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Zibechi: From the Bagua Massacre to autonomous government
By: Raúl Zibechi The formation of Peru’s first autonomous government, on Sunday, November 29 in Soledad community in the Río Santiago District, in the Amazon Province, is the fruit of a long history of frustrations and struggles. That day,…
Read MoreZibechi: Movements facing the end of the democracies
By: Raúl Zibechi In his first 2016 article, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, Paul Krugman, analyzes the consequences of the domination of the oligarchy’s money in his country’s political system. Under the title “Privileges, pathology and power”…
Read MoreZibechi: Domination and resistance in the favela
By: Raúl Zibechi Pedestrians are the kings to whom cars must surrender. Perhaps it’s the biggest difference between the favela and the asphalt, something neither the media nor analysts of the system repair. The street is the paradise of the…
Read MoreZibechi: The old mole pierces stone
By: Raúl Zibechi Secondary students brought down the Sao Paulo state government headed by the neoliberal Geraldo Alckmin, who had to withdraw his reorganization plan for the education system faced with massive rejection and strong youth mobilization. In these times…
Read MoreZibechi: The storms that are coming
By: Raúl Zibechi The end of the progressive cycle implies the dissolution of hegemonies and the beginning of a period of dominations, of greater repression against the organized popular sectors. Until now we have been commenting on the causes of…
Read MoreZibechi: The End of the progressive cycle accelerates
By: Raúl Zibechi Each one chooses the place from which she views the world, but that choice has consequences and it determines what she can see and what irremediably escapes her. The point of observation is never a neutral place,…
Read MoreRaúl Zibechi: Toward a new cycle of struggles
By: Raúl Zibechi The noisy fall in the price of raw materials closes an economic cycle, but also a political one. The illusion that we’re dealing with a momentary decline is giving way to the conviction that the low prices…
Read MoreZibechi: New colonialisms and left values
NEW COLONIALISMS and the CRISIS OF LEFT VALUES By: Raúl Zibechi When visibility is minimal because powerful storms cloud the perception of reality, it may be appropriate to enlarge one’s view, to climb slopes to look for broader observation points,…
Read MoreZibechi: Red-hot interest in Fanon
THE RED-HOT CURRENCY OF FANON By: Raúl Zibechi Frantz Fanon’s thinking has returned. Five decades after his death, his books are being read again in universities and in spaces of the organized popular sectors. Some of his central reflections enlighten…
Read MoreDecolonizing critical thought and rebellions II
By: Gilberto López y Rivas/II The construction of another world in Latin America, according to Raúl Zibechi, is being carried out by means of organizations not state-centric nor hierarchical, which at times don’t even have permanent leadership teams and, as…
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