Blogs

Without further ado, I share some of the works of art that give life to the fresh community air that is being breathed in Cherán K’eri.

To repress the demonstration, Mauricio Macri's government ordered the City Police to disperse violently the place, beating and insulting the demonstrators present, punching the face and body of our comrade Nicolás. At the moment, he is injured and in solitary confinement, almost in a kidnapping by the State.

Hillary’s paranoid rage and the campaign’s infighting made a mockery of the slogan “Stronger Together”

Now, the way to take will be to create a new model organization: a Confederation of Autonomous Municipalities/Communities.

The official story is that Saudi Arabia, supported by Egypt, the Emirates, Bahrain and other sidekicks in the Gulf, is trying to isolate Qatar from the rest of the Arab world as punishment for betraying the Sunni cause and for financing jihadhi terrorism. Like all lies, this one contains an element of truth which conceals other aspects of the situation which must not be brought to light, much less focussed on.

There seems to be a trend among indigenous communities of increasing vindication of their right to choose their own representatives, rejecting the model of “voting a representative and hoping they deliver what they promised” and instead using their traditional methods to solve the quotidian problems they face.

Reflections on the relation between solidarity networks, workplace groups and class organisation, based on our modest experiences in west London. We see this effort in opposition to the current electoral surge and try to explain why.

I read a book by Lenin and I made some notes. The emphasis in the quotes are mine.

This short essay covers the realities of the nation state that Israel makes explicit as well as personal experience with the occupation.

The truth is, to the authorities, Grenfell Tower tenants didn’t really matter ...It has been left to the survivors themselves and the wider community to organise relief ... they organised in their hundreds and held mass meetings, electing delegates, organising demonstrations. The community has shown itself to be well organised, efficient, extremely compassionate and truly democratic. Everything the capitalist state isn’t.

A review of Wesley Lowery's book covering the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and other activist projects in response to police shootings in the US.

Latest episode of the Living The Dream podcast from The Word From Struggle Street - an anticapitalist blog from Brisbane.

Latest blogpost from The Word From Struggle Street - an anticapitalist blog from Brisbane. An attempt to make sense of the debate in Australia around Corbyn.

The armed assault resulted in the death of three women, one man, a 17-year-old youth, and a baby of just four months.

There was no revolution in Venezuela. Being against neo-liberalism is not the same as opposing capitalism but only one form of it. However, it does feed into the social democratic narrative of Corbynism. Today, in the middle of an election campaign, the assertion that “Venezuela is socialist” is happily repeated by right wing papers and politicians to gloat over the social disaster which Venezuela has become.

À toutes les actions -des riches- correspondent une réaction -du peuple-.

It is a fact that lately certain anarchists have placed themselves in the Corbyn camp. As Freedom News admits, "lots of anarchists have decided they’re going to vote to try and get rid of the Tories".

Whatever the result of the general election, we need to be building a movement capable of creating a better world.

To all action -of the richs-, correspond a reaction -of the people-.

Corbyn, rather than being the saviour of the working class in Britain, demonstrates the futility of even the best of intentions when operating within logic and limits of capitalist democracy.