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southern africa / history / opinion / analysis Tuesday December 09, 2014 15:41 by Warren McGregor 1 image
Today the terms “populism” and “workerism” are widely thrown about in South African political circles. Often, these terms and others (“syndicalism,” “ultra-left,” “counter-revolutionary,” “anti-majoritarian” …) have no meaning: they are just labels used to silence critics. SA Communist Party (SACP) leaders do this often. But in the 1980s, “populism” and “workerism” referred to two rival positions battling for the soul of the militant unions. These debates, thirty years on, remain very relevant: let us revisit them, and learn. Today’s radical National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) was part of the “workerist” camp, while its key rival, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was identified with “populism.” The early battles over the direction of the Congress of SA Trade Unions (COSATU) still echo today, although there is no longer a clear “workerist” camp. read full story / add a comment
southern africa / history / opinion / analysis Saturday December 06, 2014 23:58 by Bongani Maponyane 1 image
The massacre of South African school children in 1976 – for protesting for instruction in their native languages and for a proper curriculum – continues to be remembered and to influence us today. It showed the brutality of the apartheid state and it left scars still felt by people today. The challenges faced by youth today are different to that experienced in 1976. This does not mean everything has changed. We need to look to history to learn about and not to repeat mistakes made. But we also look to history to provide us with inspiration. We need to revisit the spirit of the youth of 1976 and copy their courage – to overcome these issues facing our young people today. We need to be the change that we want to see. read full story / add a comment
볼세비키 정권의 반혁명적 성격과 그 결과를 러시아혁명의 상황에서 서술 read full story / add a comment
france / belgique / luxembourg / histoire / opinion / analyse Tuesday November 11, 2014 05:30 by Commission internationale AL 1 image
L’année 1974 est marquée par des mouvements revendicatifs dans les secteurs des services. Successivement, dans les banques, aux PTT, plus modestement à la SNCF, ces grèves vont faire souffler une brise de créativité et d’auto-organisation directement liée à la force de projection de Mai 68. Mais c’est bien la grève des PTT, par sa capacité à bousculer la marche normale de la société, qui sera le pivot de cette année sociale. read full story / add a comment
netherlands / germany / austria / history / opinion / analysis Friday November 07, 2014 21:40 by Jonathan Payn 1 image
A "revolutionary alternative from below" that was not quite to be but holds pertinent lessons for movements today.
Our latest issue of Workers World News continues our educational series on "united fronts" with a focus on the Workers’ Council Movement in Germany, 1920-1923.
• Part 1: NUMSA and the ‘United Front Against Neoliberalism’ • Part 2: Anti-militarist United Fronts and Italy’s “Red week”, 1914 • Part 3: The 1917 Russian Revolution and United Front read full story / add a comment
netherlands / germany / austria / history / opinion / analysis Thursday October 16, 2014 17:40 by Jonathan Payn 1 image
In the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik Party, together with other revolutionaries, overthrew the Provisional Government established in February and – together, initially, with left Social Revolutionaries – seized power. How did the Bolsheviks – a minority just eight months earlier, when the February Revolution overthrew the Tsar and established the Provisional Government – come to power so quickly? How did this small force emerge from relative obscurity to win large sections of the working class to its programme and take power? Herein lies the root and essence of United Front policy in a traditional Marxist sense.
