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argentina/uruguay/paraguay / community struggles Sunday October 22, 2017 00:41 byFederación Anarquista de Rosário
Nota de la Federación Anarquista de Rosário sobre la reaparición sin vida del compañero Santiago Maldonado [English] [Português] [Français] [Italiano]¡SANTIAGO MALDONADO PRESENTE!En estos últimos días se cumplieron 3 años de la aparición del cuerpo de Luciano Arruga, 7 años del asesinato de Mariano Ferreira y hoy 20 de octubre se confirma lo que todos/as intuíamos el cuerpo encontrado, río arriba, es de Santiago Maldonado. Un joven de barrio desaparece por no querer robar para la policía, uno muere a manos de una patota por luchar contra la precarización laboral, y otro es desaparecido por luchar por la autonomía del pueblo mapuche. En todos ellos hay elementos en común, la represión del estado apunta a aquellos que resultan peligrosos por ser parte de una juventud que no se somete, que no agacha la cabeza y que no asume los mandatos del sistema. Contra la represión en los barrios, contra la precarización laboral y por la autodeterminación de los pueblos, por todas esas reivindicaciones tan urgentes seguiremos luchando. El estado mostró su cara más terrible y voraz, el mecanismo de la desaparición forzada es una metodología que las clases dominantes sostienen, con sus particularidades, en las distintas coyunturas. Y aparecen también las operaciones mediáticas, desesperadas por instalar en la sociedad un discurso que desmovilice, y busque en los de abajo la responsabilidad de lo que viene sucediendo. Aun así, no han podido frenar las gigantescas movilizaciones populares de variados sectores en todo este tiempo, y temen por la magnitud del hastío y la indignación de nuestro pueblo, que ante semejante ofensa a su dignidad, se manifestará más temprano que tarde en las calles de todo el país. ¡EL QUE MURIÓ PELEANDO VIVE EN CADA COMPAÑERO! ¡SANTIAGO MALDONADO PRESENTE!
southern africa / community struggles Thursday June 08, 2017 02:20 byJonathan Payn
The struggle of the black working class majority of Freedom Park, South Africa, is not just for land on which to build housing – although that is obviously a central issue and key demand; nor is it just against the accompanying political and police violence and intimidation. It is a struggle against the injustice, violence and corruption of a system that puts the power, privileges and profits of a few before the lives and wellbeing of the majority.
venezuela / colombia / community struggles Thursday March 30, 2017 15:54 byJosé Antonio Gutiérrez D.
El día domingo 26 de Marzo se celebró la tan esperada consulta minera sobre la explotación del oro en la mina de oro de La Colosa, en Cajamarca (Tolima). 6.241 habitantes de Cajamarca salieron ese día a votar ante una sencilla pregunta “¿Está usted de acuerdo Sí o No que en el municipio de Cajamarca se ejecuten proyectos y actividades mineras?”. El resultado fue contundente: 98% de los votantes se expresaron a favor del NO a la megaminería. [English]
ireland / britain / community struggles Monday June 13, 2016 22:51 byWorkers Solidarity Movement
Our hearts ache for the victims of the homophobic hate crime that took place over the weekend in Orlando, Florida where a gunman attacked an LGBT+ club killing 50 and wounding over 50 more. Much has been asked by us and by other left queers about the LGBT+ community, whether it exists and if it exists why don’t we feel a part of it. Sadly it is at times like these that we become aware of its existence. When people are considered deviants and deserving of a murderous assault for their sexuality, a trait all of us in the community share, we cannot but come together in sadness and in mourning.
southern africa / community struggles Thursday September 03, 2015 19:24 bySifuna Zonke
On 3 September 1984, the Vaal Triangle, which is located southeast of Johannesburg and was part of the industrial heartland of South Africa, exploded into unrest. A general stay-away from work was called, schools were closed, buses and taxis stood idle and militant protest spread across the country. It was the most significant and large-scale rebellion of the black working class since the Soweto Uprising of June, 1976, and signified one of the final nails in the coffin of apartheid and white minority rule.For the black working class living in the townships across the Vaal Triangle, such as Sharpeville, Sebokeng, Evaton, Bophelong, Boiketlong, Zamdela and others the conditions were very similar to those of today. A slump in the steel industry had led to many workers being retrenched, there were evictions of rent defaulters and bribery, corruption and self-enrichment of local councillors was rife. Councillors’ election promises went unfulfilled and township residents demanded their resignation; allegedly threatening that they would set fire to their houses should they fail to do so.Thirty-one years later, on 21 April 2015, the Sebokeng Magistrate’s Court in the Vaal sentenced four community activists from Boiketlong to sixteen years in prison each for allegedly setting fire to the local ward councillor’s house and cars during a protest action. |
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