The Federation for Anarchist Organizing (FAO) invites everyone to come to Ljubljana this May and join us at the Balkan Anarchist Bookfair (BAB). It has been ten years since the BAB started its voyage across the Balkans with the aim of connecting the local and regional, as well as international anarchist community and to provide space for exchanges of anarchist ideas, practices, literature, materials, cultural events, workshops and public discussions.

Practices of resistance, solidarity and the construction of communities against and beyond capitalism have always existed through history and have constituted an integral part of anarchist communities. Today the need for such practices has again spread far beyond our small communities and into the wider society.

Second Call for Balkan Anarchist Bookfair 2013

Programme for BAB 2013

The following is a joint statement regarding May Day achieved through a North American collaboration of the following class struggle anarchist groups and organizations: Prairie Struggle Organization, Wild Rose Collective, Four Star Anarchist Organization, Common Struggle/Lucha Común, Workers Solidarity Alliance, Free Association of Anarchists, Miami Autonomy & Solidarity.

Other Anarkismo organizations' May Day statements

Latin America:

• ¡1º de Mayo: trabajadores a organizarse y vencer! Unión Socialista Libertaria
• (Perù) ¡Por un 1º de mayo de unidad de los que luchan! Unión Socialista Libertaria
• (Brasil) O Anarquismo, o Massacre de Haymarket e os Mártires de Chicago Organização Anarquista Socialismo Libertário

Europe

• Il Primo Maggio Federazione dei Comunisti Anarchici

Oceania

• May Day Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group

Other May Day statements

• 1º de mayo de 2013 Confederación General del Trabajo
• Primero de Mayo: El movimiento sindical ante sus desafíos La Batalla de los Trabajadores
  
• Santiago de Chile: Convocatoria a Primero de Mayo clasista y de lucha La Batalla de los Trabajadores
• Κάλεσμα για ανεξάρτητη ταξική πορεία Πρωτομαγι^ Αναρχικοί/ές Πρεβεζας

In a wide ranging interview Paul Bowman talked to Felipe Corrêa (FC)  a Brazilian anarchist who is member of Organização Anarquista Socialismo Libertário [Libertarian Socialist Anarchist Organization] (OASL) about anarchist orgainising in Brasil, just how global the crisis really is and the forthcoming World Cup.

This Saturday morning Cypriot people woke up to the news that they were about to be robbed. In a pre-planned ambush scheduled to coincide with a local bank holiday weekend, Eurozone apparatchiks threatened to bankrupt the Cypriot banking system by immediate withdrawal of the ECB liquidity support.

The "deal" forced on the Cypriots by Frankfurt means a "bail-out" of the banks to the tune of 17 billion euros, roughly equivalent to the annual GDP of the Republic that makes up the EU-recognised part of this divided island. But only 10 billion will be provided by the ECB and IMF, the other 7 billion will be taken by a combination of a 1.4 billion privatisation programme, but in bulk by robbing anyone with a bank account in Cyprus.

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2012 is the centenary of the African National Congress (ANC). The party that started out as a small coterie of black businessmen, lawyers and chiefs is today the dominant political formation in South Africa.

It was founded by the black elite who were marginalised by the united South Africa formed in 1910, and who appeared at its Bloemfontein inauguration “formally dressed in suits, frock coats, top hats and carrying umbrellas”. Today it is allied via the Tripartite Alliance to the SA Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu).

Can the ANC be a vehicle for fundamental, progressive, social change in the interests of the black, Coloured and Indian working classes (proletariat), still mired in the legacy of apartheid and racial domination? This is what Cosatu (and the SACP) suggest.