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Category: Raúl Zibechi
The dispute for urban territory
By: Raúl Zibechi Seated in a round in which more than 100 persons participate, Mari launches a sentence that is, at the same time, a whole political program: “If those below don’t look at ourselves, no one else looks at…
Read MoreThe subjects of revolutionary waves are the movements, not the States
[Your friendly CompaManuel blogger just bought the book described below and shares some of its ideas through this interview in Spanish that we translated into English.] By FM La Caterva Progressivism seems to be in crisis in a good part…
Read MoreMacri’s war against the Mapuche people
By: Raúl Zibechi “This is the new Desert Campaign, only not with the sword but with education,” said Esteban Bullrich, then Minister of Education and Sports upon inaugurating a hospital and school in September of last year (goo.gl/JxD7Wl). Beyond the…
Read MoreThe colonial State and revolution
By: Raúl Zibechi A century has passed since Lenin would write one of the most important pieces of critical thought: The State and Revolution. The work was written in between the two revolutions of 1917, the one in February that…
Read MoreElections and the powers from below
By: Raúl Zibechi In recent decades the political culture of the left converted elections into the principal barometer of its success or failure, of advances or setbacks. In fact, the electoral conjuncture became the axis of political action of the…
Read MoreThe “democratic” dictatorship of the powerful
By: Raúl Zibechi We’re lacking ideas. The mind doesn’t think with information but rather with ideas, as Fritjof Capra emphasizes in La trama de la vida (The web of life). In this tremendous transition/storm that we experience, we need lucidity…
Read MoreThe era of ungovernability in Latin America
By: Raúl Zibechi On our Latin American continent the global geopolitical disarticulation translates into a growing ungovernability that affects governments of all political currents. Forces capable of establishing order in each country do not exist, nor do they exist…
Read MoreZibechi: They assassinate journalists to discipline the media
By: Raúl Zibechi They are not, they cannot be, the collateral and undesired effects of the war on drugs. Critical journalists are one of the objectives; not the only one, because the principal target continues to be those below that…
Read MoreThe transition blossoms, although we may not see it
By: Raúl Zibechi We are transitioning towards a new, post-capitalist world. In the measure that it is a process we are experiencing, we don’t have sufficient distance to know which period we’re in, but everything indicates that we’re crossing through…
Read MoreElections in the U.S., a society torn apart
By: Raúl Zibechi Los most diverse analyses about the United States elections agree on one point: the current electoral campaign has been history’s most polarized and conflictive. First was the confrontation in the Democratic Party primaries between Bernie Sanders and…
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