Editorial de la publicación anarquista de Medellín El (A)guijón, No.22, Enero-Febrero 2013. read full story / add a comment

Hablar de terrorismo de Estado hoy, en climas de progresismo político, de democracia, de aparente limpieza de las actuaciones del gobierno anterior, parece innecesario dirían los alineados al gobierno, esos que creen que Juan Manuel Santos representa una versión más moderada de la oligarquía colombiana, pero para muchos otros, los que no nos quedamos satisfechos con ese mundo de las apariencias proyectado, no es más que uno de los tantos disfraces con los que se revisten los dominadores de siempre. read full story / add a comment

From 25th to 27th January 2013, ELAOPA returned to the city of its birth to commemorate ten years of the difficult but necessary journey to building people’s power in Latin America. It seeks to “maintain its independence in the face of political parties, the state and its governments, NGOs, companies and all those that, with authoritarian structures distant from our realities, come to tell us what we have to do.” read full story / add a comment

Hundreds and hundreds of people came together on 28 December at the Ateneo del Cerro in Montevideo, Uruguay for the receiving of the remains of Alberto “Pocho” Mechoso, detained and disappeared in Argentina in 1976. A long march accompanied Pocho’s family, friends and comrades – old, young and not-so-old... a whole people, a neighbourhood that was present to the cry of “Arriba los que luchan!”. [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

Abordaremos los siguientes ejes:
+Contexto histórico desde el Apartheid hasta la Actualidad
+Actualidad del Anarquismo en las luchas sociales
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Las acciones legítimas de sacar a los actores armados del territorio CXAB WALA KIWE del Norte del Cauca, por la defensa de la madre tierra, es una consecuencia lógica, sabia y de absoluta resistencia de un pueblo digno cansado y atropellado por un sistema de muerte: el capitalismo. Muchas y muchos creen que este es solo asunto de hace unos cuantos meses. Hay que recordar que nuestros compañerxs indígenas están en lucha milenaria y se niegan a desaparecer. Uno de sus mayores logros ante los nuevos inquisidores en la época de la independencia, no precisamente por la aristocracia criolla, sino como fruto de la insurrección comunera, fue el otorgar reconocimiento a los resguardos indígenas “mientras no se hayan vendido o permutado.” (Antonio García, Los Comuneros, p.245, Ed. Desde Abajo), Algunos resguardos desaparecieron, pero otros se han mantenido, han sido refugio, se han fortalecido y son la manera de permanencia y conservación de las culturas indígenas y del territorio. read full story / add a comment

La forma como fueron narradas las tomas y los desalojos por parte de gran cantidad de indígenas en el Cauca contra el ejército colombiano y sus bases militares evidencian y reconfirman los puntos que venimos argumentando de los medios masivos de comunicación burgueses: (1) pueden deslegitimar acciones del gobierno más no al statu quo como tal, (2) narran la guerra desde la perspectiva del gobierno y de ciertos intereses económicos, (3) juegan un papel decisivo en la formación de opinión ya que construyen consensos mediante información tergiversada, (4) pueden despertar patriotismo y aprobaciones de represión estatal legitimando atropellos contra comunidades que resisten a la guerra, (5) fabrican falsos escenarios de la situación política, social y económica creíbles para los espectadores. read full story / add a comment

El pasado 30 de mayo las agendas mediáticas de las grandes cadenas noticiosas del país se centraron en la liberación, por parte de la guerrilla de las FARC, del periodista francés Romeo Langlois, el cual fue capturado en el departamento del Caquetá en medio del fuego cruzado entre militares y policías antidroga y, la guerrilla de las FARC, el pasado 28 de abril. En efecto, la liberación del periodista francés se llevó a cabo y, de inmediato acaparó la atención nacional dejando a un lado otros hechos noticiosos transcurridos durante el día. read full story / add a comment

Dans cette interview, réalisée entre août et octobre de 2010, la Fédération Anarchiste de Rio de Janeiro (Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro – FARJ) évoque son interprétation de concepts tels que le spécifisme (especifismo), le dualisme organisationnel, l’insertion sociale et le rôle de l'organisation politique anarchiste par rapport aux mouvements sociaux et à la lutte de classe. Il s’agit aussi de parler de l'entrée récente de la FARJ dans le Forum de l'Anarchisme Organisé (Fórum do Anarquismo Organisado – FAO) et des conséquences sociales du choix de Rio de Janeiro comme une Ville Hôte de la FIFA 2014, aussi bien que des questions quelquefois difficiles, telles que la nécessité de trouver un équilibre entre les niveaux d'unité théorique et stratégique et du besoin de croître comme organisation. La Fédération Anarchiste de Rio de Janeiro (Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro (FARJ) est une organisation anarchiste spécifique de la ville de Rio de Janeiro, le Brésil. [Português] [English] read full story / add a comment

