socialism

In the Philippines, one of the poorest countries in Asia, 40 percent of the people live in poverty. Conditions there have sparked a large radical movement, heavily repressed by the government.

Reform? The vultures of finance capitalism are now organising to move in for a killing.

What can we learn from Fidel Agcaoili’s "Rejoinder"?

For years, the evolution of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), of its military wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), and of its politico-diplomatic arm, the National Democratic Front (NDF) has been a subject of discussion within the Philippine Left. The importance of this issue has begun to be felt within the international progressive movement. Still, for those who are not already familiar with the situation in the archipelago, it must be very difficult to fully grasp what is actually happening there. How can normal activists, especially young ones in Western countries, understand a reality so foreign to their own experience, to their own outlook, to the world they live in -so dark and so frightening?

On the ‘bourgeois” nature of Gabriela, Bayon, and CIA directed slanders and attacks on ‘Joma” Sison by Trotskyists.

China is creating its own huge giant multinationals by robbing its people’s savings.

Since socialism was abandon ed the "unprofitable" State sector only exists to provide cheap raw materials to ensure profits for the privatised, mostly imperialist owned export sector.

2008: Will we remain of the problem, or part of the solution to end the gap between the rich and the poor worlds?
The quick world tour for this problem is available here. You do not have to fly "Levellers United". Yet.  Check your own personal income status in the world today. Right here. Now: http://www.globalrichlist.com/

Apologies: Some of the material in this article has been reworked or rehashed and better sourced.

 
* With a lot of rhetoric and propaganda the Chavez administration has advanced different examples of co-management which, they claim, demonstrate their desire to transform Venezuela’s relations of production. A compañero from Europe visited us recently and got to know two of the most celebrated cases: Alcasa and Invepal. Here is the report he prepared for El Libertario # 51 about the actual working conditions in the country’s most “important” co-managed businesses.
 

 * Interview with indonesian anarchist journal EMPTY HEAVEN - May 2007 (http://otonomis.org/ <-- EMPTY HEAVEN collective website; http://pustaka.otonomis.org/ <- indonesian anarchist/autonomist archive). More info in english & spanish about El Libertario: www.nodo50.org/ellibertario

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Tuesday, November 29, 2005