[spectre] Resistance comes first, crisis comes next

[pavlos hatzopoulos]

*http://www.resistancecomesfirst.gr/* <http://www.resistancecomesfirst.gr/>

In December 2008, an unprecedented revolt erupted all over Greece. Months of
creative unrest and experimentation with alternative forms of organization
and new forms of life. In the occupations of public spaces, in the new
unionism and in the everyday forms of public protest, strategic alliances
were formed between a multitude of social actors. As a result, new and
unprecedented forms of struggle were invented and practiced.

A year later, Greece was pronounced “a state in debt crisis” on the verge of
bankruptcy. Dramatic cuts in public spending and aggressive re-structuring
policies were introduced as emergency measures, while intense and extensive
policing has been attacking all forms of protest and dissidence and is
deemed necessary in order to safeguard public order.

The state of a permanent economic crisis is not a uniquely “Greek”
predicament, but represents yet one more episode in the crisis of the
neoliberal state and of the capitalist organisation of production. The
ensuing aggressive attacks on social welfare and workers’ rights emerge as a
common structural condition in the whole of the European South. This
condition calls for new collective responses and the invention of new forms
of creative resistances that will spread across borders.

Following our desire for collective action across borders, we are organizing
a two day meeting that will bring together social movement activists and
thinkers from South Europe to discuss ways of reinventing the micropolitics
of everyday life through new forms of political and economic organization
and networking.

The meeting will take place in Athens and will include:

- An *open discussions with interventions by collectivities* on new forms of
resistance that have emerged since the December revolt

- The meeting will include *interventions by* *Antonio Negri, Sandro
Mezzadra, Gigi Roggero, Andrea Fumagalli, Vassilis Tsianos, Dina Vaiou, Juan
Domingo Sanchez, Zeleia Grigoriou, Maria Karamessini, Akis Gavriilidis,
Stavros Stavridis, Illias Marmaras, Daphne Dragona, Nelli Kambouri, Pavlos
Hatzopoulos, Dimitris Parsanoglou
*

- A general assembly discussing new strategies of resistance and new
collective responses across borders to the crisis.

*The meeting will take place in Athens, on Saturday – Sunday 16-17 October
2010*
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