This document, first published in Portuguese under the title Anarquismo Social e Organização and adopted at the first Congress of the Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro in August 2008, seeks to map out the FARJ’s theoretical conception of an organised, class struggle anarchism and, “More than a purely theoretical document, [...] reflects the conclusions realised after five years of practical application of anarchism in the social struggles of our people”. read full story / add a comment

Failures of democracy have been a big part of the history of the DLF. We in the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) have had to raise such challenges several times (see “DLF structure: concerns and proposals” by ZACF). We have long been troubled by the lack of proper democratic structures, by a leadership that consists far more of middle-class intellectuals than of grassroots militants, and by a programme that seems to be determined in advance by the academic and NGO interests of these intellectuals instead of by the immediate needs of the workers and the poor. read full story / add a comment

Le porte-parole militaire avait raison - Mustafa est mort parce qu'il jetait des pierres, il est mort parce qu'il avait osé parler d'une vérité, avec ses mains, dans un endroit où elle est interdite. [Hebrew] [English] [Italiano] [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

Il portavoce dell'esercito ha ragione... Mustafa è morto perché lanciava sassi; è morto perché osava dire una verità - con le sue mani - in un luogo dove la verità è vietata. [English] read full story / add a comment

El portavoz del ejército tenía razón - Mustafá murió porque tiraba piedras; murió porque se atrevió a expresar una verdad, con sus manos, en un lugar donde la verdad está prohibida. read full story / add a comment

The army spokesman was right - Mustafa died because he threw stones; he died because he dared to speak a truth, with his hands, in a place where the truth is forbidden. [Italiano] [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

It was recently reported by various newspapers that ‘a “notorious gang of anarchists” with links to cash heists is attempting to destabilise the Gauteng ANC’. Newspaper articles [*] quoted ANC provincial secretary David Makhura as saying that an ANC investigation would ‘expose the hidden hand of business people who are fuelling and financing activities that seek to disrupt the functioning of the ANC’. The claims came after a group of disgruntled party members allegedly held an unofficial parallel election to decide the party’s Tshwane leader. According to Makhura the parallel gathering ‘was organised by a notorious gang of anarchists, most of whom have disciplinary cases’. read full story / add a comment

The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front, or ZACF – Zabalaza meaning ‘struggle’ in isiZulu and isiXhosa – is a specific anarchist political organisation based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a unitary organisation – or federation of individuals, as opposed to a federation of collectives – whereby membership is on an individual basis, by invitation only. This is because we have seen – through our own experience, as well as that of global anarchism historically – that we can accomplish more as an organisation, and be more effective, when our members share a certain level of theoretical and strategic unity, and collective responsibility.
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Across South America there is a growing movement – assuming different forms and characteristics, but with similar origins, demands and objectives – that, despite it being located at a strategically important intersection between two critical social issues – class struggle and ecology – seems to me to have received little attention in South African academic and activist circles. And this is true despite the fact that the social and economic conditions that gave rise to this movement prevail in South Africa, as they did – and continue to – in many South American countries. Perhaps this is due to the fact that this movement concerns people largely marginalised by industrial society and so-called ‘brown’ ecological issues – such as the pollution and contamination of rivers and dams surrounding poor communities, most acutely effecting the workers and poor – as opposed to the much more sanitary ‘green’ ecological issues – such as conservation and animal welfare – often associated, in South Africa at least, with liberal white activists from the middle and upper classes [1]. This is the movement of the catadores, as they are known in Brazil, and clasificadores in Uruguay; the recyclable waste pickers and sorters who, similarly to South Africa, constitute a growing informal sector in the industrial production cycle. This includes all people – not formally employed by public or private waste management services – who collect, transport, classify and sell recyclable waste for a living – or ‘work with scrap’ – thus “reducing demand for natural resources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions” [2]. A category of work which, according to the World Bank, is performed by 15 million people globally – or one percent of the world population [3] – and has become increasingly common in South Africa in recent years. read full story / add a comment

En este artículo voy a presentar el desarrollo de la economía yugoslava entre 1945 y 1991, para poder entender porqué esta experiencia no pudo lograr su objetivo de establecer una sociedad comunista en un contexto peculiar, ya que su práctica fue considerablemente diferente a los otros estados comunistas de la época. Explicaré fundamentalmente las razones económicas que hicieron que el proyecto degenerara progresivamente, llevándolo a una crisis económica, política y social que terminó en una serie de guerras de componente fuertemente nacionalista. read full story / add a comment

In this interview, realised between August and October 2010, the Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (Federação Anarquista do Rio de Janeiro - FARJ) talks about its understanding of concepts such as especifismo, organisational dualism, social insertion and the role of the anarchist political organisation in relation to social movements and the class struggle. It also deals with the recent entry of the FARJ into the Forum of Organised Anarchism (Fórum do Anarquismo Organisado - FAO) and the social effects of Rio de Janeiro being selected as a FIFA 2014 Host City, as well as sometimes difficult questions, such as finding a balance between necessary levels of theoretical and strategic unity, and the need to grow as an organisation. [Português] [Français] read full story / add a comment