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Hi Critters,

Those of you interested in labour, economic geographies or  
grassroots/autonomous politics may be interested in this series of  
panels and lectures held by the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union, the  
CNT. The CNT are most famous for their popular collectivisation of  
huge swathes of Spain into anarchist communes during the Spanish Civil  
War, and their subsequent betrayal by Soviet-backed forces, but since  
the end of the Francoist regime they have made significant progress  
and are becoming one of the strongest union federations in Spain. They  
are marking their centenary with a series of conferences in April  
2010. Details below...

Ant


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Within the framework of the CNT-AIT centenary (1910-2010), a series of  
conferences brought together under the name of ?Alternatives to  
Capitalism: Self-management in the spotlight? will take place in  
Barcelona. These conferences will be held throughout april 2010. The  
contents will be organized in three blocks of lectures: theoretical,  
historical and a broader one, based in more current experiences.

The theoretical block draws up a program of lectures on how the  
capitalist system works, focusing on the present moment of economic  
and social crisis. Anarcho-syndicalist proposals facing the crisis  
will also be debated. This theoretical perspective is completed with  
several papers which shall offer a wide vision of economic and social  
literature on the subject of socialism and libertarian-communism models.





The historical block tries to put forward two strong models that may  
serve as an alternative to the capitalist system. On the one hand,  
that of the anarchist collectivization during the Spanish Civil War  
(1936-1939), for which lectures will be included to explain how it  
worked in the different regions where it was implemented (Catalonia,  
the Valencian Community, Aragon, Castile, Andalusia). On the other  
hand, explanations will be offered on the Yugoslav co-management model  
(1950-1990) with the purpose of assessing this experience both in the  
light of a possible model for the development of impoverished  
countries and from the limits imposed on socialism by the five-year  
plan, the market and the One Party State, along with a strictly  
libertarian vision of the whole process.
With the present block we intend to gain an insight on different  
organizational experiences that fight against capitalism nowadays from  
a self management point of view. In this sense, the contribution of  
the CNT-AIT (labour and socioeconomic aspects) is included, as well as  
those of other specific anarchist organizations (socio-political  
aspect), of some models of cooperatives with a radical perspective  
(labour and socioeconomic management aspect) or of cultural and study  
centres (cultural aspect). Finally there?s place for initiatives  
linked to local and municipal fields, such as those of squat social  
centres and apartments, municipalism or local assemblies  
(local-political aspect). Finally, from a wider geographical, and in  
some cases, thematic point of view, live experiences from other places  
in the world will be debated, such as social movements in Latin  
America, Chiapas, Brazil (Landless Workers Movement, MST), Argentina  
(enterprises recovered by their workers), Venezuela and Greece.
Updated information :
http://www.autogestion2010.info/lang/es-es/programa/#english
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Organizes:
Comisión del CeNTenario (Barcelona)
Collaborate:
Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo ? FAL (http://www.cnt.es/fal)
Instituto de Ciencias Económicas y de la Autogestión ? ICEA  
(http://iceautogestion.org)
Fundació d?Estudis Llibertaris i Anarcosindicalistes ? FELLA  
(http://www.nodo50.org/fella)
Schedule:
Friday 9th April. Capitalist system: exploitation, conflict and destruction
-4 p.m. Introduction to the conferences. CNT Barcelona
-4.15 p.m. Where do we stand in the crisis? Miren Etxezarreta.  
Economist, lecturer at Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) for 35  
years and member of the critic economic seminar TAIFA
-5.30 p.m. Capitalism today: crisis or downfall? Some thoughts. Toni  
Castells. Economist.
-6.45 p.m. Anarcho-syndicalist proposals in the face of the economic  
crisis. Gaspar Fuster. Economics teacher in Secondary Education and  
member of the Institute of Economic and Self-management Sciences (ICEA).
-8 p.m General debate and conclusions
Place: Pati Manning ? Auditori. C/ Montalegre, 7 ( L-3: Catalunya ó  
L-1 i L-2 Universitat).
Saturday 10th April ? Morning. Studies on self-management and models  
on socialism and libertarian communism (I).
-10 a.m. Socialism and libertarian communism in economic thought until  
1939. Lluís Rodríguez Algans. Economist and member of the Institute of  
Economic and Self-management Sciences (ICEA).
-11.15 a.m. Self-management, an up-to date debate: participative  
planning or re-conceptualization of the market. Endika Alabort  
Amundarain. Economics lecturer at Basque Country University (Euskal  
Herriko Unibertsitatea) and member of the Institute of Economic and  
Self-management Sciences (ICEA).
-12.30 p.m. Institute of Economic and Self-management Sciences: study  
and technical support for widespread self-management. Members of the  
ICEA.
-1.45 p.m. General debate and conclusions
Place: CCCB ? Aula 1. C/ Montalegre, 5 ( L-3: Catalunya ó L-1 i L-2  
Universitat).
Saturday 10th April ? Evening. Studies on self-management and models  
on socialism and libertarian communism (II).
-4 p.m.The economics of freedom: creating abundant lives for all (in  
English). Jon Bekken. Member of the editorial collective of  
Anarcho-syndicalist Review, former general secretary and treasurer of  
Industrial Workers of the World.
-5.15 p.m. Inclusive Democracy as a political project for a new  
libertarian synthesis: rationale, proposed social structure and  
transition (in English). Takis Fotopoulos. Political philosopher and  
ex-senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of North London (UK)  
where he taught Political Economy for over twenty years. He has been  
the editor of the theoretical journal Democracy & Nature, The  
International Journal of Inclusive Democracy since 1992 and founder of  
the Inclusive Democracy movement.
-6.30 p.m. Anarchist Planning for Twenty-first Century Economies: A  
Proposal (in English). Robin Hahnel. Professor Emeritus at American  
University where he taught Political Economy for thirty-three years,  
and is currently Visiting Professor of Economics at Portland State  
