Globally and in South Africa, the capitalist system is becoming more and more unstable. Over the last period, the responses of the ruling classes in many parts of the world to this growing crisis has been a turn to authoritarianism. This has been done to hold onto power and to increase their control over wealth. Factions within ruling classes, in countries such as South Africa, are also engaged in a battle over shrinking opportunities to accumulate wealth. Competition between factions within ruling classes is, therefore, also intensifying. This too is feeding into an intensification of imperialist rivalries. The consequences are that over the last few months the threat of large scale war globally, as part of a show down between imperialist powers, has become an awful possibility. The only force capable of changing this situation is the working class locally and internationally. Yet to do so, struggles need to come together, new forms appropriate to combating a rampant and growing authoritarian form of neoliberalism are needed; and such struggles need to be infused with a revolutionary progressive politics. While struggles are taking place in different parts of the world, none as yet have come to hold these three ingredients on a large scale. read full story / add a comment

Este 1ero de mayo de 2017 conmemoramos un nuevo Día Internacional de los Trabajadores y Trabajadoras. Nos movilizamos trayendo a la memoria la gran huelga general de 1886 por las 8 horas de trabajo en Estados Unidos impulsada por la militancia anarquistas; la ejecución del 11 de noviembre de 1887, tras un juicio farsa, de los líderes obreros libertarios George Engel, Adolf Fischer, Albert Parson y August Spies; la campaña mundial, liderada por la extraordinaria propagandista Lucy Parsons, revindicando la huelga del 1ero de mayo y el ejemplo político de los llamados Mártires de Chicago; y más adelante, la convocatoria en el plural Congreso Obrero y Socialista de 1889, de una jornada mundial de protesta a realizarse en esta misma fecha, por la reducción de las horas de trabajo. Así, recordamos hoy una bella expresión del poder creador de la clase trabajadora. Una celebración universal y laica, clave en la historia humana, que no es sino obra de los trabajadores y las trabajadoras mismas, fruto de sus esfuerzos y esperanzas en un mundo mejor. read full story / add a comment

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Το βιβλίο του Πιοτρ Κροπότκιν «Νόμος και Εξουσία» εκδόθηκε από τη «Διεθνή Βιβλιοθήκη» το Φεβρουάριο του 1977 και εκτός από το ομώνυμο δοκίμιο, το οποίο μεταφράστηκε από τον Γιώργο Νταλιάνη, περιέχει και άλλα 6 δοκίμια του Κροπότκιν. Η μετατροπή της πρωτότυπης μετάφρασης στο μονοτονικό σύστημα καθώς και η προσαρμογή της γλώσσας και της ορθογραφίας στα σημερινά πρότυπα έγινα από εμάς, χωρίς αλλαγές στη σύνταξη και χωρίς να υπεισέλθουμε σε έλεγχο της νοηματικής απόδοσης. read full story / add a comment

Seçimli sistemlerin tümünde, çoğunluk olan iktidar olur. Demokraside, çoğunluğun iktidarı demokratiktir. Çoğunluk olan iktidardır, azınlık olan ise iktidar olamamıştır. Çoğunluğun ve azınlığın ilişkisi, seçimler sürecince iki ayrı yöntemin tartışması şeklinde sürmüştür. Tartışmadıkları tek şey ise seçimlerdir. Seçimler bir grubun toplumu “ben-biz yönetmek istiyoruz” sözüyle başlayan, diğer grubun ise “hayır ben-biz yönetmek istiyoruz” sözüyle karşılık bulduğu bir iddiadır. Seçimler, iddianın taraflarının anlaşarak başlattığı seçmen sayma sürecidir ve seçmenler olmadan gerçekleşemez. Hangi tarafın seçmeni diğerinden çoksa, toplumun yönetimi de o tarafta olacaktır. Seçmen, bu iddialaşmada sadece sayısal bir değerdir. Bu sayısal değer gündelik yaşamında birçok sorunu çözmeye çalışarak yaşayan vatandaş için önemsenecek bir değer değildir. İddialaşmanın tarafları seçimlerdeki katılımı arttırmak için, vatandaşı, sayılan seçmen sıfatından çıkarıp iddianın içine sokmak isterler. Böylece iddiaya katılım artacaktır. Katılımın artması, bir sayı olan seçmenin, öncelikle iddiayı ve sonrasında ise seçimleri ve daha da sonrasında seçimlerin sonucunda oluşacak iktidarı içselleştirmesini sağlayacaktır. Seçmen kazansa da kaybetse de seçimin sonucunu ve seçilmiş tarafın iktidarını kabullenecektir. Vatandaşın bu kabullenmesi, seçimlerde iddialaşan her grubun kazanımıdır. Seçimi kazanan hükümetini sürdürdükçe, kaybeden de muhalefetini sürdürecek ve her iki taraf da bir dahaki seçimleri bekleyeceklerdir. [Français] [English][Ελληνικά] Also read Regarding Referendum 2 DAF Referanduma Dair 2 DAF read full story / add a comment

