Mois : juin 2024

A few words about Workers Solidarity Alliance | Sachio Ko-yin, 2021

Workers Solidarity Alliance was founded in 1984, it is therefore US’ oldest continuous anarchist national organization. WSA enjoys Friends Status with the International Workers Association, IWA/AIT, which was founded in 1922, and is the world’s oldest continuous anarchist international. 

« Some of us were also members of IWW, and without doubt we loved IWW, but also craved a worker’s organization that saw the social revolution as the alternative to the State. »

Cuba since COVID: Communist Party represses social unrest | Boris Milián Díaz – June 2024

Since 2020, there’s been more than 900 people jailed for various acts of dissent. The peak was reached during the demonstrations of July 11th 2021 when the Cuban State shut the door to any possible dialogue between the common people and the rulers. Many intellectuals found this to be a turning point. Mechanisms of social pressure must be used to generate transformations”.

Notes on the life of Eduardo Vivancos 1920-2020 | Reddebrek, 2021

Almost a century in the Libertarian and Esperanto movements

On the 30th December 2020 Eduardo Vivancos passed away at the age of 100. He leaves behind a family and nearly a century of dedication to a number of causes from athletics, Anarchosyndicalism, and minority languages especially Catalan and Esperanto. I think his life is worth remembering and while in the Spanish world his death was followed with numerous tributes and retrospectives, including a feature in Corredor a popular magazine dedicated to running, and a lot of friends mourned him in Esperanto texts, he’s largely unknown in English.

En ligne | «Pacifisme et anti-militarisme dans l’entre-deux-guerres (1919-1939)» par Nicolas Faucier

Considérant que l’Histoire est, au fond, indispensable à la compréhension du présent, Nicolas FAUCIER, 83 ans, militant resté sur la brèche, croit devoir, au soir de sa vie, laisser un témoignage à ceux qui sont appelés à prendre la relève afin de les éclairer sur les difficultés qui les attendent dans leur lutte pacifiste et libératrice visant à désamorcer les entreprises néfastes des hommes de proie qui nous entraînent vers de nouveaux affrontements toujours plus ruineux et plus meurtriers.