Anonymous Comrade writes:

"J20 Inaugural: A Day of Vulnerability for Power"

No one needs reminding that the latest episode in the demolition of American “democracy” has been a hard blow to those in that unfortunate land who are still awake and clinging to sanity, as well as to everyone in the rest of the world, for whom this election is obviously no laughing matter either. However a day of real and unavoidable vulnerability for the Bush junta and its claim to a popular mandate is approaching.

Inauguration day — January 20 — is that moment of condensed, ritualized spectacle toward which all the machines for the production of consent and legitimacy still have to aim. On this day the succession of power — and thus the processes behind it — must expose itself to view in order to become its own self-affirming image, and this moment of exposure cannot be avoided. For this reason January 20 is a real opportunity to denounce that which threatens us and possibly to do it damage on its own symbolic terrain.

nolympics writes

Over 16,000 Converge at Fort Benning

Many Scale Barbed-Wire Fences and are Arrested While Calling for Closure of US Army’s School of the Americas

Columbus, GA – Over 16,000 people from across the Americas — including actors Martin Sheen and  Susan Sarandon — gathered this weekend outside the gates of Ft. Benning, Georgia in the most diverse demonstration yet of opposition to the School of the Americas (SOA), a combat-training school for Latin American soldiers.

Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, and forced into refuge by graduates of the SOA, renamed in 2001 the Western Hempishere Institute for Security Cooperation or WHINSEC.

"Leftwing Looters Raid Shops"

Sophie Arie, The Guardian

A group of 200 leftwing protesters wearing balaclavas, carnival masks and bandanas over their faces, went on a "proletariat shopping spree" in a Rome hypermarket at the weekend, carrying off goods and handing them out.

They swarmed into the Panorama hypermarket on the outskirts of the Italian capital on Saturday shouting "free shopping for all".

After failing to negotiate a 70% discount with the supermarket's manager, the group barged loaded trolleys past cashiers and distributed the goods to a crowd outside.

Police chose not to intervene but later claimed to have identified 87 members of the group, who now face legal action.

The TRiSTERO collective (comrades from greece) writes:

"Critique of the 'Antiglobalization Movement'"

Tristero Collective)

Here is a critique to the “antiglobalization movement” as it was expressed in Thessaloniki during the EU Summit of 2003; about anarchists and antiauthoritarians in particular. This is because we regard ourselves as a part of this radical part of the movement. We deposit, as well, our self-criticism to the way we acted during and after a year in the preparation process, the choices we made concerning alliances, the decisions we took at the very last moment of the big demonstration (on Saturday). What should be taken into consideration is that both the social condition and the movements’ composition in Greece are much different from these abroad (we mean Western Europe mainly).