Tag: Latin America
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Bolivia: Commentary on the Coup Underway
With the situation in Bolivia in motion, we offer this brief commentary from a Black Rose/Rosa Negra comrade in Latin America on the current situation. By Romina Akemi I am not going to offer a hot take on the situation in Bolivia. But I can offer an opinion as a historian who has studied Bolivian…
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Grow Our Roots: Meet Our Comrades Traveling To South America
As part of our “Grow Our Roots” fundraiser to support our international and media work, we wanted to introduce you to two of our comrades headed to South American this summer. They will be participating in our “militant exchange” and various international meetings with our sister organizations in Chile and Argentina. We are more than…
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A Feminist Movement to End Capitalism, Part II: Between the Feminist Wave and the Green Sea
Black Rose/Rosa Negra is a proud feminist organization. We take our political inspiration from the historical struggles of working class women, including those who carried out their work in the name of other movements or ideologies. While we value the feminisms that can be found in our own neighborhoods and workplaces, we also seek to…
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Feminism is Everywhere: Building a Multisectoral, Transversal Movement in Chile
By This Is Hell! Podcast Live from Santiago, organizer Bree Busk explores the rise of a multisectoral, transversal feminist movement in Chile – connecting the oppression of women, workers, migrants and indigenous people in Chilean society with the power of capitalism, patriarchy and the state, and linking social movements together in solidarity and shared struggle for liberation.…
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Women in the Revolution: The Forgotten History of Las Sandinistas
By La Virgen Memory can be tricky. As time passes bigger chunks are lost, stories have less details, and soon enough the story is buried. Historical memory mimics this on a larger scale with important events and figures becoming forgotten and buried within the history books – with all that’s left being recycled quotes circulating…
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From Below Podcast: Feminism Against Capitalism
We are excited to present the premiere episode of From Below Podcast on International Women’s Days. This coming week we will be releasing introduction episode to meet our hosts Markie and Pedro. For our first episode, released on International Women’s Day 2019, Markie and Pedro discuss two examples of anti-capitalist feminism. The discussion starts around…
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A Public Statement on the Situation in Venezuela From Chilean Libertarian Communists
The following is a statement on the current political crisis and U.S. backed coup underway in Venezuela produced by Solidaridad, a libertarian communist political organization in Chile. In the coming days we will be publishing an additional statement written jointly by anarchist groups in Brazil and Uruguay. For additional analysis we recommend our archive of…
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Socialismo Libertário na América dol Sul: Uma entrevista em mesa redonda, Parte 3, Brasil
Nos Estados Unidos, grande parte da população está passando por um período de aprofundamento político, bem como profunda polarização. As elites políticas estão lutando para manter o controle, à medida que um número crescente de pessoas procura alternativas à esquerda e à direita. Na sequência da eleição presidencial de 2016, as organizações políticas de esquerda…
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Socialismo libertario en Sur América: Entrevista de mesa redonda, Parte 3, Brasil
VERSÃO PORTUGUESA/VERSION PORTUGUESA VERSIÓN INGLESA/ENGLISH VERSION En Estados Unidos, cada vez más segmentos de la población están atravesando un período de profunda politización y polarización. Las élites políticas luchan por mantener el control a medida que aumenta el número de personas que buscan alternativas tanto en la izquierda como en la derecha. Tras las elecciones…