“En nuestra lucha, hay mujeres que no dejan que las traten como adorno o que las humillen y desprecien nada más por ser mujeres, sino que se organizan y luchan por el respeto que se merecen como mujeres que son”. –Mujeres Zapatistas- read full story / add a comment

Meydan Gazetesi’nin daha önceki sayılarında yer verdiğimiz Anarşist Ekonomi Tartışmaları’na iki aylık bir ara verdik. Bu iki aylık süreç içerisinde ilgili bölümü, farklı coğrafyalardan anarşist birey, grup ve örgütlerle “seçimler” başlığıyla gerçekleştirdiğimiz röportajlara ayırdık. Bu röportajları yaparken ilgili birey, grup ve örgütlerden, bağımsız bir durum ya da süreç olarak seçimleri ele almaları yerine, o coğrafyanın siyasi-ekonomik gerçekleri düzleminde bir seçim değerlendirmesi yapmalarını talep ettik. Yaşadığımız coğrafyadaki yaklaşan yerel seçimleri değerlendirirken, daha sağlıklı yorum yapabilme imkanı verecek olan bu deneyim paylaşımlarını, bu yazı dizisinde yayınlıyoruz.

Bu çerçevede, doğrudan demokrasi-seçimler; öz-yönetim-temsiliyet karşıtlıklarını düşünme fırsatı bulurken, anarşizmin seçimlere ilişkin sözünün altı boş bir “oy vermeme” kampanyası olmadığını, farklı bir siyasal gerçeklik arayışı ve uygulanışı olduğunu gözler önüne sermeye çalıştık. Yer verdiğimiz farklı yorum ve değerlendirmelerin, Anarşist Ekonomi Tartışmaları bölümünde uyguladığımız hemen sonuca varmayan, irdeleyen, anlamaya çalışan yöntem biçimiyle benzerlik taşıdığını düşünüyoruz.

İlk yazımızda, Avustralya’dan Melbourne Anarşist Komünist Grubu’ndan David; Bulgaristan Anarşist Federasyonu’ndan Zlatko; Anarşist Federasyon (Fransa)’dan Fred ve anarkismo.net’in editörlerinden Şilili José Antonio Gutiérrez D. ile yaptığımız röportajlara yer verdik.

Bu tarz bir sürecin sonunda ortaya çıkacak siyasi tahayyülün Chiapasları, Rojavaları, Taksim-Gezi İsyanlarını anlamada bir bakış açısı sağlamaya katkıda bulunacağını umarak, Anarşistlerin Seçim Tartışmaları’nın ilk bölümünü sizlerle paylaşıyoruz. read full story / add a comment

Lightly edited transcript from Lucien van der Walt’s discussion at 1st National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) Political School, September 2013. From his debate with Solly Mapaila, 2nd deputy GS of the South African Communist Party (SACP) on anarcho-syndicalist versus Leninist views of the revolutionary potential of unions. A version was printed in ASR #61 2014, pp. 11-20

Captures van der Walt’s main points: the debate on the anarcho-syndicalist view that revolutionary trade unions, allied to other movements, creating a self-managed worker-controlled socialism through mass education, counter-power and workplace occupations; anarcho-syndicalism as a working class tradition; the anarcho-syndicalist view that unions can potentially be more revolutionary than political parties including Communist Parties, & be revolutionary without leadership by parties; the view that electioneering can be replaced with direct action campaigns; that the Spanish Revolution (1936-1939) shows unions taking power and making a bottom-up worker-controlled revolution; and how NUMSA’s current actions refute Marxist-Leninist theory; other problems with that theory’s traditional approach to unions; and the implications of all of this for current debates over the form of a new socialist movement in South Africa and elsewhere; and the nature of the South African ruling class and the primary social contradictions.

