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Monthly Archives: August 2006
208 East 13th Street – Emma Goldman’s home
New York has a rich history of revolutionary struggle. Sometimes you need to dig through dusty archives to find traces of it and other times you just need to walk down the street. The plaque depicted above, located at 208 … Continue reading
Share on FacebookThe Ends of Politics and Utopia
(From Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, spring, 2001) by Chuck Morse The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy by Russell Jacoby. 240 pp, New York, Basic Books, 2000 The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the … Continue reading
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Murray Bookchin 1921-2006, RIP
Murray Bookchin, my dear friend and mentor, died at approximately 1:20 AM on July 30, 2006. Although he and I had some important differences at the time of his death, I never ceased to love him nor feel tremendous gratitude for all the support, guidance, and insight that he gave me. Continue reading
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Resistencia Libertaria – La oposición anarquista a la última dictadura argentina
Una resistencia amplia y popular se opuso a las dictaduras militares que estrangulaban a América Latina en los ’70. Activistas de distintas tendencias políticas las combatieron, organizada y espontáneamente, y sus esfuerzos sin lugar a dudas salvaron muchas vidas y aceleraron el derrumbe de esos regímenes brutales.
Si bien algunas de sus contribuciones fueron celebradas en libros, artículos y películas, importantes aspectos de la resistencia nunca han sido estudiados. En particular, la oposición anarquista a las dictaduras -que existieron en Argentina, Brasil, Chile y Uruguay- ha sido casi totalmente marginada de los estudios históricos.
La siguiente entrevista repara de algún modo esa omisión. Cuenta la historia de Resistencia Libertaria, una organización clandestina anarquista fundada antes de que los militares argentinos tomaran el poder en 1976. Continue reading
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New Book: Fragmenting power: social movements as anti-statist powers
One of the more significant writers to emerge out of the Latin American left in recent years–Uruguayan journalist Raul Zibechi–has just released a new book: Dispersar el poder: los movimientos como poderes antiestatales (trans.: Fragmenting power: social movements as anti-statist … Continue reading
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