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 – […]
[Italienska] I Italien matar tv-nyheterna och nyhetsssidorna oss bild efter bild med en verklighetsbeskrivning av den 15 oktober som en dag då ett gäng ligister tog över en god sak och förstörde allt. Bankdirektören Mario Draghi beskriver händelserna i ungefär samma ordalag. Vissa, som Bersani, går längre. Han har bett Maroni rapportera till parlamentet under […]
Article originel ici traduction Serge Quadruppani « Tandis que nous écrivons, les hélicoptères de la police bourdonnent encore dans le ciel de Rome et on aperçoit la fumée des barricades entre les immeubles du centre. Roma’s burning ! La journée de l’indignation en Italie semble ne pas vouloir finir, parmi les foyers de révolte encore éparpillés […]
Nous, étudiants, travailleurs précaires, chômeurs, activistes et militants d’Europe et d’Afrique du Nord, nous sommes rencontrés en Tunisie au meeting transnational “Réseau de luttes ” du 29 septembre au 2 octobre 2011. Nous avons croisé nos savoirs et nos expériences collectives : nous sommes en train de créer un processus commun de luttes à partir de nos différentes pratiques. La […]
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 […]
Cameron avait annoncé qu’il n’y aurait pas de pitié, et la pitié – obéissante – a decidé de s’enfouir sous terre, alors que les tribunaux restaient ouverts toute la nuit pour juger les 2300 arrêtés pendant les émeutes. Les jugements ont été lourds. “Exemplaires”, selon la définition des journaux. Pour le vol de deux bouteilles […]
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] […]