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Rencontre CGT - Podemos - Septembre 2014
ibérie / la gauche / opinion / analyse Monday January 19, 2015 22:50 by Commission internationale A.L.   image 1 image
Dans un pays où la population n'en finit pas de payer la crise chaque jour un peu plus, la vie politique est troublée par un double phénomène : une corruption qui atteint des sommets et l'émergence d'une nouvelle force qui séduit et interroge, Podemos. read full story / add a comment
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Ελλάδα / Τουρκία / Κύπρος / Αριστερά / Γνώμη / Ανάλυση Thursday January 15, 2015 18:46 by Αργύρης Αργυριάδης*   image 1 image
Διαχρονικά ο «δημοκρατικός» σοσιαλισμός αντιμετωπίζει αρκετά προβλήματα που δεν είχαν φανταστεί οι θεμελιωτές του. Η σοσιαλδημοκρατία θεμελιώθηκε επάνω σε μια αντίφαση: για να μπορέσουν να απαντήσουν επιτυχώς στις εκλογικές πιέσεις, οι σοσιαλιστές αναγκάστηκαν να αναθεωρήσουν ή να βάλουν νερό στις ιδεολογικές τους πεποιθήσεις. Ο ΣΥΡΙΖΑ δεν αποτελεί εξαίρεση. Ο σύγχρονος καπιταλισμός, έχοντας όλο και περισσότερο τεχνολογικό χαρακτήρα, απαιτεί όλο και πιο εξειδικευμένη τεχνικά εργατική δύναμη με λιγότερη χειρωνακτική εργασία. Η «παραδοσιακή» εργατική τάξη, συνηθισμένη στην πειθαρχημένη χειρωνακτική εργασία της βαριάς βιομηχανίας, έδωσε τη θέση της σε μια διαρκώς αυξανόμενη «νέα» επισφαλή εργατική τάξη, που αποτελείται από εξειδικευμένους οι οποίοι εργάζονται σε ακμάζουσες ελαφρές βιομηχανίες, σε επιχειρήσεις παροχής υπηρεσιών ή στον τουρισμό. read full story / add a comment
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mashriq / arabia / iraq / the left / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 04, 2014 06:49 by Hüseyin Civan   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 04, 2014 19:51)   image 1 image
Toplumsal devrimlerin etkisi sadece, devrimin gerçekleştiği coğrafyada siyasi ve ekonomik iktidarlara karşı verdikleri mücadelenin etkisi ile sınırlı değildir. Farklı coğrafyalarda oluşturdukları etkiyi, bu etkiyle beraber düşünsel ve pratik değişimlerde görmek açısından önem taşımaktadır. Kobanê Direnişi ile yaygın bir şekilde konuşulmaya, tartışılmaya başlanan Rojava Devrimi bu etkinin ne olduğunun görülmesi açısından şimdi giderek daha önem kazanıyor. read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / the left / opinion / analysis Monday October 13, 2014 16:33 by Mzee   image 1 image
At the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (Cosatu) media briefing on Thursday 21 November 2013, its president Sdumo Dlamini told a journalist that the federation is “yet to decide” whether or not to contribute financially toward the ANC’s 2014 election campaign. The briefing followed a Cosatu central executive committee (CEC) meeting.
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Carta Maior. Publicado con el título “La presencia de Vargas en la elección de 2014” de fecha 20 de septiembre de 2014, el texto hace comparaciones plausibles entre el lulismo y el varguismo tardío.
