This essay is an argument for moving towards national organization in the United States. It explores the limitations of political organization today, recent positive experiences, and possible ways to build on the present to push forward. read full story / add a comment

Hacemos un llamado fraterno y urgente a todxs los compañeros activistas de organizaciones colectivos y medios alternativos para que sigan difundiendo, y con más fuerza, n nuestra situación, así como un sincero y humilde agradecimiento a todos los que ya lo hacen. No nos abandonen, cuando logremos recuperar nuestra libertad y como hemos hecho siempre nosotros no los abandonaremos bajo ninguna circunstancia.
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This is a piece we’re sharing originally posted to Machete 408 by Adam Weaver. It is a review/summation piece is being released in conjunction with a forthcoming piece by Scott Nappolas which presents an extensive discussion of Lenin’s concept of democratic centralism. read full story / add a comment

The terrain is changing beneath our feet. Since the collapse of the majority of the “official communist” regimes, the world has witnessed both events and ideas that have undermined the former dominant thinking within the left. The Zapatistas, Argentina in 2001, South Korean workers movements, Oaxaca in 2006, the struggles around anti-globalization, and Greece’s series of insurrectionary moments have increasingly presented challenges to traditional left answers to movements and organization. In previous eras Marxist-Leninism was the nexus which all currents by default had to respond to either in agreement or critique. Today, increasingly anarchist practices and theory have come to play this role.

As a member of an anarchist political organization, a friend once told me I in fact was practicing democratic centralism. This was perplexing, because the group had no resembling structures, practices, or the associated behaviors of democratic centralism. However, I was told that since we debated, came to common decisions, and acted on that collective democracy, we were in fact democratic centralist. This kind of productive confusion led to questions about the concept, and why the target of democratic centralism has shifted. This move, the shifting conceptual territory of core concepts of a certain orthodoxy, comes up repeatedly not only with democratic centralism, but also surrounding ideas like crisis, dialectics, the State, and class. The resulting cognitive dissonance caused me to investigate attempts at reinvigorating the concept of democratic centralism (democratic centralist revisionism), and understand truly what it is, where it came from, and how it has been practiced. read full story / add a comment

Apoyo incondicional a los estudiantes expulsados del Colegio De Ciencias y Humanidades, plantel Naucalpan

Marcha este Jueves 14 de Marzo del Monumento Alvaro Obregon a Rectoria.

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The 7th Annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair will happen April 5-7, at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center on the Lower East Side. read full story / add a comment

Además de afrontar un posible decreto gubernamental que pretende institucionalizar su funcionamiento, la toma de sus instalaciones por parte de la Upoeg representa “una agresión directa contra el sistema comunitario”, denuncia la Coordinadora Regional de Autoridades Comunitarias read full story / add a comment

I started the day feeling pessimistic about what would happen and even though on the whole, people came, yelled and then went home, I was a lot more encouraged by the days events than I thought I’d be.

That said, let me be clear that this is an accounting of the days events and not any sort of feeling of victory or satisfaction with the business unions’ approach or their marriage to the democratic party. This is an attempt to describe what I was seeing glimpses of, piece that are present, just below the surface in spite of the unions’ backwards ways.

This bill is only possible because most of the unions have not been organizing, have been acting in the interests of the bosses as much as in the interests of workers and have wed themselves almost completely to the democratic party, who hasn’t really given them a thing in several decades. I don’t dispute any of that and have had my share of experiences with unions that make me sick to my stomach. That said, I think it is incorrect to write them off as obsolete, having run their course or irrelevant. The hundreds of thousands of people who participate in their unions, despite their problems don’t think so and I think it is a mistake to dismiss those sentiments and commitments. That was demonstrated pretty well in what I saw on Tuesday. read full story / add a comment

In a time when people are experiencing unparalleled hardship, Miami-Dade county is ramping up to steamroll more foreclosures. This news comes as rents are rising[1] in Miami spurred on by international speculators and investors, and people losing their homes. Nationally homeless is increasing due to the pervasive unemployment, sub-poverty wages of the lowest tier of the working population, and the multi-decade long attacks on housing safety nets. We are now witnessing a homelessness that includes young able bodied people some of whom are working while homeless[2]. read full story / add a comment

