Entrevista a Henry Boisrolin, del Comité Democrático Haitiano ... read full story / add a comment

In 1934, the political situation in France was tense and uncertain. The year began with a mobilization of royalist and fascist militias (on February 6) that were followed immediately (on February 9 and 12) by a response from the Communist and Socialist wings of the workers movement. As Norbert Guterman and Henri Lefebvre reported, “all these men are ready for the concrete liberation a revolution would bring – and perhaps also, unfortunately, the mystique and brutal mythology of the fascists” (1999 [1936], 143, trans. SK). When these lines were written in the mid-1930s, France was experiencing a rising tide of grassroots anti-fascist politics culminating in the strike waves of the early days of the Popular Front government. Yet Lefebvre and Guterman’s warning was well-placed. The Popular Front disintegrated due to many contradictions, ultimately giving rise to Marshall Pétain’s collaborationist administration, France’s contribution to fascist regime politics. ... read full story / add a comment

I am glad that the media noticed my brief Twitter take on the situation in France, my adopted country, which has been experiencing a series of mass protests in the last few weeks. ... read full story / add a comment

In this issue, which is online and freely distributed, you’ll find a translation from English to Dutch of a journal article about how a moral panic was generated to enforce the criminalisation of squatting in the Netherlands and a translation to French of a brief text about migration on Idomeni in Greece, near to Macedonia, which was previously published in Trespass 2 in Italian. As interventions in five languages, we have an analysis of the lack of support to the ZAD in Brittany, plus short pieces about the opening of a new anarchist social centre in the Paris suburbs, community resistance to preserve a park in London, the demolition of a community gym in Athens, an (unsuccessful) eviction threat in Catania, and an eviction in Catalonia. And a report on the resquat of the watertower in Utrecht! There’s plenty more news and analysis on this website.
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Franck Gaudichaud es historiador y académico de la Universidad de Grenoble Alpes, Francia. Ha estudiado al movimiento obrero en Chile desde hace muchos años, destacando su trabajo en español más reciente sobre las distintas formas de autonomía popular en el gobierno de Salvador Allende (“Chile 1970-1973. Mil días que estremecieron al mundo”, Lom, 2016). Desde hace algunos años ha trabajado la historia reciente del movimiento obrero de los trabajadores portuarios de Chile. Conversó con ROSA en esta extensa entrevista. ... read full story / add a comment

Este noviembre los movimientos de resistencia al trumpismo en EE. UU. tendrán su primera cita electoral nacional: las elecciones de medio término. En el contexto preelectoral, la victoria de diversas candidaturas rupturistas en las primarias del partido Demócrata ha generado muchas expectativas, algunas de las cuales se identifican abiertamente como socialistas, como es el caso de la candidata al Congreso Alexandria Ocasio. Todo apunta a que sectores importantes de la población consideran necesario no sólo ganar al partido Republicano, sino también echar a los demócratas establishment. ... read full story / add a comment

Days of protests in Iran have caught statesmen, analysts and observers by surprise, even though the anti-austerity and anti-establishment sentiments behind this primarily working-class revolt have been brewing for years. All the same, surprise is not a common reaction across the media. An early analysis offered in a tweet by the popular and self-styled Marxist pundit, Ali Alizadeh, captures a sentiment which is common across an array of responses to these events from individuals and groups as disparate, in both aim and ideas, as the Iranian reformists, the Iranian postcolonial left, and middle class Iranians both inside and outside Iran. Alizadeh asks: “Do you realize that it is because [the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI)] is secured and external threats [to Iran’s national security] have been minimized [by the policies of the IRI], that the right to protest [inside Iran] is now recognized [by the IRI government]?…[This is why I] insist that [regional] security is the prerequisite to everything else, including [civil, political and personal] freedoms.” ... read full story / add a comment

The protests against the high cost of living in the cities of Khorasan province on December 28th soon spread to many cities of Iran incredibly quick and almost turned into a revolt within a week. The protests primarily targeted the high cost of living, financial difficulties and corruption. However, they quickly became politicized and began to target the foundations of the Islamic Republic (IR), namely the religious autocracy. The slogans quickly turned from “death to high cost of living” to “death to the dictator.” ... read full story / add a comment

The City of Tampa is rewriting a homophobic bathhouse ordinance to now criminalize sex workers. Please call and email city council members to oppose the criminalization of sex workers and stop the homophobic bathhouse ordinance. ... read full story / add a comment

The Free State Housing Campaign started door to door work in 3 wards (367 RDP households) in Kroonstad, Free State, and a mass meeting was held in each ward and then a mass march in Kroonstad. All this led to a broadening of the campaign as expressed in well over a thousand residents marching in Kroonstad and putting their demands very clearly to various government departments giving them 7 days to respond. At a report-back meeting held on Sunday 11th June there was extreme anger at Governments response and well “the shit and the ‘gatvol’ factor hit the fan” when the community marched in the township and were attacked by the police. 16 activists were jailed, charged with public violence and eventually released. This is a call for solidarity to contribute no matter how small or big to this struggle. ... read full story / add a comment

