Little over a hundred years ago the word ‘fascism’ was meaningless. Only a few ‘dense’ years later it had graduated into a formidable trope, first in Italy and very soon across an ever-expanding range of countries. Superlatives have accompanied historical accounts of fascism ever since its appearance in crisis-ridden post-WW1 Italy. Surely something as extreme, […]
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The aim of the paper is to reflect on how borders proliferate in everyday life, not only through laws, institutions or policing practices, but also through deeds, words, and feelings. Rather than analyse migration and borders by focusing only on the borderzones, this paper attempts to capture the multiple relations that connect the camp to […]
The world has been undergoing unprecedented transformations over the past two decades. Historical time has accelerated and thickened at the same time as a result of political, social, and economic challenges which led to new configurations of power on the global and local levels. The question “what is to be done?” seems more pressing than […]
“Constitutional developments in Chile” Social movements erupted during the last decades against the cracks of the Chilean model; they have developed and gained experience in the heat of anti-neoliberal and popular struggles. The 2019 social revolt forced the opening of a constitutional process. Social movements decided to get involved in the institutional field with the […]
You can watch the seminar live here. Seraphim Seferiades “Why calling the Far Right (and the Left) ‘populist’ is a bad idea, and why it is done” ‘Concepts’, wrote Cambridge physicist George Thomson (1856-1940), ‘are ideas which receive names. They determine the questions one asks, and the answers one gets’. Scholars create words (conceptualize) to […]
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The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, in collaboration with the Nicos Poulantzas Institute, organized on June 10th & 11th a 2-days information meeting in Athens. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a comprehensive free trade and investment treaty currently being negotiated – in secret – between the European Union and the USA. But why is […]
In 2012 the threat of neo-Nazism in Greece has increased dramatically. With a presence in parliament and public life, his followers are trying in every way to loudly declare their presence at every opportunity and in every area of social life – including, in schools. The seminar on “Coping strategies of neo-Nazism in schools” wants […]
Because of the displacement of the escape routes in the Mediterranean, Greece is currently one of the most important transit countries for migrants and refugees bound for the EU. The number of immigrants and undocumented refugees in Greece is too big. In this exhorted inflammatory statements from the ranks of the neo-fascist party Golden Dawn, […]
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Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Athens Office organizes seminars for the reading of Marx’s Capital. The seminars are addressed to everyone interested to read and thoroughly understand this fundamental task. The process is reading the text and the participants discussion. The seminar management team are Gerasimos Kouzelis, Spyros Lapatsioras, John Milios and Theodoros Paraskevopoulos. In the first […]
