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international / miscellaneous / opinion / analysis Thursday February 20, 2020 08:01 by Universidade Popular & Movimento dos Trabalhadores DesempRegados
This booklet, called Capitalism, Anti-capitalism and Popular Organisation, is a publication of the Popular University of Rio de Janeiro in conjunction with the Movement of Unemployed Workers of Rio de Janeiro (MTD-RJ).
In this co-edition, we thought that a first and important step would be material that explained, in a simple way, the functioning of the capitalist system and offered a critical and current perspective in relation to it. At the same time, this material should offer more than just criticism. It should present constructive elements that could show ways and possibilities of how to fight capitalism and, also, give some perspectives of struggle in the medium and long term.
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southern africa / history / opinion / analysis Thursday December 12, 2019 14:58 by Warren McGRegor (ZACF)
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The history of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU), formed in South Africa in 1919, is replete with lessons for today's movements. The ICU, which also spread into neighbouring colonies like Basutoland (now Lesotho), Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Southwest Africa (now Namibia) was by far the largest protest movement and organisation of black African and Coloured people of its time. Influenced by a range of ideas, including revolutionary syndicalism, the ICU had both amazing strengths and spectacular failings. This piece explains. read full story / add a comment 
iberia / represión / presos / comunicado de prensa Tuesday October 22, 2019 18:12 by Secretariado Permanente del Comité Regional de CNT Catalunya-Balears
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Somos pueblo, somos vecinos y vecinas, tenemos derecho a decidir nuestro futuro y nuestras vidas. No es una cuestión de banderas ni de patrias; es una cuestión de derechos individuales y colectivos. No solidarizarse hoy con nuestros vecinos y vecinas que están sufriendo la ley antiterrorista es mezquino y nada libertario, no condenar unas sentencias desproporcionadas es situarse junto a los represores. read full story / add a comment 
international / history / link to pdf Tuesday September 10, 2019 21:08 by Jonathan Payn, Jakes Factoria, Tina Sizovuka and Warren McGRegor
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This pamphlet is a collection of articles exploring the concept, history and anarchist/syndicalist approaches to United Fronts – and their relevance and potential for building working class unity in South Africa – written in the context of the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa)’s resolution, following its historic 2013 Special National Congress, to break with the ANC-led Alliance and form a ‘United Front against neoliberalism’
First Zabalaza Books edition, July 2019
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southern africa / the left / opinion / analysis Tuesday February 26, 2019 17:32 by Warren McGRegor
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The question of state government elections and running a Workers or Socialist political party continues to be raised in the working class movement and the Left globally. As we may know, there was excitement about the rise of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party in Britain, left political parties in certain parts of Europe and Latin America and, more recently, certain shifts to more centrist positions in the United States amongst a section of the Democratic Party calling themselves “Democratic Socialists”. In South Africa, many workers and some activists seem cautiously optimistic by NUMSA’s formation of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party that will seek to participate in the 2019 general elections. read full story / add a comment 
África austral / movimiento anarquista / entrevista Monday February 11, 2019 08:38 by Warren McGRegor
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Entrevista con Warren McGregor, del Frente Anarquista Comunista Zabalaza (ZACF), Sudáfrica. Warren McGregor es un activista nacido en los municipios de color de Cape Flats, ahora vive en Johannesburgo, donde participa en la educación de la clase obrera y sindical. ¿Qué es el anarquismo? ¿Quién gobierna realmente Sudáfrica? ¿Debemos formar un "partido de los trabajadores"? ¿Cómo aborda el anarquismo la opresión racial y nacional? ¿Cómo podemos construir el contrapoder de la clase obrera? ¿Cuál es la situación de la izquierda? ¿Cómo vinculamos las luchas por las reformas con la transformación revolucionaria y el contrapoder? ¿De dónde viene el anarquismo y cuál es su historia en Sudáfrica? ¿Hacia dónde vamos ahora? http://anarkismo.net/article/31202 read full story / add a comment 
África austral / a esquerda / opinião / análise Monday February 04, 2019 18:56 by Warren McGRegor
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Um apelo à unidade da esquerda socialista é amplamente ouvido em toda África do Sul, mas ele é frequentemente interpretado como um chamado à unidade da práxis (unidade no programa teórico e na ação). Isso muitas vezes é enquadrado como a transcendência de velhas divisões (estas vistas como antiquadas, sectárias ou descartadas como dogmáticas), e outras vezes como unidade a fim de agir (retoricamente posta como o oposto da teoria de gabinete).
