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Crack capitalism or reclaim the state

A debate Hilary Wainwright John Holloway Fascinating debate between two leading left thinkers on whether the state can be democratised, how labour can be empowered and the best ways to confront...

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Public Community Partnerships in Peru and Uruguay

Philipp Terhorst talks to Alicia Araujo, Luis Isarra and Adriana Marquisio from the Platform for Public Community Partnerships of the Americas Water JusticeCitizen struggles for public water in Peru...

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Video: Water Union Rally in Jakarta - December 2010

MultimediaSorry, you need to install flash to see this content.In December 2010, hundreds of water union workers in Jakarta (Indonesia) protested against the privatisation of water services in the...

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UN World Water Day 2011: Reclaiming public water for our cities

Water JusticeTNI's Water Justice programme is marking this year's UN World Water Day in Cape Town at the GWOPA (Global Water Operator partnerships Alliance) Congress, in the continuing struggle to...

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The Way Forward - Voices from the Global Water Operator Partnership Alliance

MultimediaSorry, you need to install flash to see this content.GWOPA brings together public water operators, trade unions, workers and civil society on a platform to discuss, learn and develop model...

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Austerity, debt, social destruction in Europe: Stop!

LocationEuropean ParliamentBrusselsBelgium50° 51' 1.224" N, 4° 21' 6.156" E Coordinate our strengths - Democratic alternatives are necessary and possible! 31 May 2011Event location: European...

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Ireland’s Debt Crisis: Roots and Reactions

Andy Storey The Celtic Tiger might just find its strength and appetite for action in the growth of left leaning electorates and local citizens initiatives. The tailspin of economy caused by austerity...

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The Apple Connection

Walden BelloiPad and iPhone are engineering masterpieces, but they also epitomise the social relations of production today where capital is free and labour is repressed.read more

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Web-based course on Participatory Democracy

Call for applications The Transnational Institute (TNI), in cooperation with the Brazilian research centre CIDADE and the Latin American Programme for Distance Education in Social Sciences (PLED) is...

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The Marikana massacre

LocationTNI OfficebuildingDe Wittenstraat 25 Seminar roomAmsterdam1025 AKNetherlands52° 23' 5.082" N, 4° 52' 51.4524" ESee map: Google Maps Briefing by Brian Ashley 17 September 2012Event location: TNI...

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Unleashing the creativity of labour

Hilary WainwrightWhat would it mean if industrial policies aimed to release workers’ economic creativity – and not just in waged work but beyond? Hilary Wainwright draws inspiration from experiments in...

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Seeds of discontent

MultimediaWatch this trailer for a powerful new documentary about how supposedly well-meaning Dutch and Swedish investments can result in land grabbing and human rights abuses in one small community in...

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Notes for a political economy of creativity and solidarity

Hilary WainwrightHow can society move towards forms of economic organisation that place human creativity, including a respectful relationship to nature, at their centre?Download full paper: Notes for a...

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Doing away with ‘labour’

Working and caring in a world of commons Hilary WainwrightConventionally, the concept of ‘labour’ is understood as referring to waged labour – the capacity to labour as exercised through a market. It...

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Prokhorov’s Shock Modernization

Boris KagarlitskyThe public outrage that was caused by the leakage of a controversial amendment to the Labor Code in Russia might backfire beyond what the unions anticipated.read more

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