Sembra un paradosso per un paese devastato dalla crisi e dove cresce senza rimedio la miseria sociale. Sembra, ma in economia tutto ha una logica ferrea e nulla accade per caso, senza un fine predisposto dal capitale finanziario internazionale. Dunque, da dove viene e come si sostanzia l’euforia degli acquirenti dei titoli di stato di un paese che versa in queste disastrate condizioni? L’effetto di questa discesa dello spread è, ovviamente, un allentamento della tensione finanziaria e la possibilità di evitare nuovi ricorsi alle tasse per questioni di pareggio, un aumento della liquidità dello stato, ecc. read full story / add a comment

El Foro Social Mundial 2013 se cerró el sábado pasado en Túnez con una marcha en solidaridad con Palestina, la única causa del mundo -aparte ese vago “otro mundo es posible” de la convocatoria- que une sin diferencias a todos los movimientos sociales, partidos y organizaciones del espectro rebelde, incluidas algunas de derechas o de extrema derecha, como es el caso de los salafistas que hacían ondear sus banderas negras, barbas al viento, en medio del tumulto. Fuera de ese puntito de dolor compartido, el Foro ha sido sobre todo el campo paradójicamente festivo de un crepitar de forcejeos, tensiones y rivalidades territoriales. Un campo de batalla, si se quiere, donde se libraban escaramuzas de muy diversa índole y en muy dispares niveles de visibilidad. read full story / add a comment

Με αφορμή την 'εθνική΄ εορτή αποφασίσαμε να σχολιάσουμε μέσα από την δική μας οπτική την επανάσταση του 21,το μάθημα της ιστορίας και τις παρελάσεις.Παρακάτω δημοσιεύουμε αποσπάσματα από την μπροσούρα μας.'ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ 1821 ΚΑΙ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΗ ΔΙΑΠΑΙΔΑΓΩΓΗΣΗ' read full story / add a comment

“On the eve of the crisis, the bourgeois, with the self-sufficiency that springs from intoxicating prosperity, declares money to be a vain imagination. Commodities alone are money. But now the cry is everywhere: money alone is a commodity! As the hart pants after fresh water, so pants his soul after money, the only wealth.”

— Capital, Karl Marx. read full story / add a comment

Da rivoluzionari noi aspiriamo ad una società che garantisca il benessere di tutte e di tutti. Il soddisfacimento dei bisogni fondamentali è indispensabile e per questo dobbiamo valutare quello che abbiamo oggi nella società capitalistica, ma anche quali lotte sviluppare per migliorare i rapporti di forza a nostro favore e dare impulso all'emergere del comunismo libertario. [Français] read full story / add a comment

Rispetto all'elezione di Bergoglio quale nuovo papa, Luis D'Elía (uomo politico e dirigente di tendenza socialcristiana, membro della Central de los Trabajadores Argentinos, ndt) ha detto: "Francesco I è per l'America Latina ciò che Giovanni Paolo II è stato per l'Unione Sovietica, essendo il nuovo obiettivo dell'impero quello di distruggere l'unità sudamericana".
Pur senza far nostro questo punto di vista, bisogna ammettere che questo accostamento riesce nel cogliere un elemento essenziale: le crepe sempre più visibili all'interno del ex-bastione del cattolicesimo. Con l'avanzata delle chiese evangeliche, il cattolicesimo latino-americano ha perso il monopolio sulla religione. [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

La Confederación General del Trabajo (Spagna), la Union Syndicale Solidaires (Francia) e la Central Sindical e Popular Conlutas (Brasile) hanno lanciato un invito internazionale a tutte le organizzazioni che si considerano parte del movimento sindacale conflittuale e che sentono la necesità di un cambiamento sociale per un meeting sindacale internazionale da tenersi a Parigi il 22-24 marzo allo scopo di lavorare verso il coordinamento del sindacalismo alternativo a livello internazionale. [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

Révolutionnaires nous aspirons à une société garantissant l'épanouissement de toutes et tous. La satisfaction de nos besoins fondamentaux étant indispensable à cet objectif nous nous devons d'évaluer ce qu'il en est en l'état de la société capitaliste, ainsi que les luttes à porter pour augmenter le rapport de force en notre faveur et favoriser l'émergence du communisme libertaire. [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

The development of modern society and what has happened to the working-class movement over the last 100 years (and in particular since 1917) have compelled us to make a radical revision of the ideas on which that movement has been based.
Forty years have elapsed since the proletarian revolution seized power in Russia. From that revolution it is not socialism that ultimately emerged but a new and monstrous form of exploiting society and totalitarian oppression that differed from the worst forms of capitalism only in that the bureaucracy replaced the private owners of capital and “the plan” took the place of the “free market.” Ten years ago, only a few people like us defended these ideas. Since then, the Hungarian workers have brought them to the world’s attention.
Among the raw materials for such a revision are the vast experience of the Russian Revolution and of its degeneration, the Hungarian workers’ councils, their actions, and their program. But these are far from being the only elements useful for making such a revision. A look at modern capitalism and at the type of conflict it breeds shows that throughout the world working people are faced with the same fundamental problems, often posed in surprisingly similar terms. These problems call everywhere for the same response. This answer is socialism, a social system that is the very opposite of the bureaucratic capitalism now installed in Russia, China, and elsewhere.
The experience of bureaucratic capitalism allows us clearly to perceive what socialism is not and cannot be. A close look both at past proletarian uprisings and at the everyday life and struggles of the proletariat enables us to say what socialism could and should be. Basing ourselves on a century of experience we can and must now define the positive content of socialism in a much fuller and more accurate way than was possible for previous revolutionaries. In today’s vast ideological morass, people who call themselves socialists may be heard to say that they “are no longer quite sure what the word means.” We hope to show that the very opposite is the case. Today, for the first time, one can begin to spell out in concrete and specific terms what socialism really could be like. read full story / add a comment

