“Instead, We Became Millions”: Inside Colombia’s Ongoing General Strike
Submitted by R Totale on May 20 2021 18:50
Despite brutal state repression, Colombia’s general strike has continued strong now for 23 days. This article and interview was first published by Crimethinc. Content warning for discussion of state violence including sexual abuse.
Struggle for the Land: Racism, Class, and Solidarity in the Six Nations Land Reclamation
Submitted by greensyndic on May 7 2021 07:30
As the Community Friends suggest, the days when the Canadian government or non-Native vigilantes could drive First Nations people off their land must come to an end. Yet as events, including the police raid and the Citizens' Alliance rallies, have shown, throughout the period of the Douglas Creek reclamation, making those days history cannot be taken for granted and will require much organizing and planning over the part that might be played by non-Native allies.
Green Syndicalism in the Arctic
Inspirational action showing the power of Indigenous land defense and how solidarity can be manifest in significant ways in contexts where companies are working to sow divisions between resource workers and Indigenous communities. A powerful response to those who claim that the interests of resource workers will leave them somehow fundamentally opposed to Indigenous land struggles.
Pipelines, Pandemics and Capital’s Death Cult: A Green Syndicalist View
Covid outbreaks at extractives industry sites bring together shared interests and concerns of the diverse working class—blue collar and white collar workers in various industries, Indigenous people, including site workers. This provides a green syndicalist analysis of these issues and convergence points of resistance.
Bows and Arrows: Indigenous Workers, IWW Local 526, and Syndicalism on the Vancouver Docks
Submitted by greensyndic on Feb 17 2021 04:39
The first union on the waterfront of so-called Vancouver was organized by Indigenous workers, mostly Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh. And it was organized on an explicitly syndicalist basis as Local 526 of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which would become known as the Bows and Arrows. The Bows and Arrows took an active, politically militant approach with a commitment to Indigenous solidarity and organized on a multicultural/multiracial foundation of class solidarity.
That which will become the earth: anarcho-indigenous speculative geographies.
This essay utilizes an anarcho-indigenous/mestize lens to explore how the Guaraní concept of teko'a (tekoha) (settlement/village/community) can lead to different formations of the ways in which we relate to each other and to the earth. It is both a philosophical inquiry that aims to challenge the nation-state and capitalism, and also a practice of speculative geographies that imagines possible futures along with the creation of "a new world in the shell of the old" inspired by Indigenous epistemologies.
On an Island Watch House Bed, A Black Man's Lying Dead
Submitted by Internationalis... on Dec 1 2020 21:02
We are publishing this article to commemorate last year’s shooting in Yuendumu, shortly before the 5th year anniversary of the Sydney Long Bay Jail Killing, and for the 16th anniversary of the Palm Island Riots. Its content is largely reflective of these events and other deaths in custody. We wish to advise Indigenous readers that this piece mentions the names and stories of people who have died at the hands of the bourgeois state.
Overview: Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants
Submitted by Comrade Motopu on Jul 24 2020 06:13
They are not Evo supporters! They are Alteños, dammit!
Submitted by Ed on Nov 13 2019 13:05
Statement from Colectivo Curva on the resistance of the people of El Alto in response to the ongoing coup attempt in Bolivia. Based in El Alto themselves, Colectivo Curva argue that the native peoples of El Alto remember their history of struggle against the Morales government: they do not fight for him and his party, but against an attack on their communities from the far-right coup plotters.
The 26th of January: A Day of Celebration or a Day of Mourning?
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 30 2019 13:03
We present an article from the Internationalist Communists Oceania (internationalist-communists-oceania.netlify.com), a new Left Communist regroupment effort in the Oceania region.
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