Αυτό είναι ένα σύντομο κομμάτι σχετικά με την αναρχία, που δημοσιεύτηκε από τον Γερμανό αναρχικό, Erich Mühsam (1878-1934). Φίλος του Gustav Landauer, που συμμετείχε στην Επανάσταση του 1919 στη Βαυαρία και ένας από τους πρώτους ριζοσπάστες που δολοφονήθηκε από τους Ναζί τον Ιούλη του1934 μετά την κατάληψη της εξουσίας από τους ίδιους, ο Mühsam υπήρξε, μαζί με τους Gustav Landauer και Rudolf Rocker, ένας από τους σημαντικότερους Γερμανούς αναρχικούς του 20ού αιώνα. Αυτή η μετάφραση έχει ληφθεί από τη συλλογή των γραπτών του Mühsam που εκδόθηκε από τον Gabriel Kuhn με τίτλο “Liberating Society from the State” (“Απελευθερώνοντας την Κοινωνία από το Κράτος“) που κυκλοφόρησε από PM Press. read full story / add a comment

Occorre rendersi conto che le scorciatoie ed i miti del blocco totale del paese, del barricadismo fine a se stesso, senza costruire coscienza solidale ed ugualitaria in organismi autonomi e libertari, potranno far esplodere tutta la loro carica ribelle, ma solo il tempo deciderà se avranno contribuito alla rivoluzione o a consolidare il potere dello Stato e della reazione.
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Examining the theory and practice of ‘mass’ anarchism and syndicalism, this paper argues against Daryl Glaser’s views that workers’ council democracy fails basic democratic benchmarks and that, envisaged as a simple instrument of a revolution imagined in utopian ‘year zero’ terms, it will probably collapse or end in ‘Stalinist’ authoritarianism—Glaser also argues instead for parliaments, supplemented by participatory experiments. While agreeing with Glaser on the necessity of a ‘democratic minimum’ of pluralism, rights, and open-ended outcomes, I demonstrate, in contrast, that this ‘minimum’ is perfectly compatible with bottom-up council democracy and self- management, as envisaged in anarchist/syndicalist theory, and as implemented by anarchist revolutions in Manchuria, Spain and Ukraine. This approach seeks to maximise individual freedom through an egalitarian, democratic, participatory order, developed as both means and outcome of revolution; it consistently insists that attempts to ‘save’ revolutions by suspending freedoms, instead destroy both. Parliament, again in contrast to Glaser, from this perspective, meets no ‘democratic minimum’, being part of the state, a centralized, unaccountable institutional nexus essential to domination and exploitation by a ruling class of state managers and capitalists. Rather than participate in parliaments, ‘mass’ anarchism argues for popular class autonomy from, and struggle against, the existing order as a means of winning economic and political reforms while—avoiding ‘year zero’ thinking—also building the new society, within and against, the old, through a prefigurative project of revolutionary counter-power and counter-culture. Revolution here means the complete expansion of a bottom-up democracy, built through a class struggle for economic and social equality, and requiring the defeat of the ruling class, which is itself the outcome of widespread, free acceptance of anarchism, and of a pluralistic council democracy and self-management system. read full story / add a comment

O nosso país está numa confusão. A fome, a pobreza, a exploração e a injustiça espreitam.

A classe trabalhadora e os pobres deparam, a cada passo, com os muros altos da injustiça, as cadeias do desemprego e as balas e os cassetetes da polícia.

Os conflitos agitam o país e as esperanças que brilhavam em 1994 estão a desaparecer, envelhecidas, enferrujando sob as águas da ganância, da opressão e da desigualdade; essas esperanças são como um sonho que desaparece quando se desperta para uma realidade sombria.

A questão nacional, as nossas profundas divisões de raça e nacionalidade, continuam sem solução: os políticos, pretos e brancos, pioram ainda a situação com o objectivo de obterem votos. read full story / add a comment

Parto aclarando que Petro no es ningún santo de mi devoción. Sin embargo su destitución e inhabilitación por 15 años es un escándalo, un atropello, una desmesura, que debería hacer reaccionar a cualquier persona con un mínimo de criterio. read full story / add a comment