First published in issue 88 of Workers World News
• Part 1: NUMSA and the ‘United Front Against Neoliberalism’ • Part 2: Anti-militarist United Fronts and Italy’s “Red week”, 1914 • Part 4: United Working Class Action and the Workers’ Council Movement in Germany, 1920-1923 read full story / add a comment
bolivia / peru / ecuador / chile / historia / opinión / análisis Monday October 13, 2014 01:51 by Espartaco Gatti 1 image
Publicado originalmente en la edición n°25 del periódico anarquista chileno Solidaridad. read full story / add a comment
north america / mexico / history / anarchist communist event Monday October 06, 2014 10:16 by Wayne Price 1 image
New York City, NY, USA Wayne Price will be speaking at Bluestockings bookstore (172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington - 1 block south of Houston and 1st Avenue) on Oct. 29, Wed., 7pm: read full story / add a comment
francia / belgio / lussemburgo / storia / opinione / analisi Saturday September 20, 2014 16:59 by Marco Casalino 1 image
Chi erano gli Enragés, chi faceva parte del movimento e quali obiettivi si
proponevano di realizzare? Mio obiettivo è di fare una breve descrizione del loro pensiero
politico lasciando volutamente senza risposta la domanda che da decenni gli storici si
pongono: il movimento degli Enragés può essere considerato un predecessore della corrente
anarchica? read full story / add a comment
southern africa / history / opinion / analysis Wednesday September 03, 2014 17:34 by Jonathan Payn 1 image
The United Front tactic – aimed at uniting masses of workers in action and winning Communist leadership for the working class – was adopted as policy by the Communist International (Comintern) in 1921 and will be discussed later in this series. However, there are important examples of working class unity in action which predate Comintern policy and bear relevance to the united fronts discussion. One often-cited example is the united front to defend the gains of the February Revolution from a military coup in Russia in 1917, which will be discussed in the next article in this series. Before looking at this, however, there is another example of proletarian unity in action – that didn’t seek to win Communist leadership – which warrants attention; that of a revolutionary worker-peasant alliance. This conception of united front action found expression in Italy’s anti-militarist “red blocs” and it is to these that we now turn. First published in issue 87 of Workers World News • Part 1: NUMSA and the ‘United Front Against Neoliberalism’ • 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
italia / svizzera / storia / altra stampa libertaria Sunday August 24, 2014 17:13 by Gianni Sartori 7 comments (last - saturday april 29, 2017 02:40)
A 35 anni dalla morte di quattro compagni autonomi vicentini un ricordo di chi comunque ha lottato per un mondo senza servi né padroni... read full story / add a comment
brazil/guyana/suriname/fguiana / história / link para pdf Wednesday August 20, 2014 05:30 by Grupo de Estudos Anarquistas do piauí 1 image
Coincidindo com a data aclamada como o "dia do Historiador" (19.08.), disponibilizamos a tradução de parte do livro "Escritos de filosofía politica - Vol I", uma compilação de textos de Mikhail Bakunin realizada por G. P. Maximoff. O Capítulo chama-se "Filosofia da História", e acreditamos que não servirá somente axs historiadorxs, mas para tod@s militantes anarquistas. read full story / add a comment
international / history / opinion / analysis Friday August 08, 2014 23:47 by Mark Kosman 1 image
In 1871, Karl Marx wrote that governments use war as a fraud, a ‘humbug, intended to defer the struggle of the classes’. In 1914, that fraud was so effective that not only most workers but also most Marxists supported their respective nation’s rush to war. Ever since then, governments have used war to defer class struggle and prevent revolution. But this strategy cannot last forever.[1] read full story / add a comment
italia / svizzera / storia / evento comunista anarchico Sunday June 15, 2014 18:19 by Alternativa libertaria 1 image