brazil/guyana/suriname/fguiana / la izquierda / opinión / análisis Friday October 03, 2014 18:57 by BrunoL   image 1 image
Bruno Lima Rocha*

La campaña que se aproxima a la primera vuelta electoral presenta un momento interesante para hacer análisis a partir de posiciones definidas. Como se esperaba, la tendencia de centro-izquierda del gobierno de coalición intenta organizar una defensa inexorable del lulismo y ampliar su base de apoyo. Para demarcar una distancia con la izquierda no electoral en la situación, elegí hacer una crítica (rápida y pública) al texto del periodista Beto Almeida, publicado en el excelente portal pro gobierno Carta Maior. Publicado con el título “La presencia de Vargas en la elección de 2014” de fecha 20 de septiembre de 2014, el texto hace comparaciones plausibles entre el lulismo y el varguismo tardío. El autor, Beto Almeida es corresponsal de TELESUR en Brasil y un respetado periodista. Así, el debate que sigue no es de tipo destructivo, y aunque no concuerde con su paradigma inicial, mantendremos el tono respetuoso en función de la trayectoria del autor que es objeto de la crítica. read full story / add a comment
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brazil/guyana/suriname/fguiana / a esquerda / feature Saturday September 13, 2014 14:51 by Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira (CAB)   image 1 image
Para nós Socialistas Libertários, a política dos de baixo não se faz nas urnas, mas no cotidiano do protagonismo de classe e da ação direta. Falar disso no atual momento não significa mais remeter a abstrações ou ao passado “dos anos dourados dos movimentos de massa”, mas remeter a algo que evoca no imaginário coletivo um real exercício do poder do povo. Sem sermos ingênuos acreditando que só ir as ruas basta, sabemos que a falta de organização de base fragiliza os processos de mobilização e facilitam as tentativas de controle pelos dominantes. Deste modo, nossa aposta é nas Ruas como espaço privilegiado da ação política, mas também é a aposta na organização horizontal e de base que fortalece a ação direta, com uma agenda popular que delibera, encaminha e executa seu programa: um programa dos de baixo, que não delega poder a nenhum político de plantão. Ou se vota com os de cima, ou se organiza e se luta com os de baixo! read full story / add a comment
NUMSA: The United Front is a weapon for uniting the working class.
southern africa / the left / opinion / analysis Wednesday September 03, 2014 17:26 by Jonathan Payn   image 1 image
The resolution adopted by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) to form a ‘United Front against neoliberalism’ – as well as its decision not to endorse the ANC in the elections – represents an interesting development in the political landscape, one which activists should look at carefully and engage.

Due to the language used by the media, the Left, NUMSA’s critics and even NUMSA itself much confusion surrounds the debate – leaving many questions: Is the ‘United Front’ an organisation or attempt to build a new labour federation or political party? Is it an attempt to revive the 1980s United Democratic Front (UDF)? Why NUMSA’s sudden interest in community struggles?

This series, of which this article is the first, aims to clarify these and other questions by looking at the proposal and history of united fronts locally and internationally to clarify key issues and draw lessons that activists can use when engaging the pros and cons of NUMSA’s United Front proposal and if and how they think it should be developed. First published in issue 86 of Workers World News Part 2: Anti-militarist United Fronts and Italy’s “Red week”, 1914
Part 3: The 1917 Russian Revolution and United Front
Part 4: United Working Class Action and the Workers’ Council Movement in Germany, 1920-1923 read full story / add a comment
O lulismo se aproxima do varguismo como versão contemporânea da relação direta entre líder político e milhões de assistidos
brazil/guyana/suriname/fguiana / a esquerda / opinião / análise Wednesday August 13, 2014 21:36 by BrunoL   image 1 image
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Estamos em pleno ano eleitoral, e no momento em que escrevo estas linhas, tardam menos de dois meses para o pleito. Existe a real possibilidade de reeleição da presidenta Dilma Rousseff (PT) e com isso seria concretizado um feito inédito de dupla reeleição. Dois debates entendem-se como necessários para traçar tanto uma análise do cenário eleitoral como de uma conseqüente crítica por esquerda. O primeiro aborda o cenário eleitoral e as candidaturas oficiais por direita, além do próprio risco de não conseguir emplacar um segundo mandato. O seguinte trata da comparação do espaço político, ocupado pelo lulismo, como uma “continuidade descontínua” do trabalhismo contemporâneo.