Examining the theory and practice of ‘mass’ anarchism and syndicalism, this paper argues against Daryl Glaser’s views that workers’ council democracy fails basic democratic benchmarks and that, envisaged as a simple instrument of a revolution imagined in utopian ‘year zero’ terms, it will probably collapse or end in ‘Stalinist’ authoritarianism—Glaser also argues instead for parliaments, supplemented by participatory experiments. While agreeing with Glaser on the necessity of a ‘democratic minimum’ of pluralism, rights, and open-ended outcomes, I demonstrate, in contrast, that this ‘minimum’ is perfectly compatible with bottom-up council democracy and self-management, as envisaged in anarchist/syndicalist theory, and as implemented by anarchist revolutions in Manchuria, Spain and Ukraine. This approach seeks to maximise individual freedom through an egalitarian, democratic, participatory order, developed as both means and outcome of revolution; it consistently insists that attempts to ‘save’ revolutions by suspending freedoms, instead destroy both. Parliament, again in contrast to Glaser, from this perspective, meets no ‘democratic minimum’, being part of the state, a centralized, unaccountable institutional nexus essential to domination and exploitation by a ruling class of state managers and capitalists. Rather than participate in parliaments, ‘mass’ anarchism argues for popular class autonomy from, and struggle against, the existing order as a means of winning economic and political reforms while—avoiding ‘year zero’ thinking—also building the new society, within and against, the old, through a prefigurative project of revolutionary counter-power and counter-culture. Revolution here means the complete expansion of a bottom-up democracy, built through a class struggle for economic and social equality, and requiring the defeat of the ruling class, which is itself the outcome of widespread, free acceptance of anarchism, and of a pluralistic council democracy and self-management system. read full story / add a comment

Se san ezitasyon tout ouvriye ak ouvriyèz faktori nan Sonapi ak sou wout ayewopò a lese travay yo pou reponn ak apèl kòdinasyon sendika ki nan tekstil ak abiman nan Pòtoprens. E se an plizyè milye yo pran lari epi desann devan palman an. read full story / add a comment

Οι 7 θάνατοι του Μπουεναβεντούρα Ντουρρούτι (20/11/1936)
Επτά εκδοχές για το θάνατο του Μπουεναβεντούρα Ντουρρούτι. Aπόσπασμα από το βιβλίο του Χανς Μάγκνους Εντσενσμπέργκερ «Το σύντομο καλοκαίρι της Αναρχίας» εκδ. Οδυσσέας 1981 - Αναδημοσιεύει ο Παύλος read full story / add a comment

Las organizaciones abajo firmantes rechazamos y denunciamos ante la comunidad Nacional e Internacional, las acciones sistemáticas, violentas, de seguimiento e intimidación en contra de la vida, seguridad, integridad y dignidad de Luis Jerónimo Pulido Arredondo, Sandra Restrepo García y Juan Manuel Buritica Espitia; Ingenieros Agrónomos y Defensores de los Derechos Humanos, Económicos, Sociales, Culturales y Ambientales de comunidades campesinas y territorios agrarios del país, e integrantes de la organización social y ambientalista Tierra Libre y del Coordinador Nacional Agrario. read full story / add a comment

Melissa Sepúlveda, estudante de medicina de 22 anos, militante da Frente de Estudantes Libertários (FEL) e feminista libertária de “La Alzada”, foio eleitas, em meados de Novembro, presidente da Federação de Estudantes da Universidade do Chile (Fech) como candidata da lista “Lutar”, com 31,2% dos votos. Esta lista é a expressão de “um espaço de construção político e social que começa em finais de 2011 com a finalidade de fazer convergir diferentes projectos de base existentes na Universidade do Chile desenvolvidos por organizações e independentes de Esquerda com Intenção Revolucionária que apontam para o desenvolvimento de um projecto de Universidade e de educação ao serviço do conjunto social”, segundo explica o próprio programa. A FEL foi um animador e uma importante força dentro desta coligação ampla que não se articula apenas no momento das eleições estudantis, mas que trabalha nos espaços de construção e mobilização de forma permanente, desenvolvendo uima proposta de universidade dentro de um projecto de transformação social radical do Chile actual. [Castellano] [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

Have you daydreamed about being a member of an intergenerational social justice organization like the Order of Phoenix? Do you want Dumbledore to be your mentor?
Have dementors ever burned you out to the point where you doubted your ability to take on the Voldemorts of our world? Do you find yourself analyzing Dumbledore’s Army for lessons on developing liberatory vision, culture, leadership, and organization?

Me too. Let’s develop our magic, build our liberation movement, and defeat the Voldemorts in our world. I’ll meet you in the Room of Requirement, and until then, here are my top lessons from Harry Potter for social justice organizing.
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En este documento se estipula la misión de la Unión Libertaria Estudiantil frente a la educación. read full story / add a comment

" Decían que exigir en paritarias salarios mínimos de seis mil pesos era una fantasía irrisoria, que eso jamás podría ocurrir en un régimen de estas características. Nos mintieron una vez más y las ofertas hacia quienes reprimen las protestas sociales están rondando en los diez mil pesos. Una verdadera estafa que prepara y esconde los aumentos para un mayor alcance de la represión."

