anarchism

Anarchism - Cuba

* El Libertario published in its 51st edition (Venezuela, Novermber - Dicember 2007) a text compilation that expresses important aspects of what anarchism proposes may be done to face the growing problem of gender violence.
 

  by Matt Hern:  Speaking about anarchism and nationalist self-determination is a perilousprospect. In one sense, nationalism has always been anathema toanarchists. The idea of nationalism is in direct contradiction to traditionally reified anarchist ideas of voluntary association andautonomous communities. Yet compelling self-determination movements across 
the world continue to challenge anarchist notions of affiliation, loyalty
and governance. I believe it critical for contemporary anarchists to 
confront that challenge thrusts.

Two New Publications From Infoshop

ººº With respect to the situation in Cuba these past few weeks, the Cuban Libertarian Movement – MLC (affinity group of Cuban anarchists in exile) speaks up to answer the unknowns and the challenges facing Cuban society. Ours is the voice of uncompromising commitment to freedom, equality and solidarity that has always been the sound of the Cuban anarchists.

Anarchy from the UK

'Tradition and Revolution: Collected Writings of Troy Southgate'

Aarhus: Integral Traditions, 2007

329 pp.

* This is a brief outline of the libertarian footprint in the history of Venezuela, prepared by members of the Collective Editorship of El Libertario www.nodo50.org/ellibertario. We hope that this serves as a useful point of reference for those who are interested in the subject.
 

* The threat of armed conflict involving the governments of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela has mobilized anarchists and anti-militarists across the continent, in words and in action, to repudiate what would be a monstrous aggression by state powers against our peoples. Below there are two documents that call for struggle against this evil.

Forty Years on  . The Pitfalls of French Anarchism
The Revolt of May 1968
 
In the late 1960s, students from imperialist countries around the world
demonstrated their internationalism principally through their protest of the
imperialist genocide in Vietnam. much has has been written about the Amerikan story of these movements, in articles about Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and
Weatherman, an underground splinter group from SDS.

The Rudd government and the labour aristocracies unions big test: The indentured labour disguised slavery 457-visa system.
A two-class worker system was created under the last government. Part 1
The Australian labour aristocracy and imported indentured labour workers not having the ordinary rights of Australian workers. Tens of thousands of these indentured workers now work in Australia.
The numbers of these imported workers is expected to expand greatly in the future.

One of the main anarchist websites in spanish language,
alasbarricadas.org, will have to pay 6,000 euro to a rock-star,
Ramoncin, for some anonymous comments in one of their public forums.
Those comments were considered as ‘ofensive’ to the artist ‘honour’.

The trial took place in Madrid, the 12th of September. The judge
found the website guilty of having discredited this mediatic celebrity.
Apparently in Spain it is more important the ‘honour’ than the freedom
of speech and press.