https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:49:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/greece-social-unrest-against-neoliberalism-and-austerity/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:44 +0000 http://arc.local/items/greece-social-unrest-against-neoliberalism-and-austerity/ Continued]]> Since 2008, Greece has been associated with mass protest, rioting and political crisis, as the result of the combination of economic crisis and an aggressive experiment in neoliberal social engineering. This chapter will attempt to analyse the dynamics of social and political conflict, and the emerging new configuration of mass political practices and social alliances in Greece.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/rebels-with-a-cause-the-december-2008-greek-youth-movement-as-the-condensation-of-deeper-social-and-political-contradictions/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:08 +0000 http://arc.local/items/rebels-with-a-cause-the-december-2008-greek-youth-movement-as-the-condensation-of-deeper-social-and-political-contradictions/ Continued]]> The events of December 2008 in Greece represent a turning point in social movements against neoliberalism and capitalist restructuring. They were the result of worsening employment prospects for young people, the aggressive restructuring of the educational system and concern about the effects of the current economic crisis. The originality of the movement lies in its unique scale, in the expression of a new unity of youth in struggle, in the demand for radical change and in its anti‐systemic character. It can be viewed as further evidence of the crisis of neoliberal hegemony and as a sign of growing hegemonic instability in European capitalist social formations. For this reason it poses both a theoretical and a political challenge.

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