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El Cambalache presents: Inter-Change Value
APRIL 1, 2016 7:00 – 9:00 PM OMNI COMMONS, 4799 SHATTUCK AVE., OAKLAND, CA The capitalist economic system has provoked a social rupture and loss of community values, such as mutual aid and bartering or exchanging. This rupture foments a…
Read MoreEZLN: And in the Zapatista communities?
Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico February 2016 To the compañer@s of the Sixth: To whom it may concern: Compañeroas, compañeros and compañeras: Now we are going to tell you a little bit about the Zapatista communities, where the support bases…
Read MoreZibechi: A Left for Century XXI
By: Raúl Zibechi In the ‘60s and ‘70s, those who joined the militancy often heard a phrase: “Being like Che.” An ethic was synthesized with that, a conduct, a mode of assuming the collective action the personage inspired that –with…
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 MoreEsteva: Disputing politics
By: Gustavo Esteva gustavoesteva@gmail.com It will be a year of intense political dispute, in the midst of war. But the dispute among the politicians will be irrelevant. What will be important is disputing politics itself, reclaiming it. On the surface,…
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…
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