"Hoy, que se cumplen 30 años de la retirada de los militares, recordamos a aquel pueblo valiente que hizo frente a la peor dictadura que nos haya tocado vivir, la que masacró a toda una generación revolucionaria, y nos permitió recuperar esta democracia que hoy transitamos. Siempre preferible a cualquier proceso militar, pero a la vez insuficiente para dar respuesta a los reclamos obreros y populares que siguen tan vigentes como nunca, y cada día más. Es por eso que, con el ejemplo de lxs compañerxs caídos como respaldo, y las luchas del pueblo como estandarte, debemos avanzar. Fortalecer las organizaciones populares para enfrentar lo que se viene, es nuestra tarea primera y principal. Es allí, en el calor de la lucha, donde deberemos reconstruir los lazos de solidaridad de una clase enorme y variada, pero que necesariamente debe atacar con un solo puño para vencer. Para eso, es vital la unidad de los luchadores del campo popular, sin sectarismos ni mezquindades, con el objetivo de crear un pueblo fuerte, y contribuir a su acumulación política, organizativa y de combate." read full story / add a comment

A frail multimillionaire dies peacefully in bed at the grand old age of 95, surrounded by a coterie of those who love him and those with an eye on the inheritance, an event that would in the normal course of events be seen as natural—but the man concerned has been treated internationally as more of a supernatural entity than an ordinary man. The unsurpassed hagiography around Nelson Mandela, who died in the über-wealthy enclave of Houghton in Johannesburg last Thursday night, the famous prisoner turned global icon on a par with Mohandas Gandhi is upheld by most observers of South Africa as a necessary myth of national unity, and not least of the triumph of racial reconciliation of over the evils of segregation.

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Mandela hoy es un ícono polivalente, de muchas caras, con sus luces y sus sombras. Las luchas del pueblo sudafricano contra el apartheid son un patrimonio de la humanidad, un hito importante en el proceso de humanización de nuestra torturada especie. Pero también estas luchas encapsulan las contradicciones de su tiempo: animadas por los valores de la izquierda, terminan entrampadas en el estrecho horizonte ideológico del neoliberalismo, donde la igualdad de todos fue entendida apenas como libertad ante el omnipotente mercado. read full story / add a comment

Our country is in a mess. Hunger, poverty, exploitation and injustice stalk the land.

The working class and poor face, at every step, the high walls of injustice, the chains of unemployment, and the bullets and batons of the police.

Conflicts shake the country, and hopes that shone in 1994 are fading, rusting under the waters of greed, oppression, and inequality; those hopes seem like a dream that fades when you awake to a grim reality. read full story / add a comment

The joint struggle of the anarchists against the wall with popular comities of the villages which persist in weekly struggles was promoted first time when a joint comity was organized and sporadic joint actions were organized by it. This month another promotion was done and a monthly convergence of all the activists involved - this time in Nabi Saleh was done. This week, the intensifying of the Israeli transfer efforts of Palestinians and the struggle against it was focused this week on the Praver plan to transfer in one step 40,000 Bedouins within the 1948 border. There were demonstration in various location in Israel picking in the more than thousands participant in Hura at the Bedouin region. The social struggle within israel which was al along the last two years in very low intensity seems to collect some momentum. [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

El Movimiento Nacional de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado (Movice) denuncia que el 3 de diciembre, en la finca Pitalito, ubicada entre los municipios de Chimichagua y Curumaní (Cesar), hombres armados, al parecer al servicio del empresario palmero Juan Manuel Fernández de Castro, dispararon en contra de varios miembros de la comunidad de Pitalito, la periodista del Movice y el periodista independiente Bruno Federico. read full story / add a comment

Entrevista con Laura Villa, guerrillera de las FARC-EP participante de las negociaciones de La Habana. read full story / add a comment

Quanto più gli sforzi di pulizia etnica messi in atto dai coloni naZionisti israeliani vengono frustrati dalle potenze imperialiste mondiali, tanto più essi si fanno crudeli. Il cedimento di fronte alla richiesta europea di sottoscrivere il bando parziale sugli investimenti nelle regioni occupate nel 1967 viene "compensato" dagli sforzi di sgomberi all'interno dei confini del 1948. Il più imponente di questi sforzi è quello di sgomberare in un colpo solo decine di migliaia di Beduini del sud... e la crescente ribellione che sta mobilitando gli attivisti dentro Israele. [English] read full story / add a comment