Lucien van der Walt is co-author of “Black Flame: The revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism” (w.Michael Schmidt, 2009, AK Press) and co-editor of “Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940” (w. Steve Hirsch and Benedict Anderson, 2010, Brill). He has a long history of involvement in the working class movements. read full story / add a comment

Nós militantes anarquistas politicamente organizados na FAG, reunidos no final de 2013 em nosso VI Congresso Geral, vimos compartilhar aos nossos simpatizantes e ao conjunto da esquerda combativa a presente declaração, composta de análise do período histórico em que vivemos; programa mínimo para forjar unidade entre os debaixo e a esquerda combativa, dando uma expressão política e noção de conjunto para avançar na correlação de forças e enfrentar o modelo dominante caracterizado; e elementos de uma estratégia operativa para a presente realidade em que nos inserimos e militamos enquanto anarquistas. read full story / add a comment

La crisi in Ucraina assomiglia troppo a quella che negli anni novanta devastò la Jugoslavia. In Jugoslavia l'ultimo atto della guerra venne rappresentato dall'"operazione tempesta" nella Krajina croata e vide l'espulsione in massa della popolazione serba che abitava quelle regioni da secoli. Analogia nel nome, questione etimologica si, ma che cela la sostanza delle vicende comuni ad una zona appunto di frontiera, Ucraina come Krajina hanno lo stesso significato, terra di confine, frontiera. read full story / add a comment

We, the collectives and members of Ukrainian leftist and anarchist organizations, announce that “Borotba” union is not a part of our movement. During the whole time of this political project’s existence, its members tended to be committed to the most discredited, conservative and authoritarian “leftist” regimes and ideologies, which do not represent the interests of working classes in any way. read full story / add a comment

Articolo originariamente scritto in spagnolo per l'ultimo numero del giornale anarchico cileno "Solidaridad". I fatti recenti che hanno scosso il Venezuela dimostrano non sono il livello di interferenza degli USA nella regione o la pervasiva tendenza a minacciare colpi di stato all'interno della elite venezuelana la quale ben conosce il manuale cileno per una stratega dei colpi di stato. Si evince soprattutto come ci siano tensioni latenti all'interno del modello venezuelano, il quale dovrebbe iniziare a funzionare dal basso, tramite la lotta. Oggi più che mai ai rivoluzionari sono necessari gli strumenti della critica, piuttosto che l'attitudine alla passiva approvazione di qualsiasi cosa decida di fare la dirigenza bolivariana. [Castellano] [English] [Català] read full story / add a comment

Ce texte a comme premier objectif de dresser un bilan le plus honnête possible, afin que nous puissions collectivement tirer des apprentissages de cette expérience. Ce bilan est issu d’une réflexion collective des membres actifs du collectif Emma Goldman à l’hiver 2014. Il reflète donc, avant tout chose, la réalité telle que vécue par ceux-ci. read full story / add a comment

Il rovesciamento del regime autoritario non significa in nessun senso per noi la fine della nostra lotta. Nuovi dittatori sono pronti a prendere il posto del Partito delle Regioni. Essi non si faranno scrupolo nell'impiegare non solo le indebolite forze di sicurezza, ma anche i militanti di estrema destra. Il regime di polizia e di arbitrarietà giudiziaria ha meritato senza dubbio di essere rovesciato, ma adesso potrebbe essere giunto il tempo per un nuovo terrore che giustificherà ideologicamente la propria legittimità. [Pусский] read full story / add a comment

Escrito originalmente para el periódico anarquista chileno Solidaridad. [English] [Català] [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

Solidaridad, Xile -Els recents esdeveniments que sacsegen a Veneçuela reflecteixen no solament el nivell d’ingerència que EUA manté a la regió o la tendència colpista omnipresent a l’elit veneçolana que practica amb detall el manual après de l’estratègia colpista a Xile. [English] [Castellano] [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

Join us for an exploration of the global history and impact of anarchist and syndicalist ideas and strategies with international author Michael Schmidt!
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Desde un tiempo a esta parte, los 'libertarios' se han ganado un modesto pero merecido espacio en la izquierda chilena, de la mano de diversas luchas que, entre otras cosas, los ha llevado el 2014 a la presidencia de la federación estudiantil más importante del país.
Con todo, es preciso tener en cuenta que, si se toma al conjunto de las organizaciones que se definen como libertarias, se trata de una identidad relativamente joven y en proceso de construcción, en buena medida dispersa en lo orgánico y que -se puede reconocer sin mayor dramatismo- no constituye ni de lejos una fuerza a la altura de los desafíos que se plantea cualquier movimiento de intención revolucionaria. read full story / add a comment