Am 8. März, zum Frauen*kampftag, fand in Karl-Marx-Stadt eine Solidaritätsdemo für die neu gegründete GG/BO Sektion statt. Vom Hauptbahnhof an liefen circa 170 Teilnehmer*innen durch Chemnitz, um sich am Ende der Route vor dem Chemnitzer Frauen*-Knast zu sammeln, wo neben lautstarken Solidaritätsbekundungen auch viele tolle Redebeiträge zu hören waren. Darunter verlesene Briefe anderer Inhaftierter, die ebenfalls in der Gefangengewerkschaft aktiv sind, Beiträge feministischer Gruppen und Einzelpersonen. Auch dieser Beitrag wurde vor Ort vorgetragen. Er ist von uns als FAU Sektion Chemnitz, die zusammen mit vielen anderen Ortgruppen und Syndikaten an diesem Tag vertreten war.
Denn: Unverträgliche Gewerkschaften sollten zusammenhalten, genau so wie wir auch die sozialen Kämpfe auf dem Weg in die befreite Gesellschaft nur gemeinsam gewinnen können. In diesem Gedanken steht auch der hier veröffentlichte Redebeitrag.

GG/BO=Gefangengewerkschaft bundesweite Organisation [http://ggbo.de/]

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La nuova emigrazione dei giovani dall'Irpinia, tra le varie conseguenze, ha comportato una desertificazione del territorio, ma soprattutto l'abbandono di ogni speranza di cambiamento e, dunque, il sedimentarsi di una mentalità sempre più fatalistica... ... read full story / add a comment

Una decisión urgida por las dilaciones oficiales. La Cumbre Agraria, Campesina, Étnica y Popular (Cacep), espacio de convergencia que reúne a diferentes procesos agrarios* tomó el pasado 27 de abril la decisión de declararse en asamblea permanente, exigiendo del Presidente de la República el inicio de una etapa de evaluación, balance y rendición de cuentas, debido a los incumplimientos y alargues en el proceso de negociación con la Mesa Única de Nacional, al tiempo que convoca a sus organizaciones de base a una asamblea de delegados para el próximo 13 de mayo en la ciudad de Bogotá, para definir el rumbo inmediato de la negociación, así como el camino que deberá tomar este espacio de convergencia a un año de su creación. ... read full story / add a comment

A pesar del miedo que imprimieron algunos medios de comunicación del orden regional de que había inseguridad en el sur del Tolima por supuestas acciones de la guerrilla y la lluvia pertinaz, cerca de cuatro mil campesinos se movilizaron por las principales calles del municipio de Planadas (Tolima), rechazando decididamente la presencia en la zona de las multinacionales y transnacionales que amenazan con robarse las innumerables riquezas de esta vasta región del país. ... read full story / add a comment

El primer Encuentro de Líderes y Lideresas de la Asociación Agroambiental Colombiana Camilo Rodríguez Restrepo, se llevó a cabo en el municipio del Líbano, Norte del Tolima. Un espacio de reencuentro, discusión y proyección política del campesinado de la región. ... read full story / add a comment

Por convocatoria de la Asociación Campesina del Catatumbo, 59 campesinos y campesinas provenientes de 24 veredas y sectores de los municipios de Hacarí nos hemos reunido en Audiencia Popular en el corregimiento de San José del Tarra, municipio de Hacarí, con el ánimo de discutir y deliberar sobre los siguientes temas: ... read full story / add a comment

Many labour unions are either in the process of negotiating with their respective employers (mostly municipal, state, or federal governments) in Brazil, while others are actively on strike. These include federal workers from the government bureaucracy, school teachers, city staff, and university staff and faculty. In this piece, I would like to highlight how unions in the transportation sector are highly represented in these labour struggles. The Metro Workers Union of São Paulo is one of them and as of Monday, the 9th of June, it faces its fifth day of strike amidst layoff threats and a repressive state military police. Shortly before, the bus drivers of the city of São Paulo, represented by two unions, were also on strike. In both cases, the judiciary found the strikes to be ‘abusive’ and fined the unions hundreds of thousands of reais after ordering the workers back to their posts. The Metro Workers decided to continue the strike, with the support of a variety of social movements (including the Free Fare Movement – MPL, and the Homeless Workers' Movement – MTST), political parties from the radical Left, and other labour unions. The judicial decision is being challenged for many reasons, but primarily for the fact that it is fuelled by illegalities committed on behalf of the employer that lead to the disavowal of the right to strike.[1] ... read full story / add a comment

En mayo se movilizará la Cumbre Agraria y Popular, mientras que las “dignidades” pararán el 28 de abril. ... read full story / add a comment

El corregimiento Brisas, de El Patía (Cauca), acogió a unas 1.500 personas durante dos días para sembrar, cosechar y cultivar ideas en torno a la coca, sus usos, las alternativas para “sembrar esperanza, porque la coca representa la vida misma del campesinado”, afirmó uno de los lideres de la zona. ... read full story / add a comment

Diálogos con el gobierno siguen sin avances. El movimiento campesino reitera su rechazo al “Pacto Agrario” de Santos y se prepara para converger en la gran Cumbre Agraria. ... read full story / add a comment