In Anti-Capitalism (Seven Stories Press; June 2011), international activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky debunks the assumption that though capitalism is flawed, it is the best system we have. Here, he tells the story of the long-standing effor...

An alternative account of the history of struggles for emancipation

In Anticapitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky gives the lie to the assertion, telling the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart.

In Argentina, the middle class suffered a process of impoverishment throughout the ’90s. There was a new phenomenon called the "new poor"...

El fenómeno de las Asambleas en Argentina es muy complejo, cada Asamblea es un mundo aparte, de modo que voy a comenzar con alguna información general sobre todo el movimiento, para luego hablar de mi propia experiencia como miembro de la Asamblea...

Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications.

Il mio scopo con questo articolo è presentare alcune ipotesi per una strategia dei movimenti di emancipazione anticapitalisti. L'idea è ripensare le condizioni di una politica efficace, che abbia la capacità di cambiare radicalmente la società in ...

Mon but est ici de présenter quelques hypothèses sur des questions de stratégie des mouvements de libération anticapitalistes. Je souhaite réfléchir sur la manière d’arriver à une politique de libération efficace qui nous permette de changer la so...

Me propongo presentar aquí algunas hipótesis generales relativas a los problemas de estrategia de los movimientos emancipatorios anticapitalistas. Me interesa pensar las condiciones para dotarnos de una política emancipatoria efectiva, con capacid...

Contents: Part One: Left Culture of the Present Time/Left Culture Worn Out, 1. For an Ethics of Radical Equality...

¿Qué es ser anticapitalista hoy? Está dicho: la de izquierda es una identidad en crisis. La recomposición de un movimiento de emancipación radical supone, entonces, un examen crítico de nuestro propio legado. Puestos en esa tarea, no tarda en comp...

Radical ethics

Let us face this awkward question: Why is it that, being the Left a better option for humankind, we almost never succeed in getting support of the people? Moreover, Why is it that people often vote for obviously pro-capitalist options --sometimes ...

The President of Argentina, NŽstor Kirchner, has just surprised everybody with an unexpected announcement. Argentina will cancel its whole debt with the IMF at once, before the end of this year. The amount of money to be paid is US$ 9.810 million,...

It is in the front page of all major Argentine newspapers: "the Summit split up over FTAA" (Clar'n); "The US fails to get support for FTAA" (Pagina/12). By all accounts, the Summit of the Americas ended up in total failure. After several weeks of...

A few years ago, Tulio Halperin Donghi, Argentina's most eminent historian, argued that "dependency" or "imperialism" were no longer part of the agenda of Latin American historiography or public debate. This was not due to their lack of significan...

Buenos Aires. The Katrina disaster exposed the lies of Bush's doctrine of "total security". As it has been repeatedly stated in progressive circles in the past weeks, it became blatantly clear that the government was all too ready to protect the p...

(On How John Locke Murdered Juan Carlos de Menezes)

The hidden link between capitalism, social unrest, state violence, and corruption is becoming more and more exposed all over the world. Iraqis do not need to be explained this: George W. Bush is not only killing them on a daily basis, but also pri...

The corrosive effect that capitalism has over democracy is becoming more and more clear. Economic exploitation and the progressive privatization of every single centimeter of the world simply cannot tolerate anything even vaguely similar to Òthe r...

What is capitalism, and what are its weaknesses?

The recent rebellion in Bolivia brought some fresh air for Argentinean movements, at a time when the local political mood seems to be changing dramatically. The image of Bolivians banging pots and pans in La Paz and setting up road blockades all o...

In a rather dramatic move, the Argentinean Congress voted today (21 August) to invalidate two laws, passed by the same Congress in the mid-1980s, that exonerated lower-grade military from the crimes of the last dictatorship (1976-1983) and impeded...

Albert: It seems to me that if movements want to attain certain institutions as a part of their goal, they will need to use organiational forms that foster those institutions and can melt into them, rather than organizational forms that would be n...

After Carlos Menem pulled out from the ballotage, NŽstor Kirchner formerly a governor of a Patagonian province will take office the 25th of May as ArgentinaÕs new president. Kirchner, who had obtained only 22% of the vote in the first round, is no...

On Sunday 27th April, almost one and a half years after the rebellion of December 2001, the first round of the presidential elections was held in Argentina. From that year to the present, Eduardo Duhalde has been in office as a provisional preside...

Another Forum is Possible

Susan George: The first Forum, in 2000, was about analysing the world situation, and I think as a movement we now largely share a common analysis. The second Forum last year was supposed to be more about making concrete proposals. As I understand ...

The first thematic meeting of the World Social Forum in Argentina was held from the 22nd to the  25th of August in Buenos Aires, to discuss the theme of “The Crisis of Neo-Liberalism in Argentina and the Challenges for the Global Move...