Original article here Translated by ItalyCalling (@ItalyCalling) The 5 day-strike announced by the pitchfork movement is over; but the struggle against the crisis and the blackmail of debt has finally reached the souls of those living on Sicilian lands, and large parts of the movement have announced their will to carry on the protests. Today […]
Original article here Occupiers’ Manifesto here Çiçek: Our demands haven’t been met really although there is a rumour saying the shuttles are going to be free but it’s not because of the occupation I think… Esra: In the beginning we couldn’t imagine that we would need a space like this one, we had some demands […]
Original article in Italian SOPA and PIPA “undermine the internet’s fundamental architecture” professor James Boyle of Duke University said. And he is certainly right. Not by chance yesterday Massimo Gaggi on the Corriere della Sera reported the sarcasm of Chinese newspapers towards the implementation of the censorious barriers entailed by the approval of these […]
Translated by Italy Calling. Fourth year of the crisis: the Autumn of The Struggles is building up. First the huge international day of struggle on October 15 called by the Spanish indignados; then November 11, promoted by the American Occupy movement: a second, fundamental stage of the mobilisations against the elites of global finance. […]
As we write the helicopters still hover above us in the sky and the smoke from the barricades can be seen rising through the buildings of the city centre. Rome is burning! The day of the indignados isn’t finished yet, revolts are still carrying on throughout the city. In the meantime, the political elite – […]
We, students, precarious workers, unemployed, and activists of Europe and North Africa met in Tunisia for the transnational meeting “Réseau de luttes” from September 29th to October 2nd. We shared our knowledge and collective experiences: starting from our different practices we are creating a common process of struggles. The crisis is global, the struggle has to […]
For about ten years, an unprecedented contestation against the economic domination of the world has mounted and, each time, shown a common face: the revolutionary youth. From Argentina in 2001 to Tunisia in 2011, passing through the Palestinian Intifada of 2002, the revolts in the working class neighborhoods of France in 2005, Greece since 2009 […]
From the right to escape to the right to resist. The corollary describes the movement of the working class which, when able and willing to do so, struggles and organizes by deploying conflict in the social territory of origin or, on the contrary, chooses to fight by organizing its movement, heading elsewhere [Y.M. Boutang] […]
The historical moment in which Wikileaks (WL) acts is decisive: – it’s the moment of the crisis of the United States’ military, political, cultural and technological hegemony. The fall of the second Wall of the 20th century (‘Wall’ Street) replicates the calls for glasnost (“openness”) and perestrojka (“change”) because, even if within its neoliberalist characterization, […]
In the end, Vittorio didn’t make it. His lifeless body was found yesterday evening by Hamas security forces, chocked by his kidnappers. Sadly, what all of us were warding off and deemed totally senseless, humanly and politically, came true. This murder is an act against the Palestinian people and an unexpected favour for its sworn […]