When it was announced that London would host the first G20 meeting since the beginning of the worst financial crisis in almost a century, everybody knew it was a matter of time before protests were called. First the Climate Camp network – known for their annual ecological direct action camps – announced it would set up a ‘flashcamp’ in the City to make sure the G20 leaders put stopping climate change on their agenda. Their language was inoffensive and acceptable – the media found nothing to demonise in it – but they were well aware that any attempt at direct action protests in the City came with a precedent of serious disturbance and radical anti-capitalist politics, from the Stop the City marches in the 1980s to June the 18th 1999.

The second group to call a protest, “G20 Meltdown”, were all too happy to publicly embrace this legacy, with publicity calling to ‘storm the banks’ and ‘eat a banker’. This exceptionally loose coalition centres around a 66-year-old university professor called Chris Knight who is currently suspended from work for telling the media that ‘if the police want violence, they’ll get violence’. Funnily enough, G20 Meltdown were united by anything but violence, more their love of making strange statements and dressing up – having a ‘zombie pancake walk’ for instance, the message being that ‘capitalism is dead and bankers are therefore zombies’. Indeed.

Also see Le G20 ne changera rien!; ما الذي تفعله عندما تخسر عملك أو منزلك ؟

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Liberty & Solidarity is a political organisation aiming to build workplace and community democracy through direct action and struggling with all those fighting for change. We stand for the power of workers and local people against the bosses and politicians in order to bring about radical social change, to build a society based on freedom, democracy, cooperation.

Only six months ago, L&S was officially founded in the historic Freedom Bookshop in East London. Even at that early stage, we had brought together several of the UK’s most serious class struggle activists involved in various workplace and community. Since then we’ve helped reform the IWW and seen successes through LCAP, community gardens in Reading and local newssheets in Glasgow. However, if the tone was set at the first conference, the volume was most definitely turned up at the second.

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Entre os dias 19 e 25 de fevereiro de 2009, as Organizações que compõem o Fórum do Anarquismo Organizado (FAO) estiveram reunidas em Porto Alegre para a realização do VI encontro nacional.

Além da troca de experiências e dos acordos políticos firmados entre as organizações, o encontro serviu para pensarmos a política de relações em um cenário nacional onde surgem e se fortalecem grupos e organizações anarquistas além do FAO, com concepções e práticas políticas similares. Com esses estamos dispostos a nos relacionar, no intuito de avançarmos num projeto militante para a realidade brasileira com todos os afins. O encontro serviu também para atualizarmos a análise de conjuntura, estabelecendo as linhas gerais para este ano que se inicia.

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Alternative libertaire a lancé sur l'hexagone une campagne de développement de son courant politique dans un contexte de crise politique et économique. Nos camarades écrivent que «le combat politique est rude et nous avons besoin d’une gauche libertaire, révolutionnaire et extraparlementaire plus forte, ayant plus d’écho parmi les exploité-e-s», un constat qui vaut d'un côté comme de l'autre de l'Atlantique.

Outre le matériel de campagne habituel, AL en a profité pour republier le Manifeste pour une alternative libertaire. Il s'agit d'un texte majeur du courant communiste libertaire francophone contemporain. Ironiquement, ce texte risque d'avoir aujourd'hui une bien meilleure diffusion que lors de son lancement, au tout début des années 1990. En effet, cette fois le Manifeste est encarté dans le mensuel du groupe et est diffusé en kiosque dans toute la France.

==> Téléchargez le pdf du Manifeste

O I Congresso da FARJ foi realizado com o principal objetivo de aprofundar nossas reflexões sobre a questão da organização e formalizá-las em um programa.

Desde 2003, este debate vem acontecendo dentro de nossa organização. Produzimos materiais teóricos, apuramos nossas reflexões, extraímos ensinamentos de erros e acertos de nossa prática política e foi se tornando cada vez mais necessário aprofundar o debate e formalizá-lo, difundindo este conhecimento, tanto interna quanto externamente.

O documento "Anarquismo Social e Organização" formaliza nossas posições após todas estas reflexões. Mais do que um documento puramente teórico, ele reflete as conclusões realizadas após 5 anos de aplicação prática do anarquismo nas lutas sociais de nosso povo.

Para ler, clique nos links do "Sumário" abaixo. O documento está dividido em 16 partes. Em breve será publicado em livro numa co-edição Faísca/FARJ.