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Ezequiel Adamovsky
Ezequiel Adamovsky, born in Buenos Aires in 1971, is a historian and anti-capitalist activist. He studied history at the University of Buenos Aires --where he also teaches-- and has a PhD from University College London. As an activist, he has been involved in the students movement and, more recently, in the neighbours Assemblies movement that emerged in the city of Buenos Aires after the rebellion of December 2001. A member of collectives and networks of global resistance, he also participated in the process of the World Social Forum. Apart from his academic publications –mainly in the field of intellectual history-- he has written extensively on issues of globalisation, anti-capitalism and Leftist politics for websites and journals from several countries. His main activist books are Anti-capitalism for Beginners: The New Generation of Emancipatory Movements (Buenos Aires, 2003) and Beyond Old Left: Six Essays for a New Anti-Capitalism (Buenos Aires, 2007). His main academic books are Euro-orientalism: Liberal Ideology and the Image of Russia in France, c. 1740-1880 (Oxford, 2006) and Historia de la clase media argentina: apogeo y decadencia de una ilusión, 1919-2003 (Buenos Aires, 2009).
The hidden link between capitalism, social unrest, state violence, and corruption is becoming more and more exposed all over the world. Iraqis…
The corrosive effect that capitalism has over democracy is becoming more and more clear. Economic exploitation and the progressive privatization of every…
The recent rebellion in Bolivia brought some fresh air for Argentinean movements, at a time when the local political mood seems to…
In a rather dramatic move, the Argentinean Congress voted today (21 August) to invalidate two laws, passed by the same Congress in…
After Carlos Menem pulled out from the ballotage, Nestor Kirchner formerly a governor of a Patagonian province will take office the 25th…
On Sunday 27th April, almost one and a half years after the rebellion of December 2001, the first round of the presidential…
It was the first World Social Forum, 2001. The teleconference between representatives of the WSF and the World Economic Forum…
Susan George: The first Forum, in 2000, was about analysing the world situation, and I think as a movement we now largely…
Introducción El fenómeno de las Asambleas en Argentina es muy complejo, cada Asamblea es un mundo aparte, de modo que voy…