University. He is best known as co-creator along with Michael Albert  
of an economic model known as ?participatory economics? which is  
widely discussed as an alternative to capitalism (PARECON).
-7.45 p.m. General debate and conclusions
Place: CCCB ? Aula 1. C/ Montalegre, 5 ( L-3: Catalunya ó L-1 i L-2  
Universitat).
Friday 16th April. Anarchist collectivization during the Spanish Civil  
War 1936-1939 (I)
-4p.m. Historical background and social aspects of the Civil War. Paco  
Madrid. Historian.
-5.15p.m. Face to face against the state: the 1936 revolution and  
agrarian collectivism in Catalonia. Marciano Cárdaba. Historian.  
Researcher in the social, economic and political factors of agrarian  
collectivization in Catalonia (1936-1939).
-6.30p.m. Collectivist transformations in the industry and services in  
Catalonia (1936-1939). Toni Castells. Historian.
-7.45p.m. General debate and conclusions
Place: Pati Manning ? Auditori. C/ Montalegre, 7 ( L-3: Catalunya ó  
L-1 i L-2 Universitat).
Saturday 17th April ? Morning. Anarchist collectivization during the  
Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (II)
-10a.m. ?Agrarian collectivities in Aragon (1936-1939). Between  
revolution and reaction.? Walther L. Bernecker. Professor of the  
History of Spain, Portugal, and Latin-America at Friedrich Alexander  
University, Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany).
-11.15a.m. Coup-d?etat, war and social transformation in Andalusia and  
Castile (1936-1939). José Luis Gutiérrez Molina. Historian. Researcher  
in contemporary social history, particularly in Andalusia.
-12.30p.m. Collectivities in the Valencian Community. Ending with the  
typical topics. Manuel Vicent. Historian and archivist.
-1.45 p.m. General debate and conclusions
Saturday 17th April ? Evening. Yugoslavia 1950-1990
-4 p.m. Unequal development as a limit to the self-management process.  
The Yugoslav case. Ramón Franquesa. Lecturer of World Economy at  
University of Barcelona (UB). Researcher in management of natural,  
renewable resources and on Social Economy and non-capitalist economic  
organization processes
-5.15p.m. The Yugoslav selfmanagement squeezed by the plan, the market  
and the single party : is the suppression of institutions the  
solution? (in English). Catherine Samary. Professor and Researcher  
specialist of the Yugoslav and East European transformations; activist  
in internationalist networks.
-6.30p.m. Yugoslav Self-Management: An Anarchist perspective (in  
English). Andrej Gruba?i?. Historian and anarchist sociologist.  
Researcher in the subject of anarchism and the history of the Balkans.  
Member of Industrial Workers of the World.
-7.45p.m. General debate and conclusions
Tuesday 20th April. Organizational models as an alternative to  
capitalism: anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism.
-4p.m. CNT: syndicalism for social change. Genís Ferrero. Member of  
the CNT Barcelona.
-5.15p.m. Libertarian organizations: Iberian Anarchist Federation  
(FAI), Iberian Federation of Anarchist Youth (FIJA), Federation of  
Libertarian Students (FEL).
-6.45p.m. Uruguayan Anarchist Federation. Specific anarchism,  
anarchist direct action: towards the construction of the Popular  
Power. Mario Remedios. Secretary of Affairs of FAU. Militant of the  
Germinal Ateneo in the Villa Colón neighbourhood (Montevideo).
-8p.m. General debate and conclusions
Place: Centre Cívic Drassanes ? Sala d?Actes. C/Nou de la Rambla 43. (  
L-3: Liceu, Drassanes ó Paralel).
Wednesday 21st April. Organizational models as an alternative to  
capitalism: cooperativism and municipalism.
-4p.m. Solidarity economy: the embryo of a new economy? Jordi García  
Jané. Cooperativist, professor and writer on subjects related to  
solidarity economy and social alternatives in general.
-5.15p.m. Cooperatives: production, finances and consumption.  
Mol-Matric, Coop57, and Germinal.
-6.45p.m. Libertarian municipality on the way to self-management.  
Manel Aisa. Historian.
Assembly of the neighbourhood of Sants. Mireia Rosselló.
-8p.m. General debate and conclusions
Place: Centre Cívic Drassanes ? Sala d?Actes. C/Nou de la Rambla 43. (  
L-3: Liceu, Drassanes ó Paralel).
Thursday 22nd April. Organizational models as an alternative to  
capitalism: anarchism, culture and social movements.
-4p.m. House squatting and social centres. Jesús Rodríguez. Activist  
of the squat movement.
-5.15p.m. Libertarian Ateneo. Popular Encyclopaedic Ateneo and  
Libertarian Ateneo of Sants. Xavier Oller, historian and members.
-6.45p.m. Libertarian Centre of Studies: Foundation for Libertarian  
and Anarcho-syndicalist Studies (Barcelona), Libertarian Centre of  
Studies, Federica Montseny (Badalona), Libertarian Centre of Studies,  
Francesc Sàbat (Terrassa), Foundation Anselmo Lorenzo (Madrid). Members.
-8p.m. General debate and conclusions
Place: Centre Cívic Drassanes ? Sala d?Actes. C/Nou de la Rambla 43. (  
L-3: Liceu, Drassanes ó Paralel).
Saturday 24th April ? Morning. Nowadays experiences (I): Social  
Movements in Latin America, Chiapas y Brazil.
-10 a.m. Social movements in Latin America: you can?t fight  
progressivism. Raúl Zibechi. Thinker and activist, professor and  
researcher in social movements, journalist and international analyst  
for La Jornada (Mexico) and Brecha (Uruguay).
-11.15 a.m. Indigenous rebellion in Chiapas. Committee of Solidarity  
with the Zapatist rebellion.
-12.30p.m. Landless Workers Movement from Brazil, the struggle for  
land, Agrarian Reform, and a fairer society. María Carballo.  
Anthropologist and member of the MST Support Committee of Barcelona  
since 1996.
-13.45. General debate and conclusions
Place: CCCB ? Aula 2. C/ Montalegre, 5 ( L-3: Catalunya ó L-1 i L-2  
Universitat).
Satruday 24th April ? Evening. Nowadays experiences (II): Argentina,  
Venezuela and Greece
-4p.m. From crisis to self-management: origins and perspectives of the  
recovery of firms in Argentina. Luis Buendía. Economist and  
pre-doctoral researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM),  
and member of the Institute of Economic and Self-management Sciences  
(ICEA).
-5.15p.m. Imperialism, social reform and popular power in Venezuela.  
Luis Baños. Libertarian militant active in organizational, education  
and popular struggle processes in the rural environment and the city.  
Historian and member of the Institute of Economic and Self-management  
Sciences (ICEA).
-6.30p.m. Tracking down social antagonism and  
anarchist-antiauthoritarian movement in Greece. Anarchist companions  
from Greece.
-7.45p.m. General debate and conclusions
-8.15p.m. End of the program. CNT Barcelona
Place: CCCB ? Aula 2. C/ Montalegre, 5 ( L-3: Catalunya ó L-1 i L-2  
Universitat).





Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:21:04 -0300
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Subject: [ASN] Michel Foucalt - Do governo dos vivos (aulas de 09 e 30  
de janeiro de 1980)







Michel Foucalt - Do governo dos vivos (aulas de 09 e 30 de janeiro de 1980)







Do governo dos vivos. Curso no Collège de France, 1979-1980(aulas de  
09 e 30 de janeiro de 1980) Michel Foucault (tradução de Nildo Avelino)
"Nenhum poder existe por si! Nenhum poder, qualquer que seja, é  
evidente ou inevitável! Qualquer poder, consequentemente, não merece  
ser aceito no jogo! Não existe legitimidade intrínseca do poder! E a  
partir dessa posição, a démarche consiste em perguntar-se o que é  
feito do sujeito e das relações de conhecimento no momento em que  
nenhum poder é fundado no direito nem na necessidade; no momento em  
que qualquer poder jamais repousa a não ser sobre a contingência e a  
fragilidade de uma história; no momento em que o contrato social é um  
blefe e a sociedade civil um conto para crianças; no momento em que  
não existe nenhum direito universal, imediato e evidente que possa, em  
todo lugar e sempre, sustentar uma relação de poder qualquer que ela  
seja. Vocês vêem, portanto, que entre isso que se chama, grosso modo,  
a anarquia, o anarquismo e o método que eu emprego é certo que existe  
qualquer coisa como uma relação."
baixar arquivo em: Foucault, Michel - Do governo dos vivos.pdf

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