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southern africa / the left / debate Wednesday August 06, 2014 21:58 by Red and Black Action   image 1 image
OVERVIEW: There is a healthy skepticism among many activists about simple grand plans, arising partly from disastrous Marxist experiments like the Soviet Union. But the opposite — faith that struggles spontaneously reach the best outcomes if freed of theory and plans — has serious problems. Many struggles falter or are captured as old mistakes are made again. Capitalism and the state cannot be defeated by a growing wave of loosely linked alternative “spaces” and experiments. These systems are based on coercion and exploitation; their defeat requires large-scale confrontation by a coordinated bottom-up working class counter-power with clear politics. The point of resistance is to change the world: it is not an aim in itself, just a response; a politics fetishising perpetual resistance must rely on a world of oppression. Closing discussion by labeling views “dogmatic” is a recipe for imposing other positions and elites through the backdoor. There is no need to repeat the tragic errors of the past. Other revolutionary theories from working class struggles – like anarchism and syndicalism — share no blame for the failures of vanguardism and reformism, and have valuable insights on building a participatory, transformative, project of “people’s power,” and on moving from resistance to reconstruction.It is important to speak openly about theory, strategy and vision, and to engage openly with the revolutionary traditions of the popular classes, like anarchism and syndicalism, born of our past struggles, and distilled from those struggles. read full story / add a comment
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international / the left / feature Thursday July 10, 2014 16:28 by Wayne Price   text 4 comments (last - monday january 26, 2015 12:31)   image 1 image
The leader of the International Marxist Tendency has written an attack on anarchism from his Trotskyist perspective. He makes some correct criticisms of some versions of anarchism, in relation to those who reject revolution or political organization. But he attempts to defend the idea of a "workers' state" by limited quotes from Lenin and by mistating the history of the Russian revolution. [Italiano] read full story / add a comment
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internazionale / la sinistra / recensione Tuesday July 01, 2014 14:50 by Wayne Price   image 1 image
Il leader della International Marxist Tendency ha scritto un attacco contro l'anarchismo da una prospettiva trotzkysta. Alcune sue critiche a certe correnti dell'anarchismo risultano corrette, in particolare in relazione a coloro che rifiutano la rivoluzione o l'organizzazione politica. Ma egli poi cerca di difendere l'idea di uno "stato operaio" ricorrendo a limitate citazioni di Lenin e mistificando la storia della rivoluzione russa. [English] read full story / add a comment
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venezuela / colombia / la izquierda / opinión / análisis Tuesday June 17, 2014 04:18 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.   text 2 comments (last - monday june 23, 2014 07:05)   image 1 image
El triunfo de Santos no debería sorprender a nadie: las elecciones no definen nada, sino que sancionan apenas, con un tenue barniz democrático, lo que ya estaba decidido. Con el respaldo del capital financiero, de los empresarios, de los EEUU y de la Unión Europea, era imposible que Santos perdiera. Aunque es discutible el peso de la izquierda en el resultado electoral, lo cierto es que la izquierda tuvo un rol clave no en decidir las elecciones, sino en ayudar a lavar la imagen de Santos ante la opinión pública. Además, al personalizar –junto a los santistas- el proceso de paz en la figura del presidente, han ayudado a que la paz, originalmente una conquista del pueblo movilizado (y en últimas hasta un deber constitucional), pueda ser redefinida en este segundo período de gobierno en los términos de Santos. El presidente tiene las llaves de la paz, ahora sí, bien guardaditas en su bolsillo y no las compartirá con nadie, a menos que sea hacia la derecha. read full story / add a comment
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venezuela / colombia / la izquierda / opinión / análisis Sunday June 15, 2014 10:57 by Steven Crux   image 3 images
En medio de locas de naranjas e hijos no prestados para la guerra transcurre el actual circo electoral, que llega a su tercer clímax después del 9 de marzo y el 18 de mayo. Al igual que en las anteriores oportunidades hoy salen los payasos protagonistas: desde mujeres de la “clase media”[1] trabajando para Uribe hasta, quienes con la alternativa no tan “Clara”, llaman a votar por el Santismo Positivo. Todo un espectáculo, donde a las de abajo se nos ve de nuevo como simples espectadoras cuyo único rol será legitimar por medio del voto su “democracia”, es decir, la explotación y la miseria durante por lo menos 4 años más.

