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Raúl Zibechi: Argentina from below

From Desinformémonos (20/11/2023) … With the triumph of Javier Milei, a cycle of Argentine politics closes, a cycle that began in December 2001 with the popular insurrection that overthrew the government of Fernando de la Rúa and his neoliberal policies … Continue reading

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Chile: Changing scale/perspective

This is the sixth of a short series that we dedicate to the memory of Chile’s revolutionaries on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup d’état against the Chilean revolution and the government of Salvador Allende. … Continue reading

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Acapatzingo: An autonomous community in resistance

Societies change from daily local practice, in defined autonomous spaces, because autonomy is the perimeter that protects counterhegemonic practices. Autonomy is the means by which other worlds can exist, worlds that need protection by virtue of being different. When and … Continue reading

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Latin America: From ungovernability to chaos

Raúl Zibechi is perhaps one of the most significant and lucid writers today on “social movements” in latin america. Below, we share a recent text authored by him, in translation. We also share a conference-conversation with Zibechi and Rita Segato … Continue reading

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Chile: The illusions of constitutional politics

Over two days (May 15 and 16), chileans were called upon to vote for representatives for a “Constitutional Convention”. The results were a victory for “the Left”, announcing thereby the end of the Pinochet era constitution of 1980, the neoliberal … Continue reading

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Raúl Zibechi: Rebellions against hegemony in latin america

From Roarmag (21/05/2021) … State, power and society in Latin America: an interview with Raúl Zibechi From state violence and neoliberal extractivism to Colombia’s general strike and Zapatismo: militant journalist Raúl Zibechi reflects on the state of Latin America today. … Continue reading

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Raúl Zibechi: Mapping militant mutual aid

Raúl Zibechi has been actively chronicling examples of mutual aid throughout latin america that are of enormous importance for the understanding of what is politically possible in times of crisis and pandemic. His work can be followed in spanish at … Continue reading

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Evo Morales: The fall of a “left government”

From Raúl Zibechi, reflections on the fall of Evo Morales and a “leftwing” government; a story repeats itself … Bolivia: The Extreme Right Takes Advantage of a Popular Uprising Raúl Zibechi (Toward Freedom 11/11/2019) What caused the fall of the … Continue reading

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Ecuador: Finding direction in an insurrection

Raúl Zibechi’s reading of the most recent revolt in ecuador unveils a shift in the radical politics of the americas (and perhaps beyond) – one announced earlier, embryonically, in the movements-insurrections of this century – and which we might wish … Continue reading

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On non-state power: Raúl Zibechi

Collective labor underpins the commons, and is the true material base that produces and reproduces living communities, based on relations of reciprocity and mutual help rather than the hierarchical and individualized relations at the core of state institutions. The community … Continue reading

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