Un tract anarchiste distribué lors d'une conférence à New-York de la International Socialist Organization (ISO) critiquant ses positions trotskistes. read full story / add a comment

Προκήρυξη ενάντια στις παρελάσεις και τον εθνικισμό που μοιράστηκε στη Χαλκίδα στις 27 και 28/10/11. read full story / add a comment

It is sometimes said that while anti-capitalist and alternative globalization movements are clear on what we do not want, we are less clear on what we do want (socialism, anarchism, specifics). Certainly, recent movements have not been as effective as their predecessors (labor in the 1910s and ‘30s; the social movements of the ‘60s and ‘70s) in sustaining the sorts of practices – intellectual and material – that put into effect aspects of the alternative world we seek. My colleague Alan Sears attributes this current inability to a decline in what he calls “infrastructures of dissent” or what I prefer to call “infrastructures of resistance.” As anti-capitalist movements face possibilities of growth, as happened after Seattle in 1999, questions of organization and the relation of various activities to each other and to broader movements for social change can only become more urgent. Yet, the absence of durable organizations or institutions, formal or informal, rooted in working-class organizations and communities, makes for demoralization or a retreat into subculturalism, as has happened to many of the alternative globalization groups. We now face a pressing need to rebuild “infrastructures of resistance” that might sustain not only activists and organizers, but especially the poor and working-class people who are being disastrously impacted by the current crisis. read full story / add a comment

An Irish anarchist perspective on today's EU crisis summit decision to reduce Greek debt by 50%, in the face of the recent resistance by the Greek working class. Particularly as contrasted with the differing levels of resistence in Ireland and the corresponding dictat of making the people of Ireland pay 100% of the debts incurred in the Irish property boom casino by globalised finance. read full story / add a comment

A light-hearted look at today's Irish presidential election comparing it, unfavourably, to a reality TV programme popular in Ireland and Britain where viewers phone in to vote for their favourite entertainers. read full story / add a comment

Un mouvement est né. À travers les États-Unis et le monde, les occupations se sont propagées. Nous sommes témoins de la beauté et de la lutte d’un nouveau protagoniste joignant le combat contre l’oppression et l’exploitation.

La crise nourrit le conflit : le pillage des communautés galvanise les gens de la Grèce au Chili, du Bangladesh à la Chine, des États-Unis à l’Espagne. Une vague massive d’appauvrissement, de perte d’emploi, d’austérité et de vol des ressources a été déchaînée par le Capital, les gouvernements et les riches. Nous faisons face à la perte de nos emplois, de nos domiciles et d’une façon de vivre, avec aucune avenue pour contester ces problèmes à l’intérieur des institutions du pouvoir. Les portes sont fermées. Les futurs sont volés.

Les nouveaux et nouvelles appauvri-e-s, les étudiant-e-s dont les espoirs ont été anéantis par une vie de dette et de chômage, les vétérans retournant d’une guerre infernale pour être rejetés, les travailleurs et travailleuses faisant face à une augmentation de la cadence de travail et aux coupures partout, les familles déplacées et attaquées par la réaction anti-immigrante, les malades sans accès aux soins, les gens forcés hors de leur domicile : nous sommes les indigné-e-s. Alors que les restructurations économiques créent de nouvelles opportunités de piler la richesse par-dessus plus de richesse et d’entasser la pauvreté par-dessus la pauvreté, de nouveaux et nouvelles protagonistes sortent dans les rues. La classe ouvrière se recompose : les puissant-e-s forcent des changements dans nos vies, et nous répondons avec de nouvelles luttes, de nouvelles revendications et de nouveaux rapports sociaux – un nouveau combat social. [English] read full story / add a comment

Dale Farm est le site qui abrite le plus de Travellers irlandais en Grande-Bretagne, en tout plus de 1.000 personnes y vivent ( à peu près 100 familles), dont on dit que la plupart sont originaires de Rathkeale près de Limerick. Le site fut inauguré dans les années 1960, au moment où plusieurs familles achetèrent le terrain de l’ancienne casse automobile et où la mairie de Basildon accorda des permis de construire pour 40 maisons. Cela eut lieu dans une conjoncture où des progrès certains avaient lieu dans le domaine des rapports raciaux et où passait une petite brise de tolérance officielle envers les Travellers, qui aboutit à la loi de 1968 sur les sites pour caravanes, promue par les libéraux. Aujourd’hui, la mairie de Basildon a rassemblé la somme de 18 millions de £ pour ratiboiser le site au bulldozer et expulser par la force les familles (un chiffre consternant si on le compare au budget total du Royaume-Uni pour l’aménagement des sites pour nomades, qui est de moins de 30 millions). [English] read full story / add a comment

Dale Farm is a halting site  which is also the largest concentration of Irish Travellers in Britain, being home to over 1000 people (about 100 families), many of whom are said to have their cultural roots in Rathkeale in Limerick.  It was started in the 1960s when a number of families bought the former scrapyard site and Basildon council granted planning permission for 40 houses. This happened in the context of broad progress in race relations and a brief breeze of relative official tolerance for Travellers, epitomised in  the liberal-sponsored 1968 Caravan Sites Act.  Basildon Council have put aside an £18 million budget to bulldoze the site and forcefully evict the families (a staggering figure when you consider that in 2010 the total UK budget for providing Travellers with halting facilities was less than 30 million). [Français] read full story / add a comment

Artigo Editorial do informativo LIBERA 150.

