L’anarchismo sociale è consapevole che i popoli emancipati non possono aspettarsi miglioramenti sostanziali nelle loro vite attraverso la lotta parlamentare. Al contrario, in tempi di scarsità crescono i mostri autoritari. L’ideologia di destra usa strumentalmente la diversità della classe lavoratrice per individuare gruppi da odiare: gli immigrati, la comunità LGTBI, gli zingari o persino il femminismo o l’ambientalismo. [Inglese] [Castigliano] read full story / add a comment

I terremoti del 6 febbraio e le loro scosse di assestamento hanno devastato intere regioni. Il bilancio delle vittime è di decine di migliaia e continua a salire. L'accesso all'acqua, all'elettricità, al gas, al cibo e ad altri beni di prima necessità è ridotto o inesistente per milioni di persone. Le nostre compagne e i nostri compagni delle organizzazioni anarchiche, dei sindacati di base e delle organizzazioni popolari stanno lavorando insieme e sono direttamente coinvolti nei soccorsi. Stiamo lanciando una raccolta di fondi per sostenere il lavoro di queste organizzazioni. read full story / add a comment

In this article, I use the framing of the class struggle and the action of revolutionary militancy to reflect on three fundamental concepts: propaganda, solidarity, and education. read full story / add a comment

La pandemia di COVID-19 ha colpito ogni aspetto della vita umana. Ha avuto un effetto devastante sulla salute fisica e mentale delle persone, sulle relazioni sociali e sulle comunità, sui nostri mezzi di sussistenza e sulla libertà di movimento. Ha anche ridotto significativamente la nostra capacità di organizzare una protesta politica efficace e ha rafforzato lo Stato. read full story / add a comment

What is especifismo? Is it anarchism? What is an especifist organization? What does it do? Is it a political party? These questions, which may seem basic to some, are not uncommon. Using the Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro’s (FARJ) Social Anarchism and Organisation, we can arrive at a more concrete understanding of the ideology, theory, strategy, and final objectives of especifismo. This is not a definitive study of especifismo. It is a close analysis of a single text. If this theory is to have an influence on the revolutionary strategies of social anarchists around the world, we must continue to expand our research on the subject. Today, this usually requires working in multiple languages or with translations. For this reason, anglophone anarchists quickly arrive at the end of the available literature on the subject. This text is intended to add to an amassing canon of English-language writings on the subject. read full story / add a comment

The Centre-Periphery model of class struggle, as elaborated by FARJ (Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro) in Social Anarchism and Organisation (2008), has been a much debated topic within ACM. This article will seek to explain the concept by analysing FARJ’s source for the concept in Rudolf De Jong’s ‘Some Remarks on the Libertarian Conception of Revolutionary Change’ (1975) before discussing the possible uses and applications for anarchists within so-called Australia. read full story / add a comment

Poorer countries, which make up 84% of the global population, have only been able to secure around 32% of the world’s vaccine supply. read full story / add a comment

Primo numero de “il Cantiere” raccolta di materiali di intervento dei comunisti anarchici nella lotta di classe

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La pandemia determinata dal virus Covid-19 sembra, almeno sul continente europeo, in via di attenuazione benché continuino ad apparire sempre nuovi focolai di infezione e sul futuro penda l’incertezza di una possibile e paventata nuova ondata nel periodo autunnale; al momento la diffusione del virus colpisce, sia per contagiati che per vittime, soprattutto il continente americano con la massima espansione proprio in quei paesi come gli Usa ed il Brasile dove i rispettivi presidenti ne avevano minimizzato la pericolosità in maniera superficiale ed irresponsabile. E ovunque la gestione della pandemia aggrava le condizioni delle classi subalterne e delle categorie sociali più deboli. read full story / add a comment

Jeffery R. Webber teaches in the Department of Politics at York University, Toronto. His latest book is The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left. He is presently at work on Latin American Crucible: Politics and Power in the New Era, under contract with Verso. He was interviewed for Marxist Left Review by Róbert Nárai. read full story / add a comment

