Originally published by The Word From Struggle Street Blog on the continuing debate around Plan C’s Social Strike and Directional Demands article.
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Kurdistan, Social Strike, Strike
Austerity is now the new normality in Europe. In these years monetary policies have been used to enforce neo-liberal labour reforms, privatization of the commons, cuts in welfare benefits and less civil rights. European governments and financial institutions use debt and technical parameters as a political tool to play workers and populations against each other, as the blackmail against Greece has shown.
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Strike
For the last five years, Greece has been subject to a series of harsh austerity measures imposed by the Troika (the IMF, ECB, and European Commission) in exchange for loans that, in many cases, have been used for little more than repaying existing loans. These austerity measures follow the tried-and-tested neoliberal readjustment programmes we’ve seen
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Inter/Transnational
Article written by Jerome Roos for ROAR magazine Whatever the outcome of the referendum, tough times are ahead. To survive, Greek society will need to reinvigorate the commons and communal solidarity. Image: A solidarity kitchen in Greece. The poster in the back reads “Free Food for All” (by Marko Djurika). As the Greek debt crisis enters
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Commons, Social Reproduction