On winning or losing;

For the last three elections, nearly one sixth of the voters do not participate in elections. This shows us that 10,000,000 of the nearly 60,000,000 voters will not participate in the referendum. 25,000,001 of the 50,000,000 voters will give yes vote or no vote. 24,999,999 voters will have lost with the difference of a single vote. It's that easy to win or lose in this system. [Turkçe] Also read On Referendum DAF Sur le référendum [en Turquie, NdT] DAF DAF’ın Referandum Üzerine Birinci Bildirisi Κείμενο της Επαναστατικής Αναρχικής Δράσης (DAF) read full story / add a comment

Το κείμενο της DAF δημοσιεύτηκε στις 17/2/2017

Επαναστατική Αναρχική Δράση

Σχετικά με το δημοψήφισμα: πρώτη ανακοίνωση
[Turkçe] [English][Français] Διαβάστε και Regarding Referendum 2 DAF (στα αγγλικά) Referanduma Dair 2 DAF (στα τουρκικά) read full story / add a comment

In all selective systems, the ones who is majority takes the power. In democracy, the power of majority is democratic. Whoever is majority takes the power, whoever is minority does not have power. The relationship between the majority and minority during the election continues as a debate between two separate methods. The only thing that they don't discuss is elections. Election is a bet which begins when a group says "I-we want to administrate society" and they are replied by another group saying "no I-we want to administrate". Election is a process of counting voters, initiated by agreement of the parties of the bet and can not occur without the voters. The government of society is owned by the side which has more voters than the other side. The voter is only a numeric value in the bet. This numeric value is not a value to care about for a citizen trying to solve the many problems of everyday life. To increase participation to elections, the parties of the bet, want to promote the citizens from the voter title into the bettor title. This should increase the participation of the bet. The increase in attendance will cause the voter, being a number, to internalize the bet and then the domination formed as a result the result of the elections. The voter will accept the result of elections and the power of the selected side, regardless of who won or lost. This acceptance of the citizens is a win for each group who bets on elections. As long as the winner of the elections continues its government, the loser will continue its opposition and both sides will wait for the next elections.
[Turkçe][Français][Ελληνικά] Also read: Regarding Referendum 2 DAF Referanduma Dair 2 DAF (in Turkish) read full story / add a comment

Αν δεν απαλλαγούμε από τα όρια του εθνικού κράτους, από το φαντασιακό της εθνικής επικράτειας δυσκολευόμαστε να σκεφτούμε το πώς θα μπορούσε να αυτοκυβερνηθεί αυτή ακριβώς η επικράτεια. Με σημερινούς όρους συνόρων δεν θα μπορούσε, ακόμη και αν τα εθνοκράτη δεν κατέρρεαν, όπως καταρρέουν. Δεν έχουμε λόγο να περιοριζόμαστε σε αυτά τα όρια. Βλέπουμε σήμερα πληθυσμούς να εξεγείρονται, όχι αρνητικα μονάχα, μα με θετικό τρόπο, προχωρώντας σε τοπικές αυτοθεσμίσεις που συνδυάζουν παραδοσιακούς κοινοτιστικούς τρόπους ζωής με το σύγχρονο πρόταγμα της άμεσης δημοκρατίας. read full story / add a comment