O anarquismo enquanto uma ideologia, ou seja, um sistema de idéias e valores que possui relação direta com a prática política e a transformação revolucionária; aporta no Brasil com os imigrantes, mas se consolida como uma ferramenta de luta dos trabalhadores “nativos”. Aqui, a estratégia política anarquista para os sindicatos, o sindicalismo revolucionário torna-se a principal metodologia adotada pelos operários nos principais centros industriais do país. read full story / add a comment

The sudden end of the Gaddafi regime some 6 months after the start of the Libyan revolt leaves some difficult questions unanswered for the left. Gaddafi’s determination to physically crush the revolt quickly transformed it into a civil war, a civil war that saw considerable imperialist intervention on the rebel side, intervention that was essential to their eventual victory. This and Gaddafi’s historic record led to some on the left taking his side in the civil war while other organisations tried to balance support for the ‘Arab spring’s’ arrival in Libya with opposition to imperialism. [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

Il problema del debito pubblico è un falso problema. Se c'è debito, vuol dire che altri hanno un credito. La non restituzione del debito diventa dunque un problema per chi lo ha finanziato. Per gli Stati non esiste il problema di essere oggetto di intervento dei tribunali per riscossione coattiva, esiste solo il problema di rinnovare il debito e di garantire il pagamento degli interessi annuali... read full story / add a comment

La vérité est que l’aspect inhabituel de l’émergence des révolutions arabes a grandement surpris. En effet ces soulèvements ont éclaté selon des modalités totalement différentes de celles définies classiquement par l’idéologie adoptée par la gauche arabe ou l’élite arabe. read full story / add a comment

A reflection on state repression of popular struggles in South Africa in the wake of the full aquittal of the Kennedy 12 (Abahlali baseMjondolo political prisoners). read full story / add a comment

I och med att propagandaskriften ‹‹Syndikalisternas nya ansikte›› delades ut till makthavare och ledarskribenter i Almedalen har ännu ett drev mot fackförbundet SAC tagit fart. Det finns många som kommenterat detta ur olika vinklar de senaste dagarna. Bland annat genom att påpeka författarnas bakgrund som (Socialdemokratiska) lobbyister i fackliga konflikter för näringslivets räkning. Jag ska inte ge mig in på det spåret, inte heller ämnar jag kommentera bokens innehåll som sådant i recenserande form. Jag har läst den och skulle, som utomstående intressent, kunna påpeka en mängd saker som direkt underminerar möjligheten att överhuvudtaget kalla boken för journalistisk, granskande. Men jag tänker faktiskt lämna allt det detta därhän. Istället nöjer jag mig med att bifoga en länksamling i slutet av detta inlägg med väl skrivna artiklar, blogginlägg och debattsvar som tillsammans ger en saklig bild kring en rad av författarnas sakpåståenden, såväl som bakgrund. read full story / add a comment

La storia dell'uomo non ha subito cosi tanti cambiamenti ambientali e sociali come negli ultimi sessanta anni. Cambiamenti che ci stanno portando verso conseguenze gravissime da cui sarà molto difficile, o forse impossibile, tornare indietro. Possiamo farci un idea della situazione; immaginiamo il Mondo come una gigantesca bomba ad orologeria, con tanto di timer che scandisce il conto alla rovescia. Come sappiamo da diversi studi la vita del nostro pianeta non è eterna, ma ha una durata ben precisa!
Noi di certo non possiamo arrestare questo processo, che è nella natura delle cose, possiamo però evitare di accelerarlo.
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La FIAT costituisce una nuova società, la Fabbrica Italia, e con questa apre un nuovo soggetto imprenditoriale totalmente libero da precedenti obblighi rispetto ai precedenti contratti lavorativi. I lavoratori li licenzia per poi riassumerli senza continuità. read full story / add a comment

The euro zone crisis, and the mainstream opinion formers’ response to it, raises the question of nationalistic understandings of the way the world works, and how these understandings frame our perception of where our interests lie. read full story / add a comment

[...] o imperialismo dominante está a afundar os seus «aliados», numa tentativa desesperada de evitar que aumente ainda mais o apelo que tem o euro, o qual tem vindo a ser mais e mais preferido internacionalmente em muitos intercâmbios, financeiros e comerciais. read full story / add a comment

Dichiarazione e riflessioni di Roberto Martelli, Segretario nazionale generale della Confederazione Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI, fondata nel 1912).
"L'accordo interconfederale CGIL-CISL-UIL-Confindustria vuole rappresentare òa conferma della complicità come patto regolatore delle relazioni sindacali industriali non fermerà il conflitto sociale nei luoghi di lavoro e l'autorganizzazione dal basso di lavoratrici e lavoratori" read full story / add a comment

The cracks beneath the surface in the peace process were once again exposed on the streets of East Belfast last night in the second night of serious sectarian rioting. A UVF led mob numbering in the 100's has been engaged in attacks on catholic homes at the edge of the Short Strand. This is the reality of a peace dividend which has failed to deliver to working-class communities and stands in stark contrast to suburbia only 5 miles away which produced golf champion Rory McElroy.
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