Massive popular mobilizations are the only way to prevent the state and capital from defining the post-pandemic future.
La masiva respuesta de los pueblos es el único modo de impedir que el capital mafioso y los Estados puedan diseñar la coyuntura de la pandemia a su medida.
En la misma Casa Comunal de Totonicapán donde fueron velados los seis indígenas asesinados el 4 de octubre de 2012, se debería celebrar el lunes 4 de noviembre un encuentro entre comuneras y comuneros con la feminista estadunidense Silvia Federici, escritora y activista en el movimiento Occupy Wall Street.
Urban peripheries in Third World countries have become war zones where states attempt to maintain order based on the establishment of a sort of "sanitary cordon" to keep the poor isolated from "normal" society.
It was a transitional year. South American social movements carried out few major actions. For them, the year constituted a slow re-composition of forces, while many affirmed their autonomy from left and progressive governments. In 2007, social movements confronted two new fronts: the consolidation of a second and new wave of neoliberalism (based on commodities) and a correlation of forces, on a regional level, in which “progressive” governments play the dominant role.
A long hunger strike by five Mapuche political prisoners in Chile, sustained by a significant amount of solidarity, seems to be evidence of the deepening of a people’s long struggle for the recovery of lands and control over territory.
“We denounce that Chile is the only country in Latin America where members of an indigenous group fighting for its rights are persecuted and jailed ...”
In the course of his visit to the Southern Cone of South America, the American sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein spoke on one of his favorite subjects: the end of the United States' hegemony—which, he believes, will be definitive within the next decade. But he also let it be known that in the course of the next two or three decades we will be living in a post-capitalist world that could either be much better, or worse, than the present one.