Quand vient le temps des élections, la classe politique nous sert ses discours les plus doux et nous fait ses promesses les plus belles. Le cirque électoral et ses charlatans sont de retour pour nous vendre leurs salades : chaque député-e, de chaque parti, nous annonce avec conviction qu'un vote en sa faveur sera synonyme de grand changement! On connaît la chanson... read full story / add a comment

La partie est finie pour Laurent Gbagbo. Le président de Côte d’Ivoire va devoir céder la place à Alassane Ouattara, soutenu par les Forces nouvelles (rebaptisées « Forces républicaines de Côte d’Ivoire »), par les forces de l’Onu et par l’armée française – la fameuse force Licorne – entrées en scène à l’acte final.
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Durante los últimos años hemos visto como se ha ido agudizando una política de represión hacia las luchas sociales, por medio de la persecución, encarcelamiento, judicialización y criminalización de muchas personas y organizaciones que levantan la voz contra las injusticias de este sistema, todo lo cual nos motiva a plantear nuestra posición política frente al tema, en especial frente al actual escenario de lucha de las y los presos sociales y políticos. read full story / add a comment

The economic crisis in South Africa has seen inequalities, and the forced misery of the working class, grow. While the rich and politicians have continued to flaunt their ill-gotten wealth, workers and the poor have been forced to suffer. It is in this context that the majority of the leaders of the largest trade unions have, unfortunately, elected to once again place their faith in a social dialogue and partnerships with big business and the state. So while the state and bosses have been on the offensive against workers and the poor, union officials have been appealing to them to save jobs during the crisis. Not surprisingly, this strategy has largely failed. While union leaders and technocrats have been debating about the policies that should or should not be taken to overcome the crisis, bosses and the state have retrenched over 1 million workers in a bid to increase profits. It is, therefore, sheer folly for union leaders to believe that the state and bosses are interested in compromise – without being forced into it. As seen by their actions, the elite are only interested in maintaining their power, wealth and lifestyles by making the workers and the poor pay for the crisis. For the elite, social dialogue is simply a tool to tie the unions up and limit their real strength – direct action by members. In fact, even before the crisis, social dialogue had been a disaster for the unions contributing towards their bureaucratisation and having abysmal results in terms of them trying to influence the state away from its pro-rich macro-economic policies. read full story / add a comment

Appeal for solidarity from the Madison, Wisconsin Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) branch. [Français] [Italiano] [Castellano] [Català] [Português] [Ελληνικά] [Deutsch] read full story / add a comment

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مصر وتونس وفرنسا والصين وشعوب العالم بأسره نرحب بمساندتهم وتعاطفهم معنا [English] [Français] [Italiano] [Castellano] [Català] [中文] [Português] [Ελληνικά] read full story / add a comment

Ultime notizie dal nostro compagno siriano Mazen Kamalmaz: La situazione sembra piuttosto difficile per il futuro delle rivoluzioni dei popoli arabi: la macchina ufficiale della repressione di stato sta funzionando a pieno regime in parecchi paesi, minacciando di sopprimere con forza brutale le rivolte di massa in Libia, Bahrain e Yemen. E' necessaria la nostra solidarietà in termini di azioni e di supporto! [English] [Ελληνικά] [Castellano] [العربية ] read full story / add a comment

Reflexions sobre el sentit de les actuals revoltes àrabs i les seves conseqüències per a la teoria revolucionària, particularment, per als debats entorn de la democràcia i al poder popular. [Castellano] [English] [Ελληνικά] [Italiano] [العربية] read full story / add a comment

Kapitalismen bidrager til at opretholde diskrimination og sexisme i samfundet. Det har store konsevenser for alle mennesker, især kvinder. Men hvordan slipper vi af med sexismen og de fastlåste kønsroller? read full story / add a comment

The struggle of the Libyan people, as part of the wave of popular rebellions spreading like fire in all of the Arab world, is taking a really dramatic turn, with the people advancing their struggle against a regime bent on staying in power by whatever means necessary. Gadaffi, in spite of his past as a thorn in the side of the US, had became a key ally in their War on Terror, as was proved by the late and clumsy reaction of the US to the events unfolding in Libya and the late suspension by the EU of their considerable trade in weapons with the Libyan regime. While the US and the Western powers re-discover, for public image purposes, that they really did not like Gadaffi after all (after a decade of friendly relations), talks have started about a possible intervention and US carriers have moved into waters close to the Libyan shores. The result of such a prospect would be terrible to say the least. In the meantime, the US and their Western allied are exploring the way to make sure that the revolt of the Libyan and the Arab masses does not settle down in revolutionary terms, as well as making sure that their economic and strategic interests are served in the best possible way in the post-Gadaffi scenario. To understand better what is going on there, we held another dialogue on February 27th with our friend and comrade, the Syrian anarchist Mazen Kamalmaz, who works on the revolutionary blog http://www.ahewar.org/m.asp?i=1385 José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
March 3rd, 2011 read full story / add a comment

Le Xe Congrès d’Alternative libertaire s’est tenu du 30 octobre au 1er novembre dernier à Angers. S’il a été beaucoup question du conflit social sur les retraites, bien d’autres thèmes furent abordés. Un ordre du jour très chargé.

