Aujourd'hui, dimanche, avril 21, 2013, des militant-e-s du collectif anarchiste LaCommune (UCL-Montréal) ont distribué 600 tracts de ce texte. ... read full story / add a comment

On the eve of International Women’s Day, so-called men’s rights advocates at the University of Toronto hosted an event confronting women’s studies and academic feminism. This was a follow-up to their event in November featuring self-proclaimed ex-feminist Warren Farrell, author of the book the Myth of Male Power. Warren Farrell is best known for his statements about women making false accusations of rape and his argument that incest can be a positive experience, if only women were not socialized to be victims. ... read full story / add a comment

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

E' passato più di un mese da quando la Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) ha tenuto una giornata di protesta in occasione della convention provinciale per la guida del Liberal Party, mobilitando almeno 15000 persone per le strade di Toronto fino alle 16.00. La protesta era la risposta sindacale al Disegno di Legge 115, con cui si autorizza il governo provinciale ad eludere la contrattazione collettiva e ad aprire i termini per nuovi "accordi collettivi". [English] ... 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

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

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

Ministros de la Primera Sala de la Suprema Corte rechazan el caso del profesor tzotzil ... read full story / add a comment

"We shall carry out all possible reforms in the spirit in which an army advances ever forwards by snatching the enemy-occupied territory in its path." - Errico Malatesta(1) ... read full story / add a comment

Hemos gastado nuestros días buscando la potencia entre las ruinas y la chatarra, pero finalmente nos hemos dado cuenta que no era ahí donde debíamos buscar. Lo que perseguimos no pude habitar en este mundo miserable que no es nuestro, y cuyo entorno es una “snuff-movie” eternamente en “play”. Su esbozo se encuentra acá, en una estrella a punto de estallar que cada uno de nosotros lleva sobre sus hombros. Podemos afirmar que ahora, que hemos perdido un mundo entero y maldecimos con toda la fuerza de nuestras almas, nos encontramos en disposición de conquistar uno nuevo, uno propio.
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Para muchos el vaticinio maya del fin del mundo resultaba preferible al también anunciado regreso del PRI. Un apocalipsis por demás rebasado por los trágicos resultados de los dos sexenios presidenciales de la extrema derecha que dejan un saldo de más de 80 mil muertos, 25 mil desaparecidos, 250 mil desplazados y a 50 millones de seres humanos de los 123 que tienen el infortunio de habitar el país en la pobreza más indigna. ... read full story / add a comment

For Black History Month: In 1941, the African-American labor leader, A. Philip Randolph made a call for a national demonstration by African-Americans in Washington, D.C. The demonstration never occurred, because of sabotage by White and Black liberals. But the organizing for it, and the movement behind it, continuing during World War II, had a big impact on U.S. Black people. It was an important influence preparing for the Civil Rights and Black Liberation struggles of the 1950s and ‘60s. ... read full story / add a comment

In the housing defense movement, we often get bogged down in legal approaches and the banking fraud we use as leverage. But what about situations when it is merely a lack of funds for the person living in the home? It is at those moments that you see the most crucial element of the struggle, and how you can use this organizing to transform the conversation about housing. ... read full story / add a comment

Artigo do membro da ‘Rochester Red & Black and Common Struggle’ evidenciando a importância de uma organização anarquista, unitária e classista, a ser proposta numa conferência em fevereiro de 2013, com foco na potencial formação de tal grupo. [English] ... read full story / add a comment

Esta crónica narra la violencia de la cual son objeto l@s migrantes centroamerican@s en México. Dicha violencia se profundiza si además de ser migrantes son lesbianas, gays o trans. ... read full story / add a comment

Los mayas zapatistas organizados en el EZLN volvieron sobre sus pasos de 1994, y esta vez sin armas, el 21 de diciembre pasado, se tomaron simultáneamente las cinco ciudades del inicio de su movimiento: San Cristóbal de las Casas, Altamirano, Las Margaritas, Palenque y Ocosingo. ... read full story / add a comment

These are the points of unity for the entire collective, reflecting the ideas that inform our organizing work. ... read full story / add a comment

How do we move beyond movement moments, and start taking strategic advantage of the moment in such a way that strengthens our efforts decades down the road? Did we gain strength from involvement in the Occupy Wall Street movement, or not? Is the idea of Occupy Wall Street a short-sighted route to building mass revolutionary movements? ... read full story / add a comment

Ένα άρθρο ενός μέλους των Red & Black του Ρότσεστερ και της Common Cause (Κοινή Πάλη) για το θέμα μιας ενιαίας αναρχικής οργάνωσης ταξικής πάλης που θα τεθεί σε ένα συνέδριο το Φεβρουάριο του 2013 και επικεντρώνεται στη δυνατότητα σχηματισμού ακριβώς μιας τέτοιας οργάνωσης. ... read full story / add a comment