Category: International

Zanon: Happy Expropriated Birthday

The following two short pieces appeared last fall to commemorate the Zanon ceramics factory’s 10 years of operation under worker control. Zanon’s status as one of the iconic international symbols of the Argentinian workers’ self-management movement makes these posts of interest to global English speaking audiences. We are therefore pleased to republish the updates here [...]

Posted: April 8th, 2012 under Economy, International, Labor.

Venezuela from Below

Review: Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle by Rafael Uzcategui (See Sharp Press, 2010) By Tom Wetzel In her essay Latin America & Twenty-First Century Socialism (published as  an issue of Monthly Review last year), Marta Har­necker presents a description of “some features” of a decentralized, self-managed socialism based on direct democracy in workplaces and neighborhoods — [...]

Posted: September 6th, 2011 under International, Reviews.

Interview with Turkish anarchists

Anarşi Kolektifi Ankara (Anarchy Collective Ankara) is a synthesist organization of anarchists  that has been active in the Turkish capital for several years. The Workers Solidarity Alliance decided to conduct a short interview with our Turkish comrades so that we can enhance the global connections of solidarity, learn about their struggles, and apply what we [...]

Posted: March 2nd, 2011 under Gender & Sexuality, International.

Recent Revolts in Africa and Middle East

The current revolutionary wave started 6 weeks ago in a poor working class suburb of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia when an unemployed man publicly burned himself after being abused and humiliated by police and public officials. Four weeks later the dictator Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia. Since then revolt has spread to Egypt, Algeria, Jordan, Yemen, Libya and Sudan. Syrian youths are planning demonstrations and even in Albania protesters have gained confidence from Tunisian example. Now, the Egyptian dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak is struggling for survival and even the mighty Chinese government is taking no chances and censoring the word “Egypt” from the local Internet.

Posted: February 1st, 2011 under Anti-Imperialism, International.

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