21/ Mike Davis talks about how the idea to write the CITY OF QUARTZ came to him. ht @adamshatz linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9709/davis.html

On Friday at 11.00 CET at SNS in Florence Beverly Silver will deliver a lecture on 'Hegemonic transitions and the international order'. There will be the possibility to join online: istitutociampi.sns.it/en/evento/hege…

On Monday and Tuesday at the Scuola Normale in Florence we are hosting a two-days conference on 'Reclaiming Power: Bridging Social Movements and Industrial Relations in Labour Mobilisation' It will be possible to join remotely: sns.it/it/evento/recl…

We are closing the first day of our conference 'Reclaiming Worker Power' with a roundtable on interdisciplinary perspectives on labour conflict. Beverly Silver presenting on global social protest

The new issue of the Global Labour Journal journal is out, and it includes an article I wrote with francesco m and Angelo Moro on tariffs and the US labor movement ttps://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/6728

Su il manifesto recensisco il volume 'Lavoro e Salari in Italia', a cura di Lia Pacelli e Rinaldo Evangelista, che spiega bene le cause della disastrosa tendenza dei salari in Italia. Ne traggo anche le implicazioni: votare 5 sì a referendum del 8-9 giugno ilmanifesto.it/il-circolo-viz…

As Los Angeles burns again, Beverly Silver speaks this Wednesday at 1600hrs BST at King's College London on 'A Rising Tide of Global Social Protest and the Disintegrating Foundations of US World Hegemony'. Register here: kcl.ac.uk/events/a-risin…

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with Gastón Nievas Offidani [1/9] 🔗 wid.world/news-article/u…

I like how Piketty wrote a paper on unequal exchange and how the West got rich by stealing from the Third World where he only cited other Europeans and Americans and not a single one of the Third World economists who developed those ideas. Incredible bit of performance art

I am being generous. He is parading his genocidal racism (mocking Palestinians for starving to death)

Colonialism was violent & led to immense econ inequalities. Good this is recognized. But it needs to be understood within a broader theory of (the uneven development of) capitalism. There is no 'counterfactual' world where capitalism leads to equality, evenness & convergence 🫠

The 2nd edition of the International Strike Report is out, including data on strikes that took place in 11 countries in 2023 🇦🇷🇧🇪🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇳🇮🇹🇿🇦🇹🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇾 Check it out!👇 emekcalisma.org/wp-content/upl…

I spoke to Internazionale podcast Il Mondo about the Gerry Adams BBC defamation case. Thanks for having me Giulia Zoli! Ascolta qua il podcast di Internazionale, parlo sul processo per diffamazione di Gerry Adams contro la Bbc e il contesto storico: open.spotify.com/episode/0G4Jlz…

Domani a Pistoia per parlare un po' del numero di Jacobin Italia sul sindacato, a partire dall'articolo scritto con lisa dorigatti sulla questione salariale italiana

Lo dice l’Onu, la commissione indipendente di inchiesta sul territorio palestinese occupato: « l’obiettivo del governo israeliano è abbondantemente chiaro: la distruzione della vita a gaza ». Cioè, uno degli elementi del #genocidio

As the EU Parliament debates how to reform public procurement rules, I signed this petition that called on MEPs in the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) to protect local governments' right to provide services in-house.

Cos'è il dl sicurezza, spiegato bene. Lavoratori all'ennesimo (costoso) sciopero in pochi mesi perché la controparte nega qualsiasi confronto sul contratto (con l'inflazione che si è mangiata un quinto del loro stipendio) rischiano anni di carcere per una manifestazione pacifica.

Thursday and Friday at the Scuola Normale we are hosting this interenational conference on 'Countervailing Platform Power'. It will be possible to follow most of it online! Programme➡️sns.it/en/node/813403

10 PhD bursaries for the 4-year PhD program of Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence. Strenght points: labour, social movements, political economy, political communication. The call is open until the 25th of August: sns.it/en/phd-admissi…

Dagli aeroporti di Pisa e Montichiari ai porti di Genova e Salerno: la lotta contro la guerra ha colpito nel vivo, e allora il governo usa gli strumenti della repressione sindacale! Solidarietà a USB Sindacato e a thtte le lavoratrici e i lavoratori contro i carichi di morte.