Cesare Battisti, ‘goodbye mr. socialism’ and ‘new thing’ (27/02/2009)
The two books reviewed below – Goodbye Mr. Socialism, by Antonio Negri, and New Thing by Wu Ming 1, are linked to Cesare Battisti’s record as a militant and the wider movement in Italy to which he belonged. By Leo Vinicius
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Sixty years of Socialisme ou Barbarie (02/03/2009)
Many of the ideas generally associated with May ’68 were in fact inspired by the journal Socialisme ou Barbarie, which is now being made available online. By João Bernardo
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Over fifteen years of collective production and self-management at MST co-operative (12/03/2009)
The Vitória Agricultural Production Co-operative, belonging to Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) has since 1993 practiced a model of production based on collectivism and diversification. By Passa Palavra
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Portugal’s cultural revolution: 35 years on (24/04/2009)
There are many preconceived ideas, widespread and entrenched on these campaigns. Whom it lived, so it only witness what happened. By Manuela de Freitas
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The british direct action movement of the 1990s: part I (27/08/2009)
The 30th November of this year will mark 10 years since the protests at the WTO summit in Seattle. The so-called direct action movement in Britain had a significant role in the cycle of protests which found its high point in Seattle. Here we tell its story. By Leo Vinicius
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The shipwrecked (part I): anti-fascist refugees during world war II (04/09/2009)
The refugees who tried to save themselves by crossing the frontiers: hated by the fascists for being communists, hated by the Nazis for being Jews, and hated by the democracies for their being anti-capitalists. By João Bernardo
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The shipwrecked (part II): anti-fascist refugees during world war II(10/09/2009)
Knowing how to fight one enemy means knowing how to fight another: this sentiment underlay the Stalinist politburo’s attitude towards refugees from the fascist countries. By João Bernardo
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The shipwrecked (part III): anti-fascist refugees during world war II(18/09/2009)
“Save one million Jews! And to do what with them? Where will we put them?” By João Bernardo
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The shipwrecked (part IV): anti-fascist refugees during world war II(25/09/2009)
The ideological breakdown of the left and extreme left at the time cannot be explained if we forget the fate of the hundreds of thousands of ‘shipwrecked. By João Bernardo
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Unemployment, salaried work and “the right to a job” (27/10/2009)
The objective formulated by Louca – for the struggle for work and capitalist organisation of work to mark the present and the future – implies the perpetuation of the current mode of production. By Ricardo Noronha
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Border controls: we are all “illegals”! (06/12/2009)
From the Moroccan coast to Poland, from Cyprus to The Canaries, every day thousands of people attempt to abandon their countries of origin and reach the European continent. The whole way along their route they are confronted with the same repressive strategy: the same barriers and persecution, the same racism and violence. By Ricardo Noronha
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The early russian revolution: Laurat in wonderland – 1 (31/01/2010)
The leftist opposition attacked the relationship between the hand-over of management in the large enterprises to former captains of industry, as well as proposals for militarising the workforce, the suffocation of the autonomy the local soviets had enjoyed and, in general, the elimination of grassroots power. By João Bernardo
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The social fabric of stalinism: Laurat in wonderland – 2 (31/01/2010)
Is interesting that Laurat not limited to show that the Soviet Union had established a society of exploitation and had shown the fragility of the Stalinist economic system, which at first got great success. By João Bernardo
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El alto, bastion of social struggles in Bolivia (05/02/2010)
Even if in the context of the 1952 revolution the centrality of mining workers was indisputable, today the shape of the working class has changed. It is true that manufacturing workers remain an important part of the Bolivian working class, but the casualisation of labour relations and informal economy have created a large majority of the working class facing unfavourable conditions for organising. By Bruno Miranda
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From persecuted to persecutors: the lessons of zionism (02/06/2010)
It is not only in the case of Jews that among the persecuted there can be created a nationalist reaction which, finding favourable opportunities for development, is converted into an imperialism of its own. This is a trap which nationalism drags the whole left into. By João Bernardo
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Entre el fuego y la sartén: movimientos sociales y burocratización (22/08/2010)
M
ás allá del debate superficial alrededor de las elecciones que tuvieron lugar el pasado domingo 30 en Brasil, es preciso volver a poner de relieve las actuales (y viejas) dificultades para clarificar las posiciones y los objetivos de las luchas y movimientos sociales que pongan realmente en cuestión y apunten a superar el orden del capital, lo que nos obliga a repensar la cuestión de las formas organizativas que requerimos para transformar el mundo. El siguiente texto, desarrollado como una reflexión abierta e inacabada desde las condiciones específicas del Brasil, y desde el esfuerzo de difundir, apoyar y pensar las luchas del colectivo Passapalavra, apunta a que los movimientos sociales deben ser defendidos, ante todo, del avance de la burocratización. El gran desafío es la generalización de las relaciones solidarias y colectivas establecidas directamente en la base de los movimientos sociales. Por Passa Palavra
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La “reconquista del territorio” (03/12/2010)
¿Cuál es el significado de las UPP en el contexto de la geopolítica urbana en curso, y se trata de diferentes aspectos? By Marcelo Lopes de Souza
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Self-managed socialism: possible, urgent, necessary (27/07/2011)
Looks at advantages and limitations of the Latin American experience of workers trying to overcome capitalist work relations through their control of their workplace. By Henrique T. Novaes
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