Rosa Luxemburg – Zur Aktualität ihres Denkens und Wirkens

Anlässlich des 150. Geburtstages von Rosa Luxemburg ihres Lebens und Wirkens zu gedenken, kann bedeuten, sich die Vielfalt ihres kurzen, durch Mord beendeten Lebens zu vergegenwärtigen. Dies wollen wir tun, wenn wieder Veranstaltungen in vollen Sälen möglich sein werden. In der hier angekündigten Veranstaltung geht es um die Frage nach der Aktualität ihres Denkens und […]

Beyond defeat and austerity? Social movements and labour struggles in the European Union

What power relations, constraints and openings characterize the EU as a terrain of struggle for social movements and labour? How have labour and social movements shaped the process of European integration? Which repertoires of action have proven successful and why? Discussants: David Bailey, Bernd Bonfert, Mònica Clua-Losada & Olatz Ribera Almandoz

Challenging Tech: International Perspectives on Organizing

#1 Challenging Tech: International Perspectives on Organizing – May 1st, 6pm GMT/ 7pm CEST In recent years, tech worker organizing has become prominent, most recently through the foundation of the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU) at Google. This new kind of labor movement has led to new types of activism and political demands in the tech […]

Coalitions between Tech and Gig Workers: Antagonists, Accomplices, Comrades?

#2 Coalitions between Tech and Gig Workers: Antagonists, Accomplices, Comrades? – May 18th, 6pm GMT/ 7pm CEST A decade after the dispersion of ‘gig work’ companies around the world, many of their workers have organized protests, strikes and legal action. More recently, employed tech workers have also organized together. This development raises questions about possible […]

Neo-liberalization and Right-Wing Nationalism: Critical Perspectives from India

Introduction: For last several months, India has seen huge farmers’ uprisings that not only challenge the Hindu nationalist government, but also the on-going process of neo-liberalization that has especially picked pace under the present ruling government. This rise of nationalism and neo-liberalization has meant persecution of minorities, an increased precarity of the general masses and […]

Whose City? Urban Struggles in the Age of Gentrification

Critical Theory in Context LIVE with Lisa Vollmer, Mustafa Dikeç, Christian Volk and Robin Celikates Gentrification and neoliberalization have shaped the cities we live in but also given rise to urban struggles, from uprisings to social movements advocating for rent control and tenants‘ rights. What are the dynamics shaping the city as both a field […]

HUCH#91 Release – Podium mit Hengameh Yaghoobifarah und Bafta Sarbo

Für die HUch#91 hatten wir uns eigentlich eine theoretische Streitschlichtung ausgemalt: Der ewige Zwist zwischen Identitäts- und Klassenpolitik sollte anhand von verschiedenen Texten in Frage gestellt, der Lagerkampf zwischen Materialismus und Poststrukturalismus sollte als nicht zielführend entlarvt und damit ein wenig aufgehoben werden. Doch Corona und der ganz normale Wahnsinn kamen dazwischen und so ist […]