Η απόρριψη του κουρέματος και άρα της δανειακής σύμβασης με τη τρόικα από την κυπριακή βουλή είναι σημαντική. Έχει τεθεί ένα όριο, έχουν σταλεί μηνύματα και έχει κερδηθεί κάποιος χρόνος μέσα από την προσωρινή ανατροπή (στην ουσία αναστολή) της επιχείρησης “σοκ και δέος” που δοκίμασαν κύκλοι της ευρωπαϊκής και ντόπιας αστικής τάξης. read full story / add a comment

Esta semana conmemoramos dos acontecimientos notables. El 18 de marzo se cumple el aniversario de la Comuna de París de 1871 y el 21 de marzo es el Newroz, año nuevo kurdo. Estos dos hechos sin aparente relación entre ellos, tienen ciertas cosas en común. read full story / add a comment

It has been over a month since the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) held their one-day protest of the provincial Liberal Party leadership convention, mobilizing some 15,000 people on the streets of Toronto and then sending them all home again around 4:00 PM. The protest was part of the trade union response to Bill 115, which enabled the provincial government to circumvent collective bargaining and mandate the terms of new “collective agreements”. [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

Le rituel est connu : dès que les opprimé-e-s se révoltent, ils et elles sont qualifiés d’ « extrémistes » de « violents » et sont infantilisés par des journalistes. Les patrons voyous, les flics ripoux, les hommes ou femmes politiques corrompus n’ont pas droit au même traitement médiatique, loin de là ! read full story / add a comment

The government says if we Vote no to Croke Park they will impose it anyway. Many of the union leadership try and scare us into voting Yes with this threat and by saying the only alternative is strike action. Both are right. If we just vote no than the government will attack us. And when they do the only way we can win is if we are willing to fight back - that will mean industrial action. It will almost certainly mean at least the credible threat of an indefinite strike. read full story / add a comment

Οι Mujeres Libres γεννήθηκαν με σκοπό την πλήρη ενσωμάτωση των γυναικών στον αγώνα για απελευθέρωση, μετά από πρωτοβουλία τριών αναρχικών γυναικών: από τη συγγραφέα Lucia Sanchez Saornil, τη δημοσιογράφο Mercedes Comaposada και τη γιατρό Amparo Poch y Gascon. read full story / add a comment

Una constitución expresa la correlación de fuerzas en una sociedad. Si bien existe una recomposición del campo social en el país que se expresa en las distintas protestas de los últimos años, en este momento esa correlación de fuerzas no es favorable como para hegemonizar una asamblea constituyente. read full story / add a comment

“Los jóvenes se sienten molestos en la estrechez dogmática de nuestro movimiento. La Anarquía es una cosa más inteligente y más seriamente hermosa que la Arcadia a lo Jean Grave, grata a la mayoría de los compañeros…. Mi revisionismo es una pequeña reforma de método, el cual, en sus líneas fundamentales me parece que debe ser confirmado por los hechos… Yo soy un estudioso y un curioso del pensamiento de los otros, consciente de la complejidad de los problemas e insatisfecho de las soluciones simplistas…” read full story / add a comment

Las reiteradas modificaciones llevadas a cabo últimamente de la regulación del contrato laboral de Formación y aprendizaje, junto al inicio de la implementación de la llamada Formación Profesional, atacan las condiciones laborales de los jóvenes. read full story / add a comment

Hoje, o imaginário dos de baixo é mais rico, contém muitas experiências-primas e cruas, e a sua subjetividade é ao mesmo tempo mais complexa. Contém elementos de rebeldia e compreensão geral da injustiça que o rodeia. E assim, por vezes, ganha as ruas. Além disso, sempre resulta mais proveitoso que se esteja participando dos eventos sociais do que esteja em um estado de resignação e alheio ao seu entorno. Como estará o imaginário dos de baixo na Venezuela, quando muito se falou do Poder Popular, quando muito se falou sobre o imperialismo, quando certas formas de participação social têm sido eficazes? O que sabemos é que o quietismo e a resignação não produzem nenhum grau de resistência, a possibilidade está na ação política social real, por mais contraditória e confuso que seja. read full story / add a comment

Sabato 16 marzo i ciprioti si sono svegliati con la notizia di essere in procinto di essere derubati. Con un agguato pre-programmato e pianificato per concidere con un weekend di vacanza delle banche locali, i burocrati dell'Eurozona hanno minacciato di bancarotta il sistema bancario cipriota facendo paventare un ritiro immediato del supporto di liquidità da parte della BCE. [English] read full story / add a comment

Editorial del nº 15 del periódico libertario chileno "Solidaridad", marzo-abril de 2013 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

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

O pastor e deputado federal pelo PSC de São Paulo, Marco Feliciano, tem trajetória no mínimo polêmica e é alvo da revolta de grupos de defesa dos DDHH e movimentos reivindicatórios. 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

Miles de personas convocadas a la Marcha por la Vida por la Red de Resistencias Autónomas Anticapitalistas (RRAA) salieron desde el Ángel de la Independencia para el Zócalo el miércoles 13 de marzo mientras actividades solidarias se realizaban en otros 20 estados de la República. read full story / add a comment

A verdade dura e crua é que, sem a pressão da Venezuela, o Brasil teria aceitado os planos da Área de Livre Comércio para as Américas (ALCA) e, fatalmente, seríamos sócios minoritários dos EUA na aliança. read full story / add a comment