South African bosses suspend 15,000 gold miners over wildcat strike
Submitted by working class s... on Sep 10 2012 13:35
In the South African region of West Rand, Gold Fields, one of the world’s largest producers of gold have suspended 15,000 miners who yesterday took unofficial strike action, and are currently seeking a court injunction to bring the strike to an end.
Reasons for the strike are not 100% clear; however, it is believed that dissatisfaction with local NUM branch leadership, and demands for improved pay are the main causes of the dispute.
Throughout the mining disputes across South Africa, workers are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the approach of the NUM to negotiating with the bosses.
Hondurans burn government buildings, demand that US drug enforcement agencies leave
Submitted by AnaMore on May 19 2012 03:03
After US DEA agents shot 4 villagers in northeastern Honduras, angry residents burned government offices and demanded that the DEA leave.
"Protesters in Honduras have burned down government offices and demanded that US drug enforcers leave the area following the fatal shooting of four people.
Two men and two pregnant women were shot dead in a boat on the Patuca River in north-eastern Honduras on Friday, local officials say.
Non-Western Anarchisms: Rethinking the global context
Written by Jason Adams as an attempt to reconceptualize the history and theory of first-wave anarchism on the global level, and to reconsider its relevance to the continuing anarchist project.
Manifesto of the Federación Anarquista Revolucionaria de Venezuela
Manifesto of the newly formed Federación Anarquista Revolucionaria de Venezuela (FARV), an anarchist political organization based in Venezuela.
1) The Federación Anarquista Revolucionaria de Venezuela is a collective that adopts the ideology of Libertarian Communism, a system where both capitalism and the bourgeois State that supports it are abolished, where the people as the producers of goods and services have control of what is produced in the form of collective ownership, where such production is distributed according to the principle
Chilean miners strike and join wave of protest against government
Submitted by Ramona on Aug 4 2011 11:04
Strikes in Chilean mines strengthen workers' struggles throughout the copper industry, and reflect growing political unrest in Chile.
2,300 miners at Chile's Escondida copper mine - the largest in the world - have been out on strike since 22nd July, and were joined by 7,000 contractors on 27th July. The mine is privately owned by Australian firm BHP.
Saint Che: The Truth Behind the Legend of the Heroic Guerilla, Ernesto Che Guevara
In this text, Gambone gives a unique and concise perspective on the life of Guevara, when there are precious few written anarchist perspectives on the Cuban Revolution in general, and helps us move beyond the baggage of the Marxist-Leninist Left, while keeping it in perspective.
“Che was the most complete human being of our age.”
— Jean Paul Sartre
What is the International Circle of Antibolshevik Communists?
Submitted by Spassmaschine on Jan 18 2010 02:39
Statement by the Círculo Internacional de Comunistas Antibolcheviques on its origins and purpose.
The International Circle of Antibolshevik Communists (ICAC) is an online group of revolutionary militants from various countries and diverse backgrounds, established for the purpose of reciprocally stimulating our common development and spreading and bringing up to date the revolutionary thought of the working class.
Manifesto of the International Circle of Antibolshevik Communists
Submitted by Spassmaschine on Jan 18 2010 02:32
Manifesto of the Círculo Internacional de Comunistas Antibolcheviques, a Latin American grouping of communist militants.
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The antibolshevik communists think that capitalism is currently in its historical stage of full decline.
Especifismo: The anarchist praxis of building popular movements and revolutionary organization in South America by Adam Weaver
The theory and history of Especifismo explained and elaborated on and its similarities and differences with Platformism.
Within the broad anarchist movement, we stand in the tradition advocating the need for an organized
and disciplined anarchist political organization The "Alliance" in the First International was an early
example of this model, but it was one of many such forces. In 1926, Nestor Makhno, Peter Arshinov
and others restated this approach in the classic "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian
Latin American Anarchism by Chuck Morse
A review of three Spanish-language books on anarchism in Latin America
There are important reasons for anarchists in English-speaking parts of North America to study the history of Latin American anarchism.
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