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December 19, 2002 - 9:47pm -- jim
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hydrarchist writes:


This essay was published in the most recent New Left Review.

"New Revolts Against the System"

Immanuel Wallerstein

I coined the term "antisystemic movement" in the 1970s in order to have a formulation that would group together what had,
historically and analytically, been two distinct and in many ways rival kinds of popular movement -- those that went under the
name "social", and those that were "national". Social movements were conceived primarily as socialist parties and trade unions;
they sought to further the class struggle within each state against the bourgeoisie or the employers. National movements were
those which fought for the creation of a national state, either by combining separate political units that were considered
to be part of one nation -- as, for example, in Italy -- or by seceding from states considered imperial and oppressive by the nationality
in question; colonies in Asia or Africa, for instance.

December 14, 2002 - 1:57pm -- hydrarchist
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Anonymous Comrade writes "This article was printed in issue 222 of the British magazaine 'Black Flag'


The campaign "Against the Europe of the Capital" was a network of
activist groups, indymedia, and actions against the European summits in
Spain during the Spanish presidency of the EU from January to June
2002. The most important summits were Barcelona, Madrid and Sevilla.
However the campaign appears to have been a step back for the
anticapitalist movement after Prague and Genoa. Reformism, a lack of
direct action, failure to use blockades and a lot of police were some
reasons for this retreat.

December 12, 2002 - 3:45pm -- jim
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hydrarchist writes:

A Call to Create an Alternative Anti-Capitalist Village


This year the G8 will meet in Evian, France, a mountainous region in the
Haute-Savoie. The G8 leaders and the leading figures of the international
financial institutions (IMF, World Bank etc..) arrogantly assume the right to
rule our lives according to the logic, needs and desires of Capitalism. Not
one corner of the earth will be left untouched; the market economy rule over
every aspect of our lives. And the consequences for us are as predictable as
ever -- rising poverty, war and repression.

December 4, 2002 - 10:14am -- hydrarchist
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Anonymous Comrade writes

"23 Arrests for Genoa: The Wave of Repression Rolls Onwards in Italy Updated


Searches and arrests have taken place throughout Italy in the last twelve hours related to the investigation of the confrontation and property damage that occurred there during the days of the G8 summit.


The arrests were requested by the prosecuting magistrates Anna Canepa e Andrea Canciani, approved and ordered by the judge Elena D'Aloisio and carried out by the political police, Digos.


Unlike those arrested on order of the judges in the south, all of whom were released yesterday after twenty days detention, those arrested today have been charged with specific offences, including criminal damage, looting, manufacture, possession and explosive material, arson, carrying of improper arms and resistance to public officials. Amongst those arrested is a young Genovese barman Massimiliano Monai who was beside Carlo Giuliani when he was killed.


Nine people are now in custody, the others are under either house arrest or have restrictions placed on their movements and have to report to police stations.

November 28, 2002 - 5:45pm -- nomadlab
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Canadian Students Organize Anti-War Conference writes "Students Against Sanctions and War in Iraq (SASWI)


Open call to all students across Canada and Québec


Pan-Canadian Student Anti-War Conference
January 30 to February 2, 2003
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario


Opposition to a new war on Iraq is growing worldwide. In Britain, over
400,000 people marched against war at the end of September, including
thousands of students from all over Britain. The mobilization on October
26 of 100,000 in Washington, D.C. and 60,000 in San Francisco brought many
thousands of students onto the streets to oppose the war against Iraq. And
in Britain on October 31, dozens of protests took place at universities
and colleges, including occupations at Cambridge University, Liverpool,
Manchester, Brighton, and Leeds. In Sheffield, 500 students occupied a
faculty building sponsored by Boeing. In London there were occupations at
Goldsmith's, King's College, the London School of Economics, and many
others.

November 22, 2002 - 11:38am -- jim
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Anonymous Comrade apf writes:

The main anarchist's protest against NATO summit in Prague was
attended by around 4 000 people at the strongest moment. People
gathered on Namesti Miru square and then marched to the working class
area of Nusle under the Congress center where actual NATO summit take
place. March was joined also by a smaller one of the Eastern Europe
anarchists which started on another place.

November 20, 2002 - 9:44pm -- jim
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Anti-Imperialist Initiative writes

We are a forum centered in Copenhagen and composed of groups and individuals with a feminist, lesbian and/or revolutionary left-wing orientation. Our goal is to develop methods of revolutionary and anti-capitalist analysis in the service of creating a space for radical feminist, transgender, bisexual, and/or heterosexual women in the anti-imperialist activities that are to take place at the Summit in Copenhagen between December 13th and 15th.

November 18, 2002 - 1:46pm -- hydrarchist
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Silence in the Mexican south

The Zapatistas have now retreated into silence

By Nick Caistor in Chiapas

A tiny old man wearing a green oilskin hat and a red poncho
comes shuffling up to me in the street. He's got a huge
plastic bag hanging down his back, held on by a strap across
his forehead, and he wants to sell me whatever is in it.

He is one of the majority of indigenous people who live in
this region in Mexico's deep south.

November 18, 2002 - 10:45am -- jim
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Harry/DAF-København writes:

"The Art of Keeping Your Mouth Shut:"

An Invitation to the European Union Summit in Copenhagen, 12-14 December

It's hopelessly un-modern to disagree with the people in power these days. Even organisations that should be in opposition to the capitalistic world order, are busy convincing themselves, and in particular the state, that they do not pose any real treat to the established order. What they want is just to change a "few minor details" here and there. The reason for this sickening reformist way of thinking can be found in a deeply seated fear of being labelled "Radical", or even worse: Terrorists...

November 5, 2002 - 12:44pm -- jim
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Kate Crane writes:

What's the sound of a groundswell?

Monday, in the rain in front of the United Nations, it
was cries of "No blood for oil! Hands off Iraq!"
emanating from activists, some of whom were being
forced into paddy wagons by a gang of New York's
finest.

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