It is within times of crisis when the thin veil of neoliberalism slips to reveal the emperor is not wearing any clothes. It exposes the sheer inefficacy of capitalism to cope with human crises and cater for the most basic human needs. In these times, when the capitalist state is left reeling, we see glimpses of community, solidarity and interdependence emerge once again - the very ideals neoliberalism has for the last 40 odd years attempted to erode and eradicate. It exposes that the ‘common sense’ manner of organising our lives, work and economy is entirely at odds with the will of the people but also, very importantly, it provides us with the opportunity to imagine a transformed world read full story / add a comment

The Covid-19 global health crisis is one that required a global response led by health workers but with the consensus of almost everyone. Instead we face a piecemeal response, often in the form of repressive policing solutions that are not even particularly effective and where the borders between the states have undermined collective action and allowed the virus to multiply in the gaps. read full story / add a comment

The politics in the Philippine archipelago is dominated by hierarchical and alienating politics as represented by reformism and National Democracy. Against these the paper forwards the liberatory politics of anarchism. The paper introduces anarchist concepts such as egalitarian organizing, mutual aid, and direct action for people unfamiliar with these concepts. After situating anarchism in the anti-authoritarian struggles in the archipelago, the paper also argues for a shift in the anarchist politics of the archipelago from an autonomist anarchism towards a revolutionary politics as a social movement. read full story / add a comment

Governments and bosses claim to be at war with coronavirus. In reality, it is a war against our social class that they are waging. A war against us for their profits! read full story / add a comment

In the face of the COVID-19 tsunami, our lives are changing in ways that were inconceivable just a few short weeks ago. Not since the 2008-2009 economic collapse has the world collectively shared an experience of this kind: a single, rapidly-mutating, global crisis, structuring the rhythm of our daily lives within a complex calculus of risk and competing probabilities. read full story / add a comment

This booklet, called Capitalism, Anti-capitalism and Popular Organisation, is a publication of the Popular University of Rio de Janeiro in conjunction with the Movement of Unemployed Workers of Rio de Janeiro (MTD-RJ). In this co-edition, we thought that a first and important step would be material that explained, in a simple way, the functioning of the capitalist system and offered a critical and current perspective in relation to it. At the same time, this material should offer more than just criticism. It should present constructive elements that could show ways and possibilities of how to fight capitalism and, also, give some perspectives of struggle in the medium and long term. read full story / add a comment

Ya han pasado las elecciones. Recién el jueves 28 se ha confirmado ha ganado la fórmula Luis Lacalle Pou-Beatriz Argimón, marcando un retorno de la derecha clásica a la administración del Estado.

Mucho se ha hablado de estas elecciones. Desde la “izquierda” la importancia que revestía, de lo que estaba en juego, de los riesgos de que ganara la derecha, de que Cabildo Abierto se convirtiera en una fuerza determinante en la coalición «multicolor» con gran capacidad de presión, se ha hablado del miedo al fascismo. Todo ello fue colocado como argumento para votar a Martínez, entre tantas otras cosas.

Para evitar confusiones -o incrementar las que ya hay-, separemos la paja del trigo. Hagamos unos análisis pormenorizados de varios hechos y concepciones y pongamos el eje en lo que verdaderamente está en juego en el próximo período. read full story / add a comment

As rents become unaffordable and property ownership becomes a luxury, tiny houses are being advocated as a way of addressing the housing crisis both here in Aotearoa and elsewhere. read full story / add a comment

This article is analysing the current situation of PKK after seeing Abdulla Ocalan By his lawyers on 02/05. Should PKK transform itself from an army struggle movement to a mass movement or staying the same? In responding to this question i will try to point out some facts.

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The rise of the far right is a worldwide phenomenon, rooted in the nefarious effects of neoliberal globalization which have pushed the world into mass unemployment and enormous inequalities. I consider it to be a late political effect of the global financial crisis that hit the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

It is not an easy task to explain the phenomenon of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and to understand the groups that support him, both within and outside government. It’s difficult, for anyone, to draw a truly complete and sober analysis of what we have experienced. This essay is not based on in-depth research but on collective reflections and debates. I intend to pose some key questions and try to identify some clues to answer them. read full story / add a comment