Cornelius Castoriadis, aka Paul Cardan, was the most prominent member of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group in France in the late 1940s-1960s, which advocated workers’ self-management in workplaces and society as opposed to capitalism in its private and state-run forms. Here we present Maurice Brinton’s translation of Castoriadis’ classic On the content of socialism. The work is subtitled ‘From the Critique of Bureaucracy to the Idea of the Proletariat’s Autonomy’ read full story / add a comment

The Confederación General del Trabajo (Spain), the Union Syndicale Solidaires (France) and the Central Sindical e Popular Conlutas (Brazil) have extended an international invitation to all organizations that consider themselves part of the combative trade union movement and see the need for social transformation to an international trade union meeting to be held in Paris from 22 to 24 March in order to work towards the coordination of alternative trade-unionism on an international level. [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

Durante el último fin de semana de enero se realizó en Porto Alegre, al sur de Brasil, la décima versión del Encuentro Latinoamericano de Organizaciones Populares Autónomas (ELAOPA). read full story / add a comment

Los organizadores señalan que con la realización de este encuentro no pretenden declarar la constitución de una nueva organización internacional. Se quiere fortalecer, ampliar, hacer más eficiente, una red de sindicalismo ofensivo, democrático, autónomo, alternativo, internacionalista. [English] [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

Regarding the election of Bergoglio as the new pope, Luis D'Elía said: "Francis I is for Latin America what John Paul II was for the Soviet Union. The new aim of the empire to destroy South American unity".
Without actually embracing this point of view, this comparison manages to capture an essential element: cracks are becoming apparent in the former bastion of Catholicism. With the advance of the evangelical churches, Latin American Catholicism has lost the monopoly on religion. [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

El objetivo de este documento es analizar elementos ideológicos de la izquierda revolucionaria relacionados con los procesos sociales de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, e intentar entender sus lecturas y conclusiones sobre su contexto político y económico, en especial las temáticas sobre la cuestión nacional y la soberanía, e identificar cuáles fueron sus efectos reales en el movimiento popular y en la lucha de clases en Latinoamérica -desde la mirada libertaria-; comprender si se trata de perspectivas superadas o todavía actuales. read full story / add a comment

Annnouncemt of a new book by Wayne Price which is an introduction for anarchists and other libertarian socialists to Karl Marx's crtique of political economy. In what ways can Marx's economic critique be of assistance to anarchists? What are anarchists' critique of Marx's economic theories, goals, and method? read full story / add a comment

Uno de los grandes temas contingentes en las últimas semanas en el imaginario de la izquierda a nivel nacional, regional e internacional ha sido la muerte de Hugo Chavez. Evidentemente un personaje carismático y bastante excéntrico – líder de la llamada “revolución bolivariana”- que encabezó un proceso social, muy complejo, que contiene hasta ahora una gama de aciertos, contradicciones y limitaciones. Las diferentes tendencias políticas han dado condolencias, han planteado sus opiniones a favor del proceso o se han posicionado de alguna forma sobre este hecho y el proceso detrás. Los libertarios no se han excluido de este proceso de discusión y un conjunto de puntos de vista se ventilan en los diferentes medios no exentos de polémica. read full story / add a comment

Da quanto ne sappiamo, hanno eletto papa un complice della giunta militare argentina presieduta dal tenente generale Videla, a cui è legata la tragica vicenda dei “desaparecidos”. Peggio di così il collegio cardinalizio non poteva fare. Coloro che speravano in un processo di rinnovamento e in un riscatto morale della chiesa sono stati serviti. Oltretutto si tratta di un papa gesuita, per cui temo che il nome da lui scelto, Francesco, non abbia proprio nulla da spartire con il poverello di Assisi, ma con un tale Francesco Saverio, gesuita e missionario spagnolo vissuto nella prima metà del 1500. E’ un malcostume tipico dei gesuiti quello di depistare e confondere la pubblica opinione. read full story / add a comment

Παρά τη γεωγραφική απόσταση τους, η Γάζα και η Νιγηρία είναι παρόμοιες σε πολλά επίπεδα. Η Νιγηρία είναι ένας από τους μεγαλύτερους εξαγωγείς πετρελαίου στον κόσμο αλλά και μία από τις φτωχότερες χώρες του κόσμου. Εκατοντάδες Νιγηριανοί πεθαίνουν ενώ προσπαθούν να αποκτήσουν μερικά λίτρα πετρελαίου για δική τους κατανάλωση, τη στιγμή που το πετρέλαιο ρέει ακριβώς μπροστά στα μάτια τους. Οι κάτοικοι της Γάζας, επίσης, υποφέρουν από ακραία φτώχεια, υψηλή ανεργία αλλά και θανάτους που οφείλονται στις συνεχείς διακοπές ρεύματος, παρά τα μεγάλα κοιτάσματα φυσικού αερίου στη Μεσόγειο Θάλασσα, μπροστά στα μάτια τους. read full story / add a comment

La jerarquía del Vaticano posó sus ojos en América del Sur, la región donde combatió a muerte (textualmente) a los teólogos de liberación. Alineada con los poderosos, lo que no le impide hacer guiños populistas hacia los pobres, está a punto de tomar posición ante la integración regional y los gobiernos progresistas. read full story / add a comment