[P2P-F] Fwd: [CommonGood] Report on rome 11-12-3-16 by Birgit Daiber

Fri Mar 18 05:36:14 CET 2016

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From: Schepers, Norbert <schepers at rosalux.de>
Date: Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:54 AM
Subject: [CommonGood] Report on rome 11-12-3-16 by Birgit Daiber
To: Common Good Newsgroup <commongood at listi.jpberlin.de>

Dear friends and colleagues,

the Transform! European Left Foundation organised on March 11 and 12 a
debate on “production and commons” in Rome. In his introduction to the
workshop *Roberto* *Morea* said Commons could become a method/to create an
alternative model to confront capitalism.

*Dario Azzellini *presented a new view on self-managed and companies
recuperated by workers(WRCs): They break with the individualisation and
commodification of labour power by the capitalist mode of production. Dario
says “To manage labour as a commons entails a shift away from the
perception of labour as an individual commodity, towards a new notion of
labour as a collectively and sustainably managed resource, as the human
capacity to create, which is put to use for the benefit of society as a
whole.” (see the attached short conclusion by D.A.) In my reception this is
an essential step forward including WRCs in the diversity of commons
initiatives. Furthermore it could

become the starting point of a closer connection between classical workers
movements and the commons movement.

Underlining this  *Yannis Barkas*  and his friends from the Viome WRC and
*Ilektra* * Bethmouli* from the autonomous clinic, both in Thessaloniki
reported on the development of WRCs and social projects in Greece, where
self-organisation is a simple necessity under the threat of the
EU/IMF-Regime.  *Andres Ruggeri *from the “Programa de Extensiòn Faculta
Abierta” at the University of Buenos Aires  presented the developing sector
of  WRCs in Argentina, which started during the crisis in Argentina in 2001
and are practised actually of about 16 000 people. In these presentations
the specific contribution of WRCs to the diversity of Commons get visible:
first of all they respond to the existential needs of workers not to loose
their jobs and to organise work but they engage in related fields as well
b.e.. in education and they create projects especially in cultural fields.

*Gianni Rinaldini *from the Italian metal-workers-trade-union FIOM was
talking about the history of the cooperative movement in Italy and it’s
enormous relevance for the left affine socio-cultural environment in Italy
– but today finds itself in a defensive position – even in some cases under
accusation of corruption. Gianni wants to promote

the idea of  a radical cooperative movement – but first of all he said
there is a lesson to learn from the traps the old cooperative movements
fell in. In the actual situation of pushing down traditional public
services governments following neo-liberal strategies could use cooperative
movements and commons making the loss of public services passable to the
people – this, he said, is a threat to be opposed.

*Marina Sirin *referred to the development  of commons in North America and
the aspects of “affective politics” in commons movements, especially the
experience how strong we relate in others and the appearance of care, trust
and love.

*Elisabetta Cangelosi  *explained her approach to the definition of commons
and *Francine Mestrum *widened the view on production with regard to social
reproduction. Social commons as democratic, participative and rights-based
version of social protection are to be included into the diversity of
commons perspectives she pointed out.

*Massimo de Angelis *referred to the difference between social revolution
and political revolution Marx made in “Das Kapital” and defined commons as
solidarity work within a process of social revolution – not yet (but
perhaps in future) becoming part of a political revolution.

*Roberto Musacchio *gave a short report on Scuola Altramente in Rome, where
they organise voluntary  work in schools with children and families often
of migrant backgrounds to help them to integrate as an example for the
cooperation between a commons oriented project and public schools.

The two days of discussion took place in “Officine Zero – Roma non si
vende”, an occupied former railway control centre, were cultural events are
organised by young commoners. *Alessandro *from Officine Zero reflected on
the IT-development as a world were a free resource became privatised in a
completely new way, initially without exploiting labour and no input of
great capital. One of the effects of this “post-labour”-world in his regard
is the continuous devaluation of labour. He sees Officine Zero as a place
of commemoration to the old world of labour on the one hand and as protest
against privatisation – another starting point of new thinking beyond the
traditional patterns.

Yes, these were two outstanding interesting days of intense
discussion. *Chantal
Delmas* and * Roberto Morea*, both in charge of the
Transform!-Commons-Network, intend to organise the next seminar in the
later spring in Brussels.

Yours, Birgit

*bir.dai at hotmail.com <bir.dai at hotmail.com>*
*www.birgitdaiber.eu <http://www.birgitdaiber.eu>*
*Fon: 0039-090-9452432 <0039-090-9452432>*
*Mobile: 0039-366-4207762 <0039-366-4207762>*

*Brussels: Rue du Canal 19, B-1000 <1000> Brussels *

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