[P2P-F] Socialisation and Commons in Europe

[Kevin Flanagan]

Socialisation and Commons in Europe

( Source :
http://www.transform-network.net/publications/publications-2016/news/detail/Publications/socialisation-and-commons-in-europe.html
)

We present our first transform! eBook, which deals with the promising topic
of the Commons. It is a reiteration of the essential discussions held
during a European seminar in Paris in November 2014. You can download the
eBook in EPUB (for eBook readers) and PDF format (for printing and
everything else) on the right.

The seminar was organised by transform!, the Association pour
l’Autogestion, the Workers’ Control Network, Espaces Marx, Fondation
Copernic, and Omos under the theme Socialisation and Commons in Europe: How
to Construct an Alternative Project. It brought together around 50 actors
and researchers from the social and political movement from nine different
countries. Among other things, its aim was to bring into the dialogue
different experiences of the commons, cooperatives and public services and
start creating a coherent narrative in order to decipher what these
different experiences can contribute to constructing an alternative project.

A number of issues were debated:

What relations need to exist between the struggles and the institutions to
make these new experiences permanent?
What can we change here and now by using what already exists?
What is the public-private link and how does it relate to the commons?
Do state-owned entities currently act in the interests of the people or of
money?
How does the state relate to constructing commons based on its politics?
Commons institutions do not exist; the right of ownership alone is legally
valid in our society. How can we change this situation that is paralysing
the dynamism, actions and creations of the peoples involved in struggles?

Through this eBook, we will try to answer some of these questions by
sharing and analysing concrete experiences and will then look at the
initial reflections of the researchers on these issues.

This eBook is the first in a series on this issue, in which transform!
europe will look in greater depth at the challenges for an alternative
project – through European seminars and world social forums, as it is
closely involved with the networks addressing these issues.

http://www.transform-network.net/uploads/tx_news/Socialisation_and_Commons_in_Europe.epub

http://www.transform-network.net/uploads/tx_news/Socialisation_and_Commons_in_Europe.pdf

Table of Contents

Chantal Delmas: Introduction – Socialisation and Commons in Europe:
Constructing an Alternative Project

Roberto Musacchio: Cooperativism and Self-management in Italy

Theodoros Karyotis: Self-management as an antagonistic force:
 Commons-based responses to the Greek structural adjustment

Peter North: Contemporary commoning: A diverse economies perspective

Gigi Malabarba: The Story of RiMaflow: A factory reclaimed by its workers
in Milan

Alan Tuckman: The NHS in the UK: The Struggle over Health in Common

Marina Sitrin: The Self-Organizational Seeds Planted by the Occupy Movement

Catherine Samary: Stuck in the past?

Elisabetta Cangelosi: To Begin With, an Initial Attempt at Defining the
Commons

Christian Laval: What is the Principle of the Common?

Dario Azzellini: Privatisation, public and commons

Alfonso Gianni: Mutualism Between Tradition and Modernity

Pablo Sanchez: Public services in the age of austerity

Ugo Mattei: First Thoughts for a Phenomenology of the Commons

Marie-Christine Vergiat: Towards new ways of collective appropriation

Benoît Borrits: Co-operative ownership and Common

Pierre Dardot: Self-management, Social Reappropriation and the Commons

Francine Mestrum: Social Protection: It’s up to Us!  Redefining Social
Protection through ‘Social Commons’

Benoît Borrits & Chantal Delmas: A Political Vision for the Commons



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