O que nós, anarquistas revolucionários, pensamos?
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southern africa / anarchist movement / interview Tuesday November 13, 2018 19:11 by Warren McGRegor
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Interview with Warren McGregor of the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF), South Africa. Warren McGregor is an activist born in the Coloured townships of the Cape Flats, now resident in Johannesburg, where he is involved in working class and union education. What is anarchism? Who really rules South Africa? Should we form a "workers party"? How does anarchism address racial and national oppression? How can we build working class counter-power? What is the state of the left? How do we link fights for reforms to revolutionary transformation and counter-power? Where does anarchism come from and what is its history in South Africa? Where to now? read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / the left / opinion / analysis Saturday July 21, 2018 05:45 by Warren McGRegor
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A call for socialist Left unity is heard widely today in South Africa, but is usually taken as a call for unity of praxis (unity in theoretical programme and action). This is sometimes framed as transcending old divides (these seen as outdated, divisive or dismissed as dogmatic), and sometimes as unity in order to have action (rhetorically set up as the opposite of “arm chair” theory). What do we as revolutionary anarchists think? read full story / add a comment 
ibèria / miscellaneous / comunicat de premsa Friday April 13, 2018 03:31 by Secretariat Permanent del Comitè Regional
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Davant l’actual situació política a Catalunya i els fets d’aquests darrers temps, els Sindicats de la CNT de Catalunya i Balears entenem que: read full story / add a comment 
iberia / miscellaneous / comunicado de prensa Friday April 13, 2018 03:28 by Secretariado Permanente del Comité Regional
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Ante la actual situación política en Cataluña y los hechos de estos últimos tiempos, los Sindicatos de la CNT de Cataluña y Baleares entendemos que: read full story / add a comment 
iberia / antifascismo / comunicado de prensa Saturday March 31, 2018 14:28 by Secretariado Permanente del Comité Regional de CNT Catalunya
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«La desobediencia es el verdadero fundamento de la libertad. Los obedientes deben ser esclavos.» Henry David Thoreau. read full story / add a comment 
international / history / opinion / analysis Friday April 28, 2017 18:23 by Muttaqa Yushau Abdulra’uf, Sian Byrne, Warren McGRegor and L
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Let us learn from our past struggles, in the USA and in Malaysia. May Day should be an occasion to reflect not jubilate, to engage not agonize, to demand not relent, and to organise, not complain. We need systemic change that can guarantee equality, fraternity, self-management and socialisation of the commonwealth, guided by a bottom–up approach to decision making. We need a labour movement that is multicultural and international, feminist, active in urban and rural struggles, and that prizes reason over superstition, justice over hierarchy, self-management over state power, international solidarity over nationalism. We need to fight for a universal human community, not parochialism and separatism. The organisational power and strategic location of the Malaysian union movement provides an excellent point of departure for building this counter-movement. This is our appeal and message as we celebrate this May Day, on the eve of dark days in which the storm clouds gather over humanity – but in which the light of hope of a better future can break through, if we arm ourselves with the correct ideas and approaches. May Day began as an example of globalisation-from-below. Let us rally to it. Let us take back its original vision: liberty, equality, unity. read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / the left / opinion / analysis Saturday May 14, 2016 07:50 by Warren McGRegor
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A constant fixation on the machinations of elite power manoeuvring, and persistent, recurring calls for either new leadership, or new political parties, are evidence of a very conservative and authoritarian political culture. These stories may well be important. Indeed, this is the nature of current socio-economic organisation (capitalism and the state). These human-created forms of control always operate to centralise power up the hierarchy, thus investing tremendous power in the hands of very few. This few – race, gender, rhetoric regardless – the ruling class, are those who control the means of production, administration and coercion. Our pre-occupations are drawn to such elite individuals and groups as many of us have chosen to hand over our political power and future to these. Now this political culture usually results in the general and often vain belief and hope that through hierarchical, fundamentally undemocratic organisation, leaders invested with this incredible power are somehow to create the foundations for a more equal society and world. Also important to consider is that all political parties, no matter the colour of its beret, whether in control of the state or seeking to attain this control, centralise the power of decision-making upwards, and are thus fundamentally authoritarian and anti-democratic. read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / anarchist movement / opinion / analysis Monday April 18, 2016 07:12 by Warren McGRegor
