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Articles
TNI at the Alter Summit
The Alter Summit is taking place one week after the big mobilization against the Troika in 100 European cities and the blockade of the ECB led Blockupy.
The Great European Fire Sale
A visual overview of privatisation of public services and assets enforced on crisis countries by the European Commission and European Central Bank. And the popular resistance movements to defend public services that have emerged as a result.
Towards A ‘21st Century Socialism’
He was called a "socialist showman" and "elected autocrat", derided as a blind hater of the United States, and ridiculed as a demagogue who splurged his country's great oil wealth on ill-conceived populist schemes, distributed largesse to undeserving regimes in the neighbourhood, ran the nation's economy into the ground, and sharply polarised its society.
Publications
Participatory alternatives to privatisation
Experience worldwide shows that EC-imposed privatisation on crisis countries will not work. The alternative is not reinforcing the status quo, but using citizen power and labour to reinvigorate public services and democratically transform the state.
Something rotten in the ANC state
The palaces of President Zuma and the massacre of miners at Marikana symbolise how the gulf between rich and poor has grown in the 18 years since the African National Congress came to power in South Africa. Hilary Wainwright reports on how formerly loyal ANC activists are turning against their government
Transformative Power: Political organisation in transition
Does the experience of Greek left party Syriza provide lessons on how to structure parties and state in order in challenge neoliberal austerity and provide lasting social transformation?
Events
June 2013
Transforming Activisms 2010+
The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) is inviting for a presentation and public debate on the new Development and Change Forum 2013, with its theme ‘Transforming Activisms’. With David Sogge and Kees Biekart from TNI.
May 2013
Rethinking labour in an age of networks and movements
Networked Labour seminar is supported by Networked Politics, Transform! Europe, Transnational Institute and IGOPNet. The overall focus will be on the impact of the internet and informatics on labour, value creation, and production processes and emerging radical communities as new or renewed political agency.
News
The Road to the Alter Summit
5 June 2013
Susan George speaking in short documentary film about the Alter Summit
Mirjam van Reisen benoemd tot nieuw bestuurslid Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV)
3 May 2013
Net voor haar abdicatie heeft Koningin Beatrix Prof. Dr. Mirjam van Reisen beëdigd als bestuurslid Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV) en daarbinnen voorzitter Commissie Ontwikkelingssamenwerking; het instituut dat de regering en de Staten-Generaal adviseert over het buitenlandse beleid.
South Africa: The Great South African Cell Phone Rip-Off
10 December 2012
Can South Africa learn from Venezuela when looking at state telecommunications provider like CANTV?
