Program

Day 1: Worker struggles and initiatives within different branches of the energy sector and energy intensive industries

Day 2: Concepts and long term strategy for energy and labour in transition


Day 3: Proposals for global actions and interventions, in relation to the international event „Another Energy is Possible!“ and other initiatives


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Day 1 : Friday 22nd January

Worker struggles and initiatives within different branches of the energy sector and energy intensive industries


The format for this section will be presentations followed by open discussion and questions.


8.30    Tea and Coffee

Part 1: Introduction

9.30   Leo Kühberger: Welcome to Volkshaus
9.45   Kolya Abramsky: Introduction to Seminar
10.00 All participants: Introductions and Expectations Round
11.15 Break

Part 2: The Global Landscape: Climate, Energy and Crisis

11.30 Simon Lewis: Climate Change or System Change? The Post Copenhagen Landscape
11.50 George Caffentzis: Energy and Crisis
12.10 Tom Keefer: Changing Ownership Patterns in the Global Oil Sector
12.30 Freddy Pulecio: Energy and Security in the North and in the South: A Threat to World Peace?
13.00 All  participants: Questions and discussion
13.30 Lunch

Part 3 Contemporary Struggles in the Energy Sector 

15.00 Francisco Ramirez: Workers Struggles in the Colombian Coal Sector
15.30 Freddy Pulecio: Workers Struggles in the Colombian Oil Sector and Regional Integration
16.00 David Hall: A Global Overview of Struggles Against Privatization of Electricity
16.20 All participants: Questions and discussion
16.50 Break

Part 4: Worker Struggles in the Energy Intensive Industries

17.10 Jung Sikhwa: Heroic Workers Struggle in the Ssangyoung Car Factories, Ending in Defeat for the Worker´s and Korean Working Class
17.30 Dave Bleakney: Postal Workers Experiences Around Energy Conversion  in Canada
17.50 Cedric Gina: Metal Workers Experiences Around Energy Conversion  in South Africa
18.10 Winfried Wolf: Railway Privatization in Europe and "Program RailwayEurope2025"
18.30 All participants: Questions and discussion


Day 2 Saturday 23rd January 

Concepts and long term strategy for energy and labour in transition

The format for this section will be presentations followed by open discussion and questions, as well as roundtable discussions.


8.30 Tea and Coffee

Part 1: Energy, Labour, and Capital Accumulation: Crisis and Resistance

9.30 Kolya Abramsky: Energy, Labour and Social Reproduction in the World-Economy: Struggles over Transition
9.50 Tom Keefer: Energy Crisis and Transition, Mechanization and Class struggle
10.10 George Caffentzis: Links Between the World-Economic-Financial Crisis and Energy Crisis
10.30 Fotini Tsaglioti (co-authored with Aristotle Tympas): Rhetoric and Reality of Automatic Control of Energy
Technologies in Historical Capitalism: from Steam to Wind Power
10.50 Paula Alvarez: Mechanization, Capital Accumulation and Worker Struggle in the Colombian Ethanol Sector: A Critique of “Sustainability Certificates”
11.30 All participants: Discussion and Questions
12.00 Break

Part 2: Class Struggle and the Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility

12.20 Erika Gonzalez: Energy Transition and A Critique of Corporate Social Responsibility in the Latin American Energy Sector
13.00 Asbjorn Wahl: Climate Change - A Question of Social Power and Redistribution of Wealth
13.20 All participants: Discussion and Questions
13.45 Lunch

Part 3: Worker-community led Energy Transition Processes

15.15 Dave Elliot: A Sustainable Social and Technological Transition: Lessons from the Lucas Initiative
15.35 Round Table Discussion Cedric Gina, Pacho Ramirez, Freddy Pulecio, Dave Bleakney, Winfried Wolf: Laying the Groundwork for a Worker-community-led Conversion and Phase-out of the Existing fossil fuel and Energy Intensive Industries
16.35 Round Table Discussion Yannis Margaris, Sergio, Tam Dougan, Jonathan Neale: Building Human, Technical, Financial and Infrastructural Capacity for a Worker-
Community led Renewable Energy Technology Transfer
17.35 Break
18.00 Round Table Discussion Massimo De Angelis and George Caffentzis: Energy, Commons, Hierarchy and Social Reproduction


Day 3 Sunday 24th January


Proposals for global actions and interventions, in relation to the international event „Another Energy is Possible!“ and other initiatives


9.00 Tea and coffee

Part 1: Global initiatives, long term perspectives and short term interventions

10.00 Kolya Abramsky, Peer de Rijk and Francisco Ramirez: Introduction to Another Energy is Possible!
10.45 All participants: General open discussion on long term perspectives for global transition process
11.30 All participants: General open discussion on which kind of short term global interventions might contribute to this long term process of change
12.15 Lunch

Part 2: Concrete Proposals for Globally Oriented Actions

13.45 All participants: Workers Struggles in the Bolivian Social Movement Conference, called for by the Bolivian Government
14.45 All participants: International Initiative on Community Renewable Energy
15.45 Break
16.15 All participants: International Meeting on Worker-community led Conversion of
        Energy Intensive Industries (as preparatory event for Another Energy is Possible)
17.15 All participants: International Study Tour/Meeting on Transportation and Agrofuels                 (as preparatory event for Another Energy is Possible)
18.15 Kolya Abramsky: Closing remarks