Argentinië 
Fabrieksbezetting in Chicago
Toen een paar jaar geleden de economie van Argentinië ineenstortte namen in verschillende plaatsen arbeiders hun werkplaatsen over om concessies af te dwingen. Tot nu toe komen de economische problemen in de Verenigde Staten niet in de buurt van die van Argentinië toen, maar het fenomeen van de bezette fabriek is toch overgewaaid.Werknemers van de Republic Windows & Doors-fabriek bezetten hun fabriek en eisten de 1,5 miljoen dollar aan [...]
Argentina: left faces elections
In the context of an ongoing process of crisis and mobilization that has continued in Argentina since the revolutionary days of December 2001, the anti-capitalist left is faced with considerable challenges. It must also surmount its own limitations.The violent police repression of a \'corte de ruta\' (road block) on June 26 outside Buenos Aires, with the firing of live ammunition and the killing in cold blood of two young unemployed piqueteros, [...]
Birth of our power
Some images recall the Paris Commune of 1871. Not because they are comparable events, of course, but because they bring to mind Marx\'s phrase, \'the political form at last discovered\'.(1) Pre-revolutionary crisis, dual power, revolutionary days, insurrectionary situation.Crisis of bourgeois hegemony and complete loss of the legitimacy of its state mechanisms of domination. Categories abound, multiply and repeat. Although it is difficult to [...]
The Commune Lives
Every day Argentina slides further into crisis. Industrial production fell by 20% in December. Tens of thousands of people are falling into poverty every day; official bodies believe that more than 15 million can now be classified as poor, five million of them in extreme poverty. Layoffs multiply across the industrial sector.Economic paralysis is spreading little by little across a country that seems to be disintegrating. On February 4-5, 2002 [...]
Enron in Argentina
DO a quick search of the Web on the terms Enron and Argentina and you mostly get either references comparing the two, or a recent satire in which Kenneth Lay claims immunity by claiming Enron IS Argentina.You might even stumble on the Mother Jones article detailing Dubya\'s lobbying of the Argentine government on behalf of Enron when he was governor of Texas. It turns out (not surprisingly given the extent of Enron\'s global interests) that [...]
Maxima gefeliciteerd!
We hebben verloren. Een bittere conclusie, maar daarom niet minder waar. Terwijl een half jaar geleden de monarchie nog serieus in gevaar leek te zijn is de populariteit van het instituut koningshuis weer groeiende. En dat heeft links niet in de laatste plaats aan zichzelf te danken. Wat aanvankelijk nog een principiële, zij het binnen brave grachtengordel-republikeinse marges gevoerde discussie leek te zijn – een hobby van wat prominente [...]
De Argentijnse opstand
De Argentijnse opstand die in december losbarstte en tot nu toe leidde tot het vertrek van drie presidenten heeft zich sindsdien versterkt en verdiept. De geest is uit de fles. Terwijl ministers, bankdirecteuren en parlementariërs er alles aan doen om zich zo veel mogelijk verborgen te houden voor de algemene volkswoede, wordt er overal in het land door buurtbewoners, arbeiders, werklozen, vrouwen, jongeren en gepensioneerden betoogd en bezet. [...]
A Popular Rebellion in Argentina
Thirty dead, more than 439 injured, 3273 arrested, has been the price of a popular rebellion by the traditionally unrecognised, ordinary people of Argentina. For the first time in our history, a democratically elected government was toppled, not by a military coup d\'etat but by the direct action of the working and popular masses. This action was not a thunderbolt that fell from a peaceful sky. A multiplicity of struggles, popular actions [...]
The angry vote
October\'s mid-term elections in Argentina marked a significant turn in one of the deepest crises the country has ever faced. After more than three years of recession, savage cuts in wages and public services, a growing wave of increasingly militant social struggles, and with the prospect of total financial meltdown lurking just around the corner, everyone expected the ruling Alliance parties to take a beating at the polls. What wasn\'t [...]
Argentina’s Economic Crisis: Interpretations and Proposals
Why is the economic crisis in Argentina so serious? How can the present and continuing depression be explained? The recession in the economy has persisted for three years, twice the traditional length of cyclical contractions. The fall in investment affects all sectors and the gross domestic product has fallen by 4.3 per cent from the beginning of 1998. The effective interest rate is five times greater than the international average, and thwarts [...]
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