Setting the Mood for our Debate

Crises are results of increased problems, contradictions, and dysfunctionalities. They offer possibilities to moderate, to tackle and to solve such problems, contradictions, and dysfunctionalities. All the different stakeholders, as they exist, are challenged to react to the accumulated problems, More

Georgi Medarov: Land Concentration, Land Grabbing and Land Conflicts in Europe: The Case of Boynitsa in Bulgaria

This chapter examines the socio-historical processes in Bulgaria that have led to the very visible trend of land centralisation, or land grabs, since 2007. It draws on a case study of land grabbing near the village of Boynitsa in northwest Bulgaria. This region, often described as the ‘poorest region in the EU’ More

Kees van der Pijl: Replies to the Questions for the Berlin Workshop

The outbreak of the crisis was the endpoint of attempts to contain the crisis that effectively erupted when capital abrogated the class compromise forced on it by labour and socialist forces in 1968-69. A most convincing theory elaborating this is Wolfgang Streeck’s claim (in Gekaufte Zeit/Buying Time:  More