Dear all,
below the link to our contribution concerning the discussion on the future of Blockupy after the successful blockades of the opening of the ECB building. The focus is on mobility - with some first remarks on the agenda on migrations approved by the European commission - and the transnational strike. Hope it could be of interest
Best
Paola
One step beyond. Blockupy from blockades to the transnational strike
We start from a fact. Mobility is the distinguishing feature of contemporary living labor and what is at stake within the European political space. Mobility is about migrants who daily challenge the border-regime in Southern and Eastern Europe. Mobility is about millions of men and women who every day move from one job to another in order to back out of the precarity imposed by the wage regime and austerity policies. Mobility is about EU citizens, who travel northwards looking for a job that otherwise would not exist. Against the undisciplined and unstoppable force of these movements, the European governance turns into a government of mobility, doomed to run behind the movements of living labor inside and across its borders. This horizon of opposition to the government of mobility is what our gaze should point at. Transnational strike can be the process and the event which politicizes the European crisis once for all. It is about taking one step beyond what we are and what we know in order to find out what we can do…read more.