Este articulo pretende analizar brevemente este panorama, pero también proponer líneas de acción y elementos con los cuales podamos romper este guion ya escrito, escapar de él para ser nosotras mismas –las históricamente excluidas- quienes llevemos las riendas de nuestras vidas y nuestras comunidades, barriendo hoy con el bochornoso espectáculo de derechas peleándose e izquierdas tibias cargándole ladrillos al enemigo. read full story / add a comment
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venezuela / colombia / la izquierda / opinión / análisis Sunday June 01, 2014 07:11 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.   text 2 comments (last - wednesday june 18, 2014 20:42)   image 1 image
Es verdad que con Santos también se asesina sindicalistas, se desplaza, se hacen falsos positivos, se bombardea indiscriminadamente; no olvidemos que Santos impulsó la ampliación del fuero militar y ha criminalizado la protesta social mediante la ley de Seguridad Ciudadana. Pero Zuluaga es más guache, eleva los “pecados” de la oligarquía colombiana a la categoría de “virtud”. Por ello es entendible la mezcla de rechazo, el miedo y la histeria que la posibilidad de un triunfo de Zuluaga ocasiona en muchas personas honestas. Esto es lo que ha llevado a un sector importante de la izquierda plantearse apoyar a Santos en la segunda vuelta. read full story / add a comment
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venezuela / colombia / la izquierda / opinión / análisis Friday May 30, 2014 15:34 by José Antonio Gutiérrez D.   image 1 image
En verdad que estas elecciones demostraron, como pocas, el enorme abismo que hay entre el país político y el país nacional, para utilizar esa pertinente dicotomía desarrollada por Gaitán. Mientras algunos se quiebran la cabeza por descifrar el mensaje de los votantes, la realidad es que la inmensa mayoría del país no votó. Desde la distancia, miraron las elecciones con asco, repugnancia, hostilidad, apatía o indiferencia. Que un 60% de las personas habilitadas para votar no lo hayan hecho, es algo bastante diciente. Uno podrá valorarlo como quiera, decir que al pueblo le falta conciencia, que no entiende, pero lo cierto es que hay que ponderar esta situación y sacar de ella las conclusiones que hagan falta para seguir impulsando la lucha popular. Pero lo importante es tener conciencia de que lo que realmente decide es la lucha, no de un día, sino en un lapso más amplio, con ritmos distintos a los marcados cada cuatro años por los formalismos seudo-democráticos de fachada del régimen. La organización popular, desde abajo, desde los barrios, desde el campo, desde las escuelas, desde las empresas es lo que decide. read full story / add a comment
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russia / ucraina / bielorussia / la sinistra / opinione / analisi Sunday May 18, 2014 14:45 by Antti Rautiainen   image 1 image
I fatti della Casa dei Sindacati a Odessa sono una tragedia ed è possibile che tra coloro che vi hanno trovato la morte ci fossero anche persone che non c'entravano nulla con l'accendersi della violenza. Chi ha tirato le molotov contro l'edificio avrebbe dovuto sapere quali potevano essere le conseguenze, anche se l'incendio non era dovuto solo alle molotov. [English] read full story / add a comment
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russia / ukraine / belarus / the left / opinion / analysis Monday May 12, 2014 04:49 by Antti Rautiainen   image 1 image
The events at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa are a tragedy, and it is possible, that among those who died there were also people who played no part in flaring up the violence. People who threw molotov cocktails at the House should have understood the consequences. Even if the fire igniting was not solely due to them, it is not for lack of trying. In case civil war spreads, these deaths are just the beginning. No doubt that on both sides the majority only wants a better life for their close ones and their motherland, and many hate governments and oligarchs to an equal extent. The more sincerely naïve people die, the greater the pressure to support one of the factions in the war, and we must struggle against this pressure. [Italiano] [Français] read full story / add a comment
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southern africa / the left / feature Wednesday May 07, 2014 21:28 by Shawn Hattingh & Jonathan Payn   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 13, 2014 21:37)   image 1 image
There has been much hype, amongst the media and sections of the public, in the run up to this year’s provincial and national elections in South Africa and, for some, the arrival of new parties to the electoral arena has renewed their faith in the possibility of an electoral solution to the myriad of problems facing South Africa. Politicians from across all parties have been using this hype and a seemingly renewed faith in the ballot box to their advantage. The question, therefore, is: can equality, socialism, national liberation or ‘economic freedom’ – or even a respite from state violence – for a majority be brought about through parties and activists entering into the state or through voting for parties that promise not to use the state for violent or oppressive means; or will this only lead to a dead-end for the working class yet again? read full story / add a comment
north america / mexico / the left / anarchist communist event Friday April 25, 2014 06:36 by Syndicalist
Our intention with this call is to create a welcoming space where we can engage in an exchange of ideas with the broader public. We call on groups and individuals from all social anarchist and anti-authoritarian tendencies to join us to help plan and build this contingent. read full story / add a comment
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