(texte extrait du mensuel Alternative libertaire) read full story / add a comment

When Mohammed Bouazizi set himself alight he unwittingly ignited a wave of popular uprisings and rebellions that have spread like wildfire across North Africa and the Middle East, the heat of which can be felt as far afield as Zimbabwe where, on Saturday 19th February, 46 pro-democracy activists including students, workers and trade unionists were arrested in Harare. According to police documents they were arrested for plotting an Egypt-style revolt to overthrow Robert Mugabe, who has been in power since 1980, at a meeting to discuss the fall of Hosni Mubarak and events in North Africa and the Middle East. The arrested, who represent the Zimbabwean Federation of Trade Unions (ZCTU), Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZNSU) and the International Socialist Organisation (ISO), had just watched documentary news footage on the uprising in Egypt and, according to state prosecutors, were there to "organise, strategise and implement the removal of the constitutional government of Zimbabwe ... the Egyptian way". [Castellano] [Dansk] [Italiano] [العربية ] [Català] read full story / add a comment

The news that is flooding from Libya is very shocking. Qaddafi's regime is perpetrating a horrible massacre against the masses in revolt, the mercenaries (the equivalent to the Mubarak regime's baltajia) recruited by Qaddafi's regime, besides the regular army and security forces, are opening fire at unarmed Libyan people or, in some cases, armed with only very light firearms. The regime's repressive forces are not only using firearms, but also artillery, tanks, jet fighters and gunship helicopters... [Français] [Castellano] [Italiano] [Dansk] [Ελληνικά] [Deutsch] [Català] [Nederlands] read full story / add a comment

South African unions, centred on the 2 million-strong Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), have consistently articulated a policy vision that breaks with crude neo-liberalism. This is remarkable – but is it enough? Just how viable and desirable is this vision, particularly as the neo-liberal era lurches into a serious slump? And is there an alternative? [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

الانتفاضات الكبرى التي هزت العالم العربي في اليمن , الجزائر , تونس و الآن مصر قد فاجأت الجميع . إنها من دون شك واحدة من أهم الأحداث في وقتنا التي ترسل رسالة واضحة أنه لا يوجد أي مكان في هذا العالم كتب عليه أن يكون مجرد ملعب لديكتاتور ما مدعوم من الإمبريالية . تبين أن الأنظمة مفرطة السلطوية مثل نظام بن علي كانت عاجزة تماما في وجه شعب موحد و مصمم على خوض النضال . الناس الذين يقومون بالثورة هم شباب , عمال , عاطلون عن العمل , فقراء , و هم الذين يشكلون اليوم صورة المنطقة , و يرسلون رسائل مثيرة للقشعريرة إلى العصابات التي تجلس في واشنطن و تل أبيب . لم تمتلك كل الأسلحة التي جمعها نظام مبارك و لا كل الدعم الأمريكي العسكري القوة الكافية لمنع الاحتجاج من أن يتعاظم . إنها تظهر قوة الشعب و الطبقة العاملة عندما تتوحد , و تظهر الإمكانيات السياسية للناس العاديين في خلق سلطة مزدوجة بغريزة تحررية واضحة و هي تثبت للعالم أننا في مرحلة تغير ثوري . كان لنا حوارا سريعا مع رفيقنا مازن كم الماز من سوريا , محرر المدونة اللاسلطوية www.ahewar.org/m.asp?i=1385 الذي تحدث عن أهمية هذه الحركة السياسية الرائعة [Français] [Castellano] [Italiano] [Deutsch] [English] [Català] [Nederlands] [Ελληνικά] [Română] read full story / add a comment

Durante los días 25 y 26 de enero de 2011, en la ciudad de San Pablo (Brasil) se desarrollaron las Jornadas Anarquistas, convocadas por la Federación Anarquista Uruguaya (FAU) y el Foro del Anarquismo Organizado de Brasil (FAO). [Português] [English] [Català] read full story / add a comment

The Israeli anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist organization in Israel, Matzpen, of which Anarchists Against the Wall (AAtW) is a worthy heir, was the first to expose Israel as the culmination of a settler colonialist project (which continues to the present day)... [Castellano] [Italiano] [Ελληνικά] read full story / add a comment

Nos organisations affirment leur entière solidarité avec la lutte du peuple tunisien pour la liberté et la justice sociale et son soutien aux militants anticapitalistes tunisiens ; elles condamnent l'attitude des États occidentaux et plus généralement de leur classe politique, de droite comme social-démocrate, investie depuis toujours dans le soutien au pouvoir autoritaire de Ben Ali. [العربية ] [English] [Deutsch] [Italiano] [Ελληνικά] [Dansk] [Polski] [Türkçe] [Castellano] [Nederlands] [中文] read full story / add a comment

Die Frage der Gewalt spielte im anarchistischen Diskurs schon immer eine grosse Rolle. Wie sollte der urtümlichste und rohste Ausdruck von Macht mit der Lehre der Herrschaftslosigkeit in Einklang gebracht werden? Kann eine anarchistische, revolutionäre Strategie Gewalt beinhalten? [Italiano] [English] [Ελληνικά] [Polski] [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

Los únicos que pueden abrir el camino hacia un Magreb laico con auténtica democracia y con justicia social son los movimientos populares que nacen del seno mismo de las clases oprimidas y expresan sus intereses, dando una batalla sin cuartel contra las lacras que las atenazan. Afiancemos nuestros lazos con ellos. [Deutsch] [English] [Italiano] read full story / add a comment