South America

from email, 14 October 2008: The family of Jean Charles de Menezes were sickened to discover further cover up by police officers surrounding his death during today's evidence given at the inquest into Jean Charles' death. An officer, known only as 'Owen' due to being successfully granted anonymity for the inquest, admitted to deleting a section of notes which would have been potentially vital evidence to any investigative proceedings. more

from email, 13 September 2008: 10 years ago on September 11th, Claudia Lopez a woman, student and anarchist dancer was killed by the police during a protest commemorating the coup of 1973. Under the slogan of Black September the youth combatants fight in her name, and in the name of all those killed under democracy, against the bastards who killed them, making sure that the world remembers that we are living in a war. - On September 2nd 2008 combative youth took the streets to stop traffic on Jorge Alessandri Avenue out side of the UMCE University. They fought police for hours with rocks and molotov cocktails more

from email, 23 April 2008: The profile of anarchism in Venezuelan history has been less pronounced than in other parts of Latin America, where it has vigorously manifested itself through collective struggles, publications, personalities and ideological debate. It is, however, worth pointing out that it has also influenced our social and cultural evolution. more

from email, 3 March 2008: We are writing to introduce the Solidarity Without Borders Campaign, a coordinated, sustained, three-pronged campaign in solidarity with immigrant and indigenous struggles across North and Latin America. Anti-authoritarian groups from across the Northeast and Midwest USA have come together to form the Solidarity Without Borders Group. more

from infoshop, 21 February 2008: On the night of February 18 2008, paint-bombs were thrown at a branch of the Itaú bank located at Corrientes and Mario Bravo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, as an extension of the struggle of anarchist prisoners who are beginning a hunger strike in various countries.

On February 10, anarchist prisoner Marco Camenisch released a public statement saying that he and some other anarchist prisoners have called for a hunger strike to take place between 18th and 29th February 2008 as part of the permanent struggle against all prisons and repression, isolation, torture, and life sentences. more

El Libertario, Venezuela, 25 October 2007: "With a lot of rhetoric and propaganda the Chavez administration has advanced different examples of co-management which, they claim, demonstrate their desire to transform Venezuela’s relations of production. A compañero from Europe visited us recently and got to know two of the most celebrated cases: Alcasa and Invepal. Here is the report he prepared for El Libertario # 51 about the actual working conditions in the country’s most “important” co-managed businesses..." more

Which will take place the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th days of October, 2007 in the community of Vícam, Yaqui Territory, Municipality of Guaymas, State of Sonora, Mexico, to address the following: 1) The war of capitalist conquest in the indigenous communities in the Americas. 2) The resistance of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and our defense of mother earth, our territories, and our cultures. 3) Why do we, the indigenous peoples of the Americas, struggle? more

from IAF-IFA, 04.08.2007: The newspaper Tierra y Libertad, mouthpiece of the Iberian Anarchist Federation, published in edition 227 of June 2007 this manifesto of the International of Anarchist Federations (IAF-IFA) in support of those who in Venezuela today confront the bureaucratic capitalist project of the Chavez government as well as their social democrat and right wing opponents. more

from email, 14 July 2007: On the Friday 20th July (Columbia's 'National Day') at 1pm the Solidarity Federation will be holding a protest outside the Columbian embassy (3 Hans Crescent SW1. Tube: Knightsbridge. Between Sloane Street and Brompton Road. It's about a mile from Parliament.) as part of a international day of action to highlight the ongoing war waged by the Columbian state on trade unionists. more

From the publishers of El Libertario goes our reply to the habitual expressions that the coarse right or the easy-going left used to attribute us; the same left that, inside and outside of Venezuela allows that the mirage of the Chávez pseudo-revolution impressed them. We could and would like to say very much more about this subject, however currently here there is the essential and concise information about our point of view that, even when it was expressed several times it does not implies that it does not have to be repeated. more

As the temperature rises, we at the Rampart have been working tirelessly to bring you fabo events for you to come and get involved with, meet others like you, and to share ideas...here are this week's events, please take a look-see.... more

From Buenos Aires, in the state of argentina: In the evening (February 4), a group of companions painted the entire front of the Spanish consulate in Buenos Aires with words of solidarity with the prisoners of February 4, calling for their immediate freedom. more

From the Commision of Anarchist Relations (Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas): "We maintain that the two options publicized by the established order - Chavez as much as Rosales - represent the domination of financial power and empire over Venezuela, and present a scene of super-exploitation, unemployment, and social exclusion in addition to the fortification of big capital..." more

TEXT: Every year we're force-fed the same bullshit, blackmailed, bullied into believing we must buy in order to feel happy. We are, en masse, defined by our ability to purchase. And each year we're left feeling empty, used, less human, more worthless. We are never made happy by the things we're told make us real... more

This report is taken from the feedback from the People's Global Action European Conference. The idea of this meeting, as a spin off of the strategy debates, was to bring together different groups and networks that are interested in and have been experimenting with various forms of social disobedience.  more