democracy

Mexico: Is It Business As Usual?

Submitted by BenS6 on Jul 21 2018 08:43

The recent massive victory of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who headed up a left populist movement in Mexico was greeted with jubilation by the Left in this country and worldwide.

An Anarchist Critique of Democracy

Listen, Gamer!

Submitted by Reddebrek on Feb 2 2018 18:43

Comments about a minor controversy other Karl Marx in a video game.

Down with the Bourgeois Republic! Down with Its Constitution! – Amadeo Bordiga

An article from 1947 by Amadeo Bordiga in which he discusses the debate over the constitution of the new Italian republic, the role of religion and secularism in Italian history, the opportunism of the Communist Party, “conformism” in Italian politics, the incompatibility of religion and socialism, the idolatry of the “sacred and inviolable” rights of the “Individual”, the fraud of political decentralization (which he correctly saw as opening the door of politics to the Mafia), the “demagogic appeal to labor” in modern “totalitarian” ideologies (the goal of the workers movement is “a society founded not on labor, but on consumption”), the illusion of self-management, etc.

夫人VS将军：民主的限制与缅甸的未来

Submitted by sjzc on Oct 17 2017 13:25

近日，由于罗兴亚救世军（ARSA）袭击了缅甸30余座边防警局，缅甸安全部队开始了大规模的反击与清剿，导致大量罗兴亚难民逃亡孟加拉国。因为此次的罗兴亚危机，缅甸国务资政兼外交部部长昂山素季饱受舆论指责，以至于有声音要求剥夺她的诺贝尔和平奖荣誉。

Hysterical populism - Robert Kurz

Robert Kurz on scapegoating, moral panics and conspiracy theory culture.

Voting as Counter-Revolution – how the politicians who gave us the vote saw things 100 years ago

Submitted by Anti War on Jun 7 2017 12:33

A hundred years ago, the British ruling class decided to extend the vote to women over thirty and to working class men. By doing this they hoped to restore people's faith in parliamentary government and thereby counter any revolutionary tendencies inspired by the Russian Revolution. As Sylvia Pankhurst said in 1923:

Vote: what for? - Robert Lynn

Small booklet by Robert ("Bobby") Lynn, Glasgow anarchist, who was born and lived in Calton Glasgow, one of Glasgow’s many slums. Started work as an engineering apprentice in Yarrow’s shipyard, became involved in working class struggle and remained committed to that struggle all his life. Held in the Les Forster collection at Spirit of Revolt Archive Glasgow.

Turkey’s referendum: a win or what...?

Submitted by InderPraxis on Apr 20 2017 11:54

Does the electoral process, any kind of it, justify the dictatorial alteration of Democracy? Are the formation of law and the democratic procedure of decision making enough for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to be a Sultan? The formation of the legal-mathematical formula of the referendum, as in any electoral process, cannot decide and this marginal situation in Turkey unfolds the inner contradiction of democratic political form.