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mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Saturday February 08, 2020 - 22:27 by Andrew G Jones 2 comments (last - tuesday january 30, 2024 - 08:18)
A US strike which killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad in January, and the counter-strike by the Iranian military on US targets in Iraq, raised serious questions about the legitimate use of force. When military force was used against targets within its territory, Iraq’s sovereignty was breached. ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Monday February 03, 2020 - 20:22 by Alan Macleod 1 comment (last - sunday march 17, 2024 - 19:23)
The three sites chosen for the news bases, Erbin, Sulimania and Halabja are all extremely close to Iran, with Halabja just eight miles from its border. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history of anarchism / other libertarian press Friday January 31, 2020 - 19:04 by KSL
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 100-101, January 2020 [Double issue] has just been posted on our site. ... read full story / add a comment
france / belgium / luxemburg / workplace struggles / non-anarchist press Thursday January 16, 2020 - 06:59 by Richard Greeman 1 comment (last - tuesday march 19, 2024 - 17:32)
The nationwide general strike in France, now entering its record seventh week, seems to be approaching its crisis point. Despite savage police repression, about a million people are in the streets protesting President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed neoliberal “reform” of France’s retirement system, established at the end of World War II and considered one of the best in the world. At bottom, what is at stake is a whole vision of what kind of society people want to live in – one based on cold market calculation or one based on human solidarity – and neither side shows any sign of willingness to compromise. ... read full story / add a comment
international / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Saturday January 04, 2020 - 20:16 by Ed Pilkington 3 comments (last - tuesday march 26, 2024 - 19:07)
There has been no shortage of US attempts to remove foreign adversaries through highly dubious legal or ethical means. ... read full story / add a comment
south-east asia / history / non-anarchist press Tuesday December 31, 2019 - 05:37 by Sameer Pandey 2 comments (last - monday march 25, 2024 - 20:03)
Historically labour has always found itself at the unfortunate end of the table, denied the fruits of
its labour. Organised labour has, therefore, always tried to alter the balance of power in society.
Sometimes unions have attempting to align with state power, to try push it towards the side of
the workers. Sometimes unions have instead developed organisational strategies that look
beyond state power. In India, as elsewhere, “political unionism” – where unions support a
political party aiming at state power – has been very common.
This short article will critically discuss the history of “political unionism” in India. It will argue
the need for a change in the strategic outlook of unions, towards working outside the state,
building movements that refuse to participate in the state but aim instead to pressure it for reform
where possible, through bottom-up mobilisation. ... read full story / add a comment
argentina/uruguay/paraguay / workplace struggles / other libertarian press Tuesday December 31, 2019 - 01:37 by Confederación General del Trabajo
Desde la CGT defendemos los Servicios Públicos de calidad para todas las personas, así como el empleo estable, digno y compatible con la vida personal. Es por ello que apoyamos las movilizaciones de las trabajadoras y trabajadores que desempeñan sus funciones en los Servicios Públicos Municipales en Rosario (Argentina) hasta que no sean recibidos por la municipalidad con soluciones concretas. ... read full story / add a comment
southern asia / anti-fascism / non-anarchist press Friday December 27, 2019 - 21:58 by Vijay Prashad 2 comments (last - thursday march 14, 2024 - 18:10)
Every day and in every part of India, hundreds of thousands of people – mainly young people – gather on the streets to express their anger at the government. Their protests, like those of the protests in Chile, emerged out of one particular grievance but then have cascaded outward. They are angry at the government’s attempt to define citizenship in a narrow and bigoted way; but they are also angry at the arrogance of the government and at the disastrous way in which the government has managed the economy. ... read full story / add a comment
southern asia / anti-fascism / non-anarchist press Friday December 27, 2019 - 03:29 by Vijay Prashad
On December 13, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights released a powerful statement that criticized India’s new citizenship law. This “fundamentally discriminatory” Citizenship (Amendment) Act of 2019 would expedite citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from India’s neighboring countries. But in the list of those minorities, it names only Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians. It does not mention Muslims, despite the fact that there have been several important cases of Muslims being persecuted in Pakistan (the Ahmadis), in Afghanistan (the Hazaras), and in Myanmar (the Rohingya). The UN said that not only does this law violate India’s obligations to conventions, treaties, and compacts that it has signed at the global level, but also that it is in violation of its own constitution. ... read full story / add a comment
ireland / britain / migration / racism / non-anarchist press Thursday December 12, 2019 - 19:26 by Leo Panitch
The vilification of the leader of the UK Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, as an antisemite has intensified in the run up to the December 12 election in Britain. What makes this especially troubling, not to say bizarre, is that since he first became a member of parliament in 1983 Corbyn has been the most consistent campaigner against all forms of racism. ... read full story / add a comment
