Oggi a Bologna si svolge un incontro sulla scorta di un appello, o meglio di una "proposta di lotta" come subito viene chiarito dagli estensori dello stesso, per un movimento anticapitalista e libertario.
L'ennesimo appello di una sinistra allo sbando che non sa più a che santo votarsi? Può essere.
L'ennesimo tentativo di creare un partitino per ex leaders in cerca di ricollocazione dopo i vari tsunami elettorali? Può essere. 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

All'indomani delle elezioni apparentemente più inutili della storia repubblicana, si aprono gli scenari più fantasiosi in un presente drammatico. Tutti si sono dimenticati del paese reale, quello delle fabbriche che continuano a chiudere, i bollettini ISTAT che parlano di un paese ormai alla canna del gas hanno assunto carattere di ritualità, i suicidi dei disoccupati e le stragi per finanziamenti negati sono in cronaca. Gli attori sociali tacciono, i media cicalecciano in attesa di capire quale coniglio uscirà dal cappello istituzionale. read full story / add a comment

O sistema capitalista de dominação e perpetuação da desigualdade em que vivemos, gerenciado pelo Estado, renova sempre suas formas de opressão, de exploração e de avanço do Capital. O Estado, através de ações governamentais, tem implantado medidas paliativas e pretensamente "populares", que contrariando o seu discurso de melhoria de vida e desenvolvimento econômico, traz inúmeras perdas às camadas mais pobres. read full story / add a comment

Compared to many places in Europe, the socio-political situation in Poland is quite tragic with nearly complete right-wing ideological hegemony and attacks on workers' rights and access to public services which go years beyond the reforms just being introduced in the rest of Euope. With little social response to it. As part of one of the few organized pockets of resistance, I try to focus and try to go forward, yet taking a sober look around, the forces that are gaining as the crisis worsens are from the right and extreme right, while the left flounders and the anti-authoritarian movement struggles to keep afloat during a period of social resignation. read full story / add a comment

On May Day, 2012, march as a Popular Front in Montpelier, Vermont in support of:
*Healthcare as a Human Right!
*The Right To Safe Local Farm Food!
*Justice For Migrant Farm Workers!
*The Right For Vermont Workers To Organize!
*The Right of Vermont's Daycare Providers To Organize!
*The Right To A Livable Wage!
*Save Our Post Offices!
*Abenaki/Native American Tribal Forests!
*Town Forests!
*Environmental Justice!
*Renewable Energy Now!
*Justice For Those Impacted By Hurricane Irene!
*Freedon and Unity!
*A People's Democray!
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This study is an anarchist criticism to “Occupy” which becomes popular as the activity of 99%. We discussed and looked into a new style of opposing with this study. We hope it will bu useful for all oppressed who are fighting against the power. [Türkçe] read full story / add a comment

Bu çalışma, “%99 etkinlikleri” olarak popülerleşen “occupy” üzerine anarşist bir eleştiri. Bu çalışmayla yeni bir muhalefet anlayışını araştırdık, tartıştık. Çalışmamızın, ezen-ezilen kavgasındaki tüm ezilenlere katkı sağlaması dileğiyle. [English] read full story / add a comment

Plusieurs personnes de Québec Solidaire semblent avoir été dérangées par le récent article du Cause Commune http://www.causecommune.net/publications/journal/33/des...niere, certains et certaines ont réagi avec fougue et passion, d'autres ont préféré répondre en nous adressant la critique. Nous sommes ravis du débat soulevé par ce court texte, car n'oublions pas que nos deux tendances sont irréconciliables et qu'il est normal et approprié de s'adresser la critique une fois de temps en temps. L'axe principal autour duquel portait notre article reposait sur la contradiction principale, à nos yeux, de la stratégie de «parti des urnes et de la rue» chère à QS. L'Union Communiste Libertaire voulait démontrer que la rue est lieu d'édification d'un rapport de force et que l'urne n'est que délégation de pouvoir, espoir et attentisme. read full story / add a comment

Occupy Wall Street has taken the nation by storm. It has spread to nearly every major metropolitan area in the country, attracting hundreds of thousands to its confrontational, directly democratic structure. Since its inception earlier this year, protests have steadily become more militant – beginning with the occupations of public parks, and moving on to attempted general strikes and direct attacks on the banks. read full story / add a comment

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

Então, sendo tal simpatia pelas ideias socialistas um lugar-comum, em praticamente todas as «democracias liberais», porque razão as pessoas continuam votando em partidos que não apenas executam um programa ao contrário dos anseios populares, como mesmo teorizam sobre a necessidade de contrariar essa visão socialista e igualitária? read full story / add a comment

Quizás, cuando el único interés es servir a una causa justa, no se necesita andar afinando la pluma, para no arruinar alguna futura transacción. read full story / add a comment

Nennen wir es das "Nahost-Syndrom": Sobald ein Artikel oder ähnliches mit den Worten "Israel", "Palästina" oder "Nahost" erscheint, beginnen die Köpfe, insbesondere die Impulskontrolle, der dazu Kommentierenden auszusetzen. Statt sich mit dem Thema auseinanderzusetzen werden Meinungen plump, als Wahrheiten getarnt und möglichst beleidigend gepostet. Wir wollen hier erarbeiten wieso. read full story / add a comment

Il collettivo del Centro Sociale Autogestito Kavarna e la Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici presentano una serata di discussione culturale autogestita sul tema: "L'anarchismo come modus operandi nel presente". L'incontro è fissato alle ore 21,15 al CSA Kavarna, via Maffi 2, Zona Cascinetto, per venerdì 17 dicembre. read full story / add a comment

Durante le proteste contro la finanziaria davanti a Dáil Éireann [camera dei deputati] il 7 dicembre 2010, Gregor Kerr ha pronunciato il seguente discorso a nome del Workers Solidarity Movement. Ricordando la necessità di contestare questa finanziaria, Kerr aggiunge che bisogna guardare oltre e sottolineare il fatto che il capitalismo in quanto modo di organizzare la società è moralmente e politicamente bancarotta. Se vogliamo assicurarci che questa crisi finanziaria, e la miseria economica che ha portato a milioni di lavoratori e lavoratrici in tutto il mondo, sia l'ultima allora occorre organizzarci, non per cambiare gli amministratori del capitalismo bensì per rovesciare il sistema capitalista e sostituirlo con un sistema che mette i bisogni dei molti al di sopra dell'avidità dei pochi. read full story / add a comment

Saguenay, Québec : Dans le cadre de son édition 2010, le Forum social régional 02(FSR02) accueillera en conférence d’ouverture le député conservateur de Roberval-Lac-St-Jean Denis Lebel, le député péquiste du comté de Roberval, Denis Trottier, ainsi que Clifford Moar, chef du conseil des Montagnais-aises du Lac-Saint-Jean. read full story / add a comment

La date du 4 septembre pour cette manifestation antiraciste unitaire, a été choisie parce qu’elle coïncide avec le 140e anniversaire de la fondation de la Troisième République qu’il faudrait « fêter », selon les initiateurs de l’appel « citoyen » : « Non à la politique du pilori ». read full story / add a comment

Rapport de TPTG sur les récentes manifestations à Athènes contre le plan d’austérité, y compris les événements qui ont conduit à la mort tragique de trois employés de la Marfin Bank et leurs conséquences pour le mouvement d’opposition à ces mesures. read full story / add a comment