a new question: What if Greece has to abandon the euro as its currency, in spite of the financial bailouts carried out by the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund–known collectively as the “troika.” What would a return to the drachma mean for the people of Greece who have endured harsh austerity as a cost of the troika’s “rescues.”
THE EXPERIENCE of two years under the financial supervision of “the troika” and of consecutive and severe austerity programs has led to a meltdown of illusions about “Europeanism.” Ten years ago, under the influence of arguments made by both the right-wing New Democracy and the center-left PASOK, a wide consensus emerged in Greek society about the country’s relationship to Europe. Read the rest of this entry »
Marx Enters the Matrix
Posted: May 26, 2011 Filed under: International, Labour, Politics, Society | Tags: Interview Leave a comment »by Jason Barker, Nemanja Korsic New Left Project.org
Marx Reloaded is the Arte culture documentary that mixes serious interviews with some of Europe’s most renowned leftist thinkers with coquettish animation featuring Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky. Among those ruminating on the state of capitalism in the midst of ongoing global recession are John Gray, Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, Jacques Rancière, Nina Power, Alberto Toscano and Slavoj Žižek. There’s even an appearance by the controversial German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk.
The following interview took place on 20 April 2011 at the Moskva Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia.
Nemanja Korsic: TV documentaries about Karl Marx are not so common. Was it difficult to get Marx Reloaded commissioned, especially given its political subject-matter?
Jason Barker: Marx Reloaded didn’t begin life as a TV documentary. Originally the idea was to do something much more experimental for the cinema. That seemed like the obvious home for Marx. The idea was to make a fully animated feature documentary, based on Marx’s letters, but with a lot of fictional elements thrown in. Something in the mould of Waltz with Bashir. That’s still my ambition. But gradually it became clear that the type of budget needed for that was going to take years to track down. There’s very little money in documentary film-making and that this was an animated film, and a film based around Karl Marx’s ideas, only added to the “ambitious” nature of it. Read the rest of this entry »