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A Presentation at the St. Imier International Anarchist Conference by Warren McGregor (ZACF), August 2012. read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / miscellaneous / opinion / analysis Friday January 29, 2016 17:12 by Warren McGRegor
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Many in the working class hope the 2016 local government elections will prove a turning point. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) won the 2014 elections easily, but its grip is weakening. The ANC-allied Congress of SA Trade Unions (COSATU) has split, the radical metal union NUMSA expelled. The ANC could even lose control of at least one of giant "metro" municipality in 2016, possibly greater Johannesburg or Nelson Mandela Bay - probably to the moderate Democratic Alliance (DA), not the ANC breakaway, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). read full story / add a comment
venezuela / colombia / the left / non-anarchist press Monday December 07, 2015 04:21 by GRegory Wilpert
The current economic, political, and social situation in Venezuela is very complicated, which makes it somewhat difficult for outsiders to make sense of. On the one hand there are many people who defend the Bolivarian revolution, pointing to the successes it has had in reducing poverty and inequality and in increasing citizen participation and self-governance. On the other hand, there is a chorus of critics, not just from the usual suspects on the political right, but often from the left, who criticize the Maduro government's economic management of the country, corruption, the high inflation rate and shortages, and the trial of a high profile opposition politician, who the government accuses of fomenting violence. How did Venezuela get here? What happened since Hugo Chavez's death? Did the project derail, get stuck, hit a speed bump, or crash altogether? In order to answer this question, I will first analyze the origins of the current economic situation. read full story / add a comment 
france / belgique / luxembourg / divers / communiqué de presse Monday November 16, 2015 00:11 by Coordination des Groupes Anarchistes - Région Parisienne
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Face aux violences fascistes d’où qu’elles viennent, nous opposons notre solidarité entre exploité·e·s et notre organisation sur des bases de classe : notre colère se porte contre les dirigeants et responsables. Pour nous, pas d’unité nationale possible : jamais les exploité·e·s ne pourront s’unir avec les gouvernements responsables des guerres et de la misère. Du fait de leur ingérence au Moyen-Orient, les États occidentaux portent une responsabilité face à l’essor et l’émergence des mouvances fascistes. Nous appelons à la solidarité de classe, l’unité populaire des minorités nationales, des exploité·e·s, des travailleurs/travailleuses, avec ou sans emploi, en formation ou non. read full story / add a comment
italia / svizzera / movimento anarchico / comunicato stampa Monday August 31, 2015 16:12 by Coordinamento Libertario Regionale FVG
Nella Rojava la lotta per l'indipendenza si è sviluppata in una rivoluzione sociale. Attraverso quello che i Kurdi chiamano Confederalismo Democratico, che ha una chiara dimensione libertaria, femminista ed ecologista, non si vuole creare un nuovo Stato, ma una rete di comunità che si autogovernano nel pieno rispetto di tutte le popolazioni che vivono o vogliono vivere nel territorio. read full story / add a comment 
southern africa / miscellaneous / opinion / analysis Tuesday May 05, 2015 17:54 by Sian Byrne, Warren McGRegor, Lucien van der Walt
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May Day – a call to build an international movement of working class and poor people across lines of race, nation and religion for workers’ control and democracy from below, social justice and freedom from political and economic oppression – remains critical. In a country racked by anti-immigrant violence, racial and ethnic tensions, the fragmentation of the labour federation Cosatu, corporate scandals and political corruption, it is time to remember May Day’s roots and aspirations. **A version of this appeared in the South African weekly, "Mail & Guardian" (30 Apr 2015). read full story / add a comment |
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