The struggle of Argentina’s recuperated workplaces forms part of a wide range of capillary attempts to overcome the democratic deicits of capitalist production and hierarchical intra-company governance, and it simultaneously provides “a possible answer to marginalization, structural unemployment and unequal income distribution” (Auin- ger, 2009) related to post-Fordist accumulation. In the creation of an alternative social order, workers’ struggles such as those of the recu- perated factories will play a key role, as success will heavily depend on the strength and the potential of a well-organized global workforce. Within the contemporary context of transnational capitalism orga- nized labor is, however, no longer the only unit of resistance.
Labor movements must form a central building bloc within a broad alliance or coalition of heterogeneous social forces characterized by their lexible internal organizational forms and interrelationships, as well as the collective determination to bring about a signiicant shift in the existing coniguration of power. Meaningful challenges to the status quo require an organic synergy between a wide range of actors such as of progressive social movements, political parties, universities and other educational institutions, grassroots media, and trade unions. (De Angelis, 2003; Deppe, 2011). Strategies of alternative projects need to be directed beyond the mere national context towards the global level where the struggle over hegemony ultimately unfolds. A coordination and co-operation needs to take place between radical counter-hegemonic forces in the industrialized capitalist countries and those in the periphery so that an effective potential that challenges the existing global order can emerge (Svampa, 2006b).
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