Posted in Social Struggles on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Interview by Nathan Schneider
Literary critic Terry Eagleton discusses his new book, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate, which argues that “new atheists” like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens “buy their rejection of religion on the cheap.” He believes that, in these controversies, politics has been an unacknowledged elephant in the room.
NS: [...]
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MST releases photo and public note to society:
The Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST – Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) comes to public to manifest his grief again for the loss of companheiro Elton Brum loss, to manifest solidarity to the family and for:
1. To denounce one more harsh and violent action [...]
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Written by Marie Trigona
Friday, 14 August 2009
The workers at Argentina’s occupied ceramics factory, FASINPAT (Factory Without a Boss), won a major victory this week: the factory now definitively belongs to the people in legal terms. The provincial legislature voted in favor of expropriating the ceramics factory and handing it over to the workers cooperative to manage [...]
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By Javier Auyero, Pablo Lapegna and Fernanda Page Poma
“Since the early 1990s, much of Latin America has witnessed the simultaneous growth of both protest and clientelism (Svampa and Pereyra 2003; Giarracca 2001; Giraudy 2007; Levitsky 2003; Stokes 2005; Auyero 2007; Almeida and Johnston 2006; Shefner et al. 2006; López-Maya and Lander 2006), a twin process [...]
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By Pierre Beaudet (Alternatives)
Published at Rabble
August 5, 2009
The sun is slowly coming down in this northern West Bank village. We are really a few kilometers from Galilee just outside the green line. The sun is slowly coming down in this northern West Bank village. We are really a few kilometers from Galilee [...]
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“The issue of class is important here, not because the workers are angels with whom we may not ever differ, but because their organised power is necessary to make even these democratic demands effective. Even if the protesters were all middle class, I would want them to win. Truth be told, I would want them [...]
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By Comité Invisible
La Fabrique Editions, 2007
“Whatever angle you look at it from, there’s no escape from the present. That’s not the least of its virtues. For those who want absolutely to have hope, it knocks down every support. Those who claim to have solutions are proven wrong almost immediately. It’s understood that now everything can [...]
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By Plan B Bureau
“The biopolitical metropolis is administrated exclusively using governance. Social movements, autonomous forces and all those who truly have the desire to subvert the status quo understand that when a struggle begins one should never commit the fatal error of going straight to negotiate with governace, sit at it’s “tables”, accept its forms [...]
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Posted in Social Struggles on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
JOÃO PEDRO STÉDILE
INTERVIEWED BY ATILIO BORON
See it here, at Socialist Register: http://socialistregister.com/socialistregister.com/files/SR_08_Stedile_0.pdf
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