Article originally written in Spanish for the latest issue of the Chilean anarchist paper Solidaridad- The recent events that have shaken Venezuela reflect not only the level of interference that the USA maintains in the region or the pervasive coup-mongering trend in the Venezuelan elite which knows by heart the manual of the Chilean coup strategy. It primarily reflects the latent tensions in the Venezuelan model which should start to work themselves out from below, through struggle. Today more than ever we need critiques to be the essential tool of revolutionaries, rather than the attitude of passive approval of everything the Bolivarian leadership does. [Castellano] [Català] [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

Une page est tournée mais l’histoire de l’anarchisme au Québec n’est évidemment pas terminée. Les organisations sont des moyens et non des fins. Les personnes qui ont fait l’UCL continuent de s’impliquer dans plusieurs projets libertaires, dont les éditions Ruptures et le Collectif Emma-Goldman qui poursuit sur sa lancée. read full story / add a comment

The overthrow of the authoritarian regime of Yanukovych by no means signifies for us the end of our fight. New dictators hasten to take the place of the Party of Regions. They will not hesitate to rely not only on considerably weakened security agencies, but on the far right militants as well. The regime of police and prosecutorial arbitrariness deserved its overthrow unconditionally, but now there may come a time for a new terror that will justify itself ideologically. [Pусский] read full story / add a comment

Since 2009 the US state has been undertaking Quantitative Easing (QE), which has involved the US state creating $ 85 billion a month, effectively electronically printing money out of thin air, and linking this to the “purchasing” of paper assets like US government bonds and also more importantly mortgaged backed securities from banks, hedge funds, private equity firms, and asset management companies, which lost their value when the capitalist crisis hit hard in 2008. Through this, these financial institutions and banks have been given up to $ 85 billion a month for the last five years. Much of this money has been used by these corporations to increase their speculative activity, including speculating on government bonds sold by the likes of the South African, Brazilian, Argentinean, and Turkish states. Now the US state has been looking to start tapering QE and speculators as a result are exiting these government bond markets. As this article explores it will probably not be the ruling class (capitalists and top state officials) that suffer the worst convulsions associated with tapering, although they may be affected, but the working class in countries such as South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Argentina and Turkey. This article examines why and how this could take place, how ruling classes from different countries are trying to protect themselves; and why and how the working class will in all likelihood be worst hit. In order to, however, understand how the class war around QE is unfolding it is important first to look at the role states have played during the crisis, along with the competition that exists between states.
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Le renversement du régime autoritaire de Ianoukovitch ne signifie nullement, pour nous, la fin de notre combat. Les nouveaux dictateurs s’empressent de prendre la place du Parti des Régions. Ils n’hésiteront à s’appuyer non seulement sur les agences de sécurité considérablement affaiblies, mais aussi sur les militants d’extrême droite. Le régime de l’arbitraire en matière de police et de poursuites judiciaires méritait absolument d’être renversé, mais maintenant, une nouvelle période de terreur, qui sera justifiée idéologiquement, peut arriver. read full story / add a comment

Finalmente ha salido a la calle José Norbey Lugo Caballero, dirigente campesino del corregimiento de La Marina (Chaparral), afiliado a la Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos del Tolima (ASTRACATOL). Salió libre cinco días después de que el Juez Primero Penal Municipal con Funciones de Control de Garantías de Chaparral, Tolima, le otorgara la libertad. read full story / add a comment

Hace dos semanas, Nosotros los Pobres tuvimos la buena fortuna de poder presentar un taller que contaba con dos integrantes del Frente de Estudiantes Libertarios de Chile, con quienes tuvimos un intercambio sumamente productivo de ideas. Pocos días después, llegue a ver una declaración publicada por el FEL en la cual afirmaban su apoyo al “pueblo venezolano “ en su lucha contra el golpismo. Como miembro de Nosotros los Pobres, quería compartir algunas reflecciones sobre lo que pasa en Venezuela, tanto ahora como a través de los últimos 15 años; espero que sean de interes para mis compañeros especifistas como también para las personas que generalmente se han preocupado por el caso venezolano. read full story / add a comment