bolivia / peru / ecuador / chile / anti-fascism / non-anarchist press Saturday November 30, 2019 - 00:23 by Robert Cavooris
Regarding recent events in Bolivia, some things are simple: Was it a coup? Yes. On Sunday, November 10, the commander-in-chief of Bolivia’s armed forces, General Williams Kaliman, publicly told Evo Morales, a constitutionally elected president, that he ought to resign for the good of the country. There is no other name for this kind of thing. Even if Evo had been officially accused of legal wrongdoing – he had not – this procedure of removal is unconstitutional. The resignation took place under an unstated threat of violence. Bolivia’s history gives reason to take this threat seriously: military coups and counter-coups were a decisive feature of political life throughout the twentieth century. And considering that the police, two days before the general’s intervention, had already decided to allow anti-government protestors to commit violence against the homes and family-members of supporters of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party, to which Evo belongs, Kaliman’s remarks carried weight well beyond a “suggestion.” ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Saturday November 09, 2019 - 18:08 by Robert Fisk 1 comment (last - tuesday march 19, 2024 - 16:23)
That wars end very differently to our own expectations – or our plans – was established long ago. That “we” won the Second World War did not mean the Americans would win the Vietnam war, or that France would vanquish its enemies in Algeria. Yet the moment we decide who the good guys are, and who the evil monsters whom we must destroy, we relapse again into our old mistakes. ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Monday October 14, 2019 - 21:23 by Simon Jenkins
The president’s motive for abandoning the Kurds is unclear, but the continued US presence in foreign wars is a disaster. ... read full story / add a comment
brazil/guyana/suriname/fguiana / medio ambiente / other libertarian press Tuesday September 10, 2019 - 02:04 by El Mirlo Pardo 1 image
Expandir fronteras agroganaderas mediante la quema de un cierto territorio (técnica de rose y quema) es una práctica antigua y recurrente en muchas culturas a lo largo de la historia. Usualmente se la considera una técnica “primitiva”, propia de aquellas sociedades mal llamadas “de economía de subsistencia” . No obstante, paradójicamente, es dentro del capitalismo moderno donde esta técnica ha tomado dimensiones desproporcionadas que han provocado la destrucción irreversible de ecosistemas así como el masivo etnocidio hacia pueblos indígenas que viven dentro de aquellos territorios deseados por la burguesía rural y el Estado. ... read full story / add a comment
southern asia / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Tuesday August 13, 2019 - 18:59 by John Riddell
On August 5, India’s Hindu nationalist government unilaterally revoked the autonomy of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, while flooding the region with troops, imposing a curfew, and shutting down all communications. The state is to be broken in two, with the eastern portion (Ladakh) under direct rule by New Delhi. ... read full story / add a comment
international / history of anarchism / other libertarian press Friday August 09, 2019 - 03:00 by KSL
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 99, July 2019 has just been posted on our site. The PDF is up at: https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/00013n ... read full story / add a comment
north america / mexico / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Monday June 24, 2019 - 04:13 by Vijay Prashad
Canada’s embassy in Venezuela has just been closed. The spur for this closure is an open attempt by Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to overthrow Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. Canada is one of the leaders of the Lima Group, a network of countries that came together in 2017 with the express purpose of regime change in Venezuela. Canada’s diplomatic corps has played the role of facilitator for the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Trudeau and Guaidó speak regularly. Their plot against Venezuela thickens. ... read full story / add a comment
north america / mexico / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Friday June 21, 2019 - 01:47 by Justin Podur
After withdrawing from the nuclear deal with Iran last year and resuming sanctions last November, the White House in April announced that its goal was to “drive Iranian exports to zero.” To make this drive happen, the White House stopped allowing countries like India, China, Japan, Turkey, and South Korea to import Iranian oil: dictating to sovereign countries whom they can trade with. ... read full story / add a comment
iberia / movimento anarquista / other libertarian press Friday May 17, 2019 - 02:58 by Pedro Wandelli Góis 2 comments (last - wednesday august 02, 2023 - 13:46)
Ao longo deste ensaio, desenvolverei o conceito de “Sistemas de Poder” ou “Sistemas Políticos” como ideologia política, sujeito imaterial e indivisível nas relações sociais. A partir da compreensão deste conceito, situarei os quatro Modelos de Governação existentes na história política da humanidade. Os Modelos de Governação podem ter maior ou menor impacto nos governos ao longo da História, tendo em vista as suas próprias necessidades de buscar, em outros Modelos de Governação, soluções inexistentes em si para as demandas e necessidades específicas de cada sociedade, em cada época distinta. ... read full story / add a comment
venezuela / colombia / imperialismo / guerra / non-anarchist press Thursday May 09, 2019 - 02:07 by Cecilia Zamudio 1 image
La guerra del capitalismo transnacional sigue: 129 ex-guerrilleros y más de 600 activistas han sido asesinados por la herramienta paramilitar o militar del Estado colombiano, desde la firma de los Acuerdos. Al Terrorismo de Estado que viabiliza el saqueo multinacional, no puede llamársele “paz”. ... read full story / add a comment |
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