In the midst of gorging themselves through exploitation and corruption, competing factions of the flabby ruling class in South Africa (the ruling class being capitalists, politicians and top state officials) have once again stepped into the ring to take pieces out of one another. In the one corner of the fight is the Zuma faction - comprised of sections of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) capitalists, top state officials, and politicians aligned to Zuma - while in the other corner is the Ramaphosa/Gordhan faction - comprised of sections of the ANC leadership such as Ramaphosa and Gordhan, white capital and the South African Communist Party (SACP). These factions have recently been standing toe to toe exchanging blows and in the process, metaphorical blood has been spilled: those of a few Cabinet Ministers, including Pravin Gordhan. read full story / add a comment

Por primera vez en la historia del país, se abre una discusión presupuestal a mitad de un período de gobierno. El Presupuesto fue elaborado por dos años debido según el gobierno a la “volatilidad e inestabilidad internacional”. Ahora se re-discutirá todo o buena parte del mismo. Pero ya el Presidente y el Ministro de Economía han abierto el paraguas de la “prudencia en el gasto”.

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Kawa’nın yüz yıllar önce yaktığı isyan ateşi, devletin Newroz’u yasaklamasına rağmen, Kürdistan’ın dört bir yanında harlanmaya devam ediyor.
Bugün, Demirci Kawa’nın zalim Dehaq’ın karşısına çıkarak “Ey Saray sahibi, seninle adalet için kavga etmeye geldim!” dediği gündür. Bugün, kavganın ve isyanın, direnerek özgürleşmenin günüdür. Bugün, Kawa’nın çıktığı yolda, aynı adalet kavgasıyla; yaşadığımız coğrafyada süren soykırım girişimlerine, kimyasal gazlarla katliamlara, zorla göç ettirmelere ve asimilasyon politikalarına karşı isyanı büyütmenin günüdür. Bugün Newroz’dur! read full story / add a comment

Aodhan Ó Ríordáin jets off to the States this week to try and crack America with his unique brand of hypocritical liberalism, trumpeting himself as an anti-racist icon in contrast to Trump’s policies of detention and deportation of undocumented migrants. Tómas Lynch takes a look at his record on the homefront. read full story / add a comment

«Επαναστατικές συγγένειες (Τα κόκκινα και τα μαύρα αστέρια μας)» των Olivie Besancenot και Michael Löwy read full story / add a comment

Το κυπριακό πρόβλημα υπάρχει και είναι άλυτο εδώ και πολλές γενιές. Η δυσκολία του εκφράζεται και με τη λαϊκή ρήση που επαναλαμβάνεται όταν δεν υπάρχει συμφωνία σε κάτι: «λες και έχουμε να λύσουμε το Κυπριακό!», αναφωνούμε.
Εξαιρετικό άρθρο του Γιώργου Κολέμπα, από το ιστολόγιο τοπικοποίηση read full story / add a comment

Bribery and extortion of the piblic police and other officials is to fund the Zimbabwean state. The regime destroyed any healthy form of industry and severely cut itself from its financial feeding source. Now they have employed police, city council and Zimra to become state fund-raisers ticketing for almost everything a citizen is supposed to receive from the state but the state cannot provide. read full story / add a comment

A modo de balance del 2016, podemos concluir que durante el año se manifestaron, a groso modo, dos posiciones en referencia a cómo resistir la brutal ofensiva de los de arriba. Por un lado, la que apunta fundamentalmente a la canalización institucional de las demandas populares, con la mira puesta en las elecciones de 2017[1] y, por otro, la que se orienta al protagonismo popular y la lucha a fondo, que en estos momentos se hace imprescindible para no perder ninguna conquista.
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An anarchist communist approach of the recent protests in Romania
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În cele ce urmează vom încerca să formulăm câteva idei dintr-o perspectivă anarhist comunistă, în măsura în care se poate realiza într-o manieră coerentă acest lucru în prezent, asupra protestelor recente împotriva deciziilor luate de partidul de guvernământ și percepute ca un atac la adresa „statului de drept”, a parcursului post-decembrist al României și a „progreselor” înregistrate în ultimii 27 de ani.
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Κώστας Δεσποινιάδης, Έξοδος Κινδύνου
Μια συλλογή δοκιμίων για την αντιεξέγερση, την κρίση, τον φασισμό, την κατάσταση εκτάκτου ανάγκης και την ουτοπία read full story / add a comment