Il 7 giugno 1914, ad Ancona si svolgono dei disordini tra lavoratori anconetani (principalmente portuari e ferrovieri appartenenti a sindacati autonomi di indirizzo socialista ed anarchico) e forze dell'ordine, schierate per difendere la parata militare celebrativa dello Statuto Albertino. Ancona è all'epoca una città che ha già avuto numerose esperienze di rivolte e sollevamenti popolari: dai moti del pane del 1898 agli scioperi del 1913. In quel periodo inoltre si assisteva alla creazione di un fronte comune di diversi movimenti e sindacati, uniti dall'antimilitarismo. L'opposizione alle politiche di guerra non era una lotta puramente ideologica. read full story / add a comment
Ελλάδα / Τουρκία / Κύπρος / Ιστορία (γενική) / Γνώμη / Ανάλυση Saturday May 10, 2014 21:53 by Dmitri 1 image
Να θυμόμαστε τον Μάη τιυ 1936 (και όχι μόνο) read full story / add a comment
west africa / history / opinion / analysis Thursday May 01, 2014 21:46 by Warren McGregor
The origin of May Day, International Workers Day, lies in the historic fight for decent working hours that culminated in the execution of four trade unionists in Chicago, the United States, in November 1887. This was a decisive moment in the struggle for a just society through militant trade unionism. In Nigeria, May Day was first declared in 1980 by the People’s Redemption Party (PRP)-led government of the late Abubakar Rimi in Kano State. read full story / add a comment
venezuela / colombia / historia / opinión / análisis Thursday May 01, 2014 18:56 by Renán Vega Cantor 1 image
“¿Y qué es la fiesta del trabajo? Sencillo es comprenderlo: así como los santos y los acontecimientos celebres tienen su fiesta, el trabajo también tiene la suya. Y después de los domingos, que son días de descanso, ésta será la única fiesta que los obreros debemos guardar y respetar”. Manuel Antonio Reyes, dirigente de la Unión Obrera, durante la celebración del Primero de Mayo de 1914, El Domingo, mayo 7 de 1914 [i]. read full story / add a comment
Ελλάδα / Τουρκία / Κύπρος / Ιστορία (γενική) / Γνώμη / Ανάλυση Thursday May 01, 2014 09:31 by Dmitri 1 image
H Eργατική Πρωτομαγιά στη δεκεατία του1930 ΤΟΥ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗ ΤΡΩΑΔΙΤΗ *Αποσπάσματα από τις σελίδες του "Ούτε Θεός-Ούτε Αφέντης" στο http://ngnm.vrahokipos.net read full story / add a comment
Ιβηρική / Ιστορία (γενική) / Γνώμη / Ανάλυση Sunday February 09, 2014 18:29 by Agustin Guillamon 1 image
Η ιστορία είναι ένα ακόμη πεδίο μάχης μεταξύ των πολλών που υπάρχουν στον ταξικό πόλεμο. Δεν πρόκειται απλώς για ένα ζήτημα ανάκτησης της μνήμης των ταξικών αγώνων του παρελθόντος αλλά και μια μάχη για την ιστορία από επαναστατική σκοπιά, δηλαδή από την σκοπιά της υπεράσπισης των ιστορικών συμφερόντων του προλεταριάτου, η οποία δεν μπορεί να είναι άλλη από την θεωρητικοποίηση των ιστορικών εμπειριών του διεθνούς εργατικού κινήματος. read full story / add a comment
bolivia / peru / ecuador / chile / historia / non-anarchist press Wednesday September 18, 2013 21:52 by Jan Malewski
Franck Gaudichaud es profesor universitario, colaborador de Le Monde Diplomatique y miembro de los colectivos editoriales de las revistas ContreTemps, Dissidences y del portal Rebelion.org. Hace ya varios años que investiga sobre la historia y actualidad de Chile y en particular del movimiento obrero durante la Unidad popular (1). A 40 años del golpe de Estado del 11 de septiembre de 1973, acaba de publicar en Francia dos libros importantes sobre el tema. El primero, Chili: mille jours qui ébranlèrent le monde, Le gouvernement Allende vu par en bas (1970-1973) – Chile, mil días que estremecieron al mundo. El gobierno Allende desde abajo (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2013), nacido de una tesis de doctorado realizada bajo la dirección de Michael Löwy, analiza la discordancia de tiempos entre las luchas sociales y el tiempo institucional del Gobierno de Allende, así como el nacimiento de los “cordones industriales” y la dinámica colectiva del proyecto de la “vía chilena al socialismo”. El segundo, Venceremos (Syllepse, Paris 2013), presenta, en francés, varios documentos históricos del poder popular chileno de los años 1970-1973. read full story / add a comment |
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