In recent days, following the events of the demonstrations on December 1st for the presidential inauguration of Enrique Peña Nieto, during which the police forces, both of the Federal [national] and Federal District [Mexico City] forces, brutally repressed demonstrators - officials of the Federal District government, amongst whom were the head of government of the FD and the capital's attorney, have made statements declaring that those responsible for the clashes are anarchist groups.[Castellano] [Français] [Deutsch] read full story / add a comment

Pablo a MAS member presented on political organization and intermediate level analysis at the Losa Angeles Anarchist Bookfair. read full story / add a comment

We are a group of anarchist fiction writers assembling an anthology of stories to be published in early 2013. read full story / add a comment

Announcing the Heat Index blog at www.heatindexatl.info read full story / add a comment

The Anarchist Writers' Bloc - Minneapolis Chapter seeks submissions for a forthcoming anthology of anarchist fiction! Submit to awb@riseup.net by December 21, 2012.
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We are excited to announce the 3rd annual Carrboro Anarchist Bookfair for the weekend of November 10th. In the past two years these bookfairs have served as a gathering place and melting pot of radical ideas and texts, workshops and discussions, and action in our region. Long-time friends and comrades, book lovers and firebrands, and the openly curious are all invited to attend. read full story / add a comment

Depuis la création de SAGE-UQAC (Service de l’association générale étudiante de l’UQAC), un conseil d’administration a été mis sur pied. Ce C.A a pour mission la viabilité financière du MAGE-UQAC, via la création de services dans les murs de l’université. Historiquement, le MAGE-UQAC n’a jamais été une association étudiante très combative; elle misait beaucoup plus sur la collaboration et le copinage avec les « gestionnaires » de l’université. Ayant été créée en 1969, l’UQAC a toujours accueilli énormément d’étudiants et étudiantes en administration. Ils et elles ont d’ailleurs été les créateurs et créatrices du MAGE-UQAC et de ses services. La vision entrepreneuriale de ceux et celles-ci a amené la base militante étudiante à déserter cette association étudiante puisqu’elle ne représentait pas ses intérêts et n’était pas fidèle à sa mission. read full story / add a comment

Les étudiantes et étudiants de l’UQAC sont aux prises avec une association étudiante générale, le MAGE-UQAC, constituée comme corporation de services, éteignoir de la contestation universitaire locale. Plutôt que droit acquis de chaude lutte (menée au niveau national), le MAGE-UQAC considère apparemment sa reconnaissance comme un privilège à conserver par une collaboration active dans les objectifs du rectorat; par la cooptation. De même, sa « défense des membres » passe essentiellement par les désirs passagers de fêtes et activités sociales et non, par la défense des intérêts réels étudiants, revendications historiquement définies depuis le mouvement d’occupations étudiantes d’octobre 1968. Un masque doit tomber! read full story / add a comment

Au Mage-uqac tout comme à la FEUQ, le trou est béant, même carrément géant: le féminisme n’existe pas. Aucune de ces instances ne présente une forme, un embryon, un quelque chose aussi minime soit-il qui s’apparente au féminisme. Bien entendu, la FEUQ a développé quelques publications, par-ci et par-là, mais sous la rubrique ‘’Dossier’’, parmis les Droits d’auteur et les Finances publiques québécoises, aucune trace des revendications des femmes. Or, pour un syndicat étudiant, il est abérant voir inacceptable de faire fie des réalités de près de la moitié de ses membres. Autour de ce vide se place quelques éléments fondamentaux qui ne démentissent pas sur la mauvaise foie et l’inaction de Mage-Uqac envers les femmes. read full story / add a comment

A post-conference report from the Workers Solidarity Alliance's 2012 Gathering in St. Louis MO read full story / add a comment

La palabra, como medio para unificar las tendencias. La acción, como medio para restablecer los principios en la vida práctica.
Práxedis G. Guerrero

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