The Battle of Cancun
a closer look at the Anti-Globalization/
Global Justice Movement as it mobilized in Cancun, explaining how the
infrastructure of resistance was set up, outlining the aims and
objectives of the mobilization and evaluating the impact of the
various different forms of protest and direct action on the general
proceedings.
High Sea
Adventures
Ocean Crossings in Search of the
Revolutionary Atlantic. So we've been doing the rounds around the
Caribbean, picking up bananas at a variety of ports. Heading towards the
Dominican Republic, our ship the MV Suriname, a four thousand ton
reefer vessel flying under a Panamanian flag, cuts through the breezy
tropical sea at a steady eighteen knots.
Mara Salvatrucha, Social War and the
Decline of the Revolutionary Movements in Central America (Dec
2004)
Once this was a place of great hope. Today it is a region convulsed
by massive delinquency and chronic state corruption whose economies
are surviving tenuously on remittance money sent by migrants.
Days of Crime and Nights of Horror
(2004)
Reviewing: Days of War, Nights of Love: CrimethInc for Beginners
(CrimethInc Workers' Collective, 2001) and Days and Nights of Love
and War by Eduardo Galeano (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983).
Zapatistas
Renew Struggle with Anger and Fire [Jan 1, 2003]
Report of San Cristo'bel demonstration marking 9th Anniversary of
Zapatisata armed uprising
The Writer as Freedom Fighter,
The Freedom Fighter as Writer [late 2002]
If our real desire is to destroy global capitalism, when is the time
to propagate the word and when is the time to act? Is there a time
when the word becomes mute and actions speak louder? And when is the
time that action should once more be subsumed by the word? Such
strategic and tactical questions of praxis underlie the life work of
the subjects of these two books
International
Solidarity In The Light of Global Resistance [June 2002]
Chiapas has been a good training ground for anti-globalization
activists, and an inspiration for organizing and strategic thinking.
Ramor Ryan argues that it is time to renovate existing models of
solidarity.
Autonomy
and a Song (Feb 2002)
Zapatista grass-roots communities began to organise their own
Autonomous Municipalities in 1996. Beyond the usual political
spectrum, beyond State Capitalism, beyond and against modernity and
against the development illusion. Autonomy is the place we can begin
to dream again.
Death and
Terror in Genoa [July 2001]
The walls went up around the old quarter of Genoa, enclosing the
Group of 8 (G8) and their cohorts. Huge heavy walls of concrete and
metal, like medieval fortifications or prison fences, walls to keep
the people out, the world leaders penned in.
Zapatistas in the Light of the New
Era (2001)
Surreal and unimaginable events taking place in Mexico as Zapatistas
arrive in Mexico city
Diez
de Abril for the 21st Century,
a Zapatista Community enters its 7th year on occupied land, the fruit
of the1994 Uprising.
A Carnival of Dreams and the Brazilian
Left (1999)
Brazil and the Landless Movement, a Zapatista gathering in the Amazon
Mayday in Berlin
A description of the annual mobilizations from an
Anarchist perspective
Breakthrough in Chiapas Peace
Process? (2000)
Written at the time of Fox's inauguration
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