Posted on September 13, 2009 by adamfreedom
Machete 408 is back serving you up with a new series of postings after a summer hiatus. A continuing state of joblessness and downgrading to a slower internet connection both put a bit of a damper on the political juices that went into the blog. But despite these, there’s a nice backlog of recently published [...]
Filed under: Anarchism, Article Repost, Labor, Latin America, News, current events | Tagged: Advance the Struggle, AK Press, Anarchism, Angel Cappelleti, Bring the Ruckus, CAPE Coalition, EFCA, Employee Liberation Act, Especifismo, Factory Occupations, Honduras, honduras coup, Huerta Grande, Iran, Iran protest, Iranian election, IWW, Jose Antonio Gutierrez, Monthly Review, Oscar Grant, RCP, Workers Solidarity Movement | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 9, 2009 by adamfreedom
A new edition of the “Especifismo Reader: Anarchist Organization and Praxis” has been made publically available. Topping 120 pages, the updated reader includes several newly translated pieces such as the short political statement “Who We Are, What We Want, The Path We Follow” by Coletivo Comunista Anarquismo in Brazil, the article “Anarchist Advances in Uruguay [...]
Filed under: Anarchism, Latin America, Left Organizations, Theory | Tagged: Anarchism, Especifismo, Especifismo Reader, Latin America, Latin American Anarchism, revolutionary organization | 3 Comments »
Posted on May 13, 2009 by adamfreedom
An anonymous and well written reflection piece that begins with a critical look at the Republican National Convention protests in Minneapolis/St. Paul in late 2008, draws lessons from the autonomia and the Italian radical left on the 1970’s, and then looking at the current political juncture of massive economic crisis asks how we can [...]
Filed under: Anarchism, Article Repost, Left Organizations, Reflection, The Movement, the left | Tagged: Anarchism, anarchists, Antonio Negri, Autonomia, Autonomists, Especifismo, protest, Red Brigades, Republican National Convention | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 21, 2009 by adamfreedom
An informal reader has been put together on especifismo, the anachist tradition and practice from Latin America that speaks for the need to form specifically anarchist orgnaization and for ’social insertion’ within social movements. With similarities to the currents of Anarchist-Communism and Platformism, the especifists argue for a particular understanding of the charactor of anarchist organization and [...]
Filed under: Anarchism, Latin America, Left Organizations, Theory | Tagged: Anarchism, Especifismo, Latin America, Latin American Anarchism, Latin American revolutionaries, left organization | 5 Comments »