Latin America

Current tensions and challenges surrounding autonomous popular constructions

Current tensions and challenges surrounding  autonomous popular constructions

From Rebelion dot org by Diego Naim Saiegh

In the following paper, we will investigate certain implications that are currently being exhibited when it comes to carrying out processes of autonomous popular construction - with emphasis on those whose political and methodological perspectives can be inscribed within a libertarian socialist matrix - in a historical context marked by structural unemployment, the growth of poverty and, in general terms, the precariousness of life as a social form. We will try to put forward, through our journey, certain threads of analysis on some problems to be faced according to the aforementioned context, particularly in the framework of our Latin American peripheral societies, and some hypotheses on the challenges to be faced in order to overcome them in an emancipatory key.

After the Social Explosion

After the Social Explosion

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

An Interview with the Anarchist Federation of Santiago

In 2019, significant segments of the dominated classes of Chile gave shape to what is now known as the “social explosion”, a popular uprising of national proportions. The social explosion produced a profound political crisis which forced the resignation of then president Sebastián Piñera and initiated a process which sought to overturn and rewrite the country’s dictatorship era constitution.

Uruguay: Program of the 1st Gathering of Historians and Researchers on Anarchism

Program of the First Meeting in Uruguay of Historians and Researchers on Anarchism
July 13 to 15, 2023
Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, Udelar
(Av. Uruguay 1695)
https://getig.wordpress.com/2023/07/10/programa-del-primer-encuentro-en-...

Call for Submissions for "Cities of Revolt" Book

We invite individuals and collectives to submit abstracts for articles to be included in the book "CITIES OF REVOLT," which aims to: 1) shed light on the anarchist movement that emerged between 1890 and 1960; 2) make visible the anarchist social and spatial production in Latin American cities, understood as spaces that both contain and promote a geography of protest; and 3) highlight the cultural elements (discourses and practices) territorially deployed during periods of revolt (1890-1960).

Brazil: Schedule of the International Research Congress on Anarchism

International Research Congress on Anarchism
November 8-11
São Paulo, Brazil

SCHEDULE
https://3congressoanarquista.noblogs.org/post/2022/10/27/programacao-no-ar/

Day 1 – Tuesday, November 8th

2:30 pm – 1st Virtual Panel: Recovering Fredy Perlman's anarchist social theory, with Uri Gordon (exhibition in English, with translation of the debate into Portuguese)
Broadcast: Terra Livre Library channel on YouTube

New issue of UK anarchist zine Return Fire

New issue of UK anarchist zine Return Fire

Return Fire vol.6 chap.1 now out, & new PGP key

This chapter features anti-authoritarian propositions, social movement analysis, dispatches from frontlines of revolt and from its edges, conceptions of various indigenous anarchisms, odes to play and dis-alienation, the usual repression reports and action methodologies, love letters to the land and bodily practices for rejoining ourselves with it...

Podcast: Mass movements in Latin America

Podcast: Mass movements in Latin America

From Anarkismo

Where do they come from? Where do they stand? What's next?

A member of the Anarchist Federation Rio de Janeiro tells about the developments and incidents in Latin America over the last 30 years. To be discussed are the "socialism of the 21st century", the renewed rise of neoliberalism, the current wave of uprisings in the region and an outlook into the future.

The podcast was recorded at a public presentation by a member of the Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro, held in English on 24 January 2020 in Bern, Switzerland. The event was organised by the Libertäre Aktion (libertaereaktion@immerda.ch).

An anarchist glance at the protest and indigenous president Evo Morales’s resignation

photo not actually from Bolivia

From Act for Freedom!, Bolivia

The defeat of Evo Morales and his Movimiento Al Socialismo (MAS) government, in power for 13 years, stands out in the protests in Bolivia. This defeat was already announced by the referendum of 21st February 2016 (1) and is not limited to election results. The fire in Chiquitania was a very important occurrence against the previous government because it pointed out Evo’s alliance with the cattle farmers of Santa Cruz, an alliance meant to obtain billionaire contracts with the Chinese (2), his anti-imperialist allies. The attack on TIPNIS (3) also played against him. But all in all Evo’s insistence on governing at any price was what led to his defeat in the worst form for a self-proclaimed revolutionary, with street protests.

(A-Radio) Brazil 2020 (1): Em fevereiro tem carnaval - A conversation about Brazil and exile (Part 2)

As Anarchist Radio Berlin we present you the second part of a long conversation about Brazil and exile with two Brazilian activists living in Portugal.

In this Podcast we dive deep into the whole complex of the contemporary history and current situation in Brasil. We publish a long conversation with two Brazilian immigrants recorded in Lisbon in Dezember 2019.

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