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LIVE webinair this March 9: – Green feminist tsunami in Latin America?-

This year’s Women Workers Day promises to be a week of demos and celebrations, despite Covid restrictions. The movement is especially strong in Latin America, where women’s social revolution was already sweeping through the cities, infested with misogynist rape culture and femicides, and encouraged by the historic abortion rights victory in Argentina. In Spain all demos are banned in the Madrid area, with the usual Covid excuse and despite letting an openly macho fascist demo go ahead a fortnight ago.

Photo credits (L to R): Romina Navarro on Global Voices; Lara Va vía Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0); Juan Diez vía Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The legalization of abortion in Argentina in December 2020 triggered a wave of debates on reproductive rights across Latin America. Several countries in the region impose a total ban on abortion; and in others where the practice has been fully or partially legalized, it faces strong backlash from pro-life groups.

Join us on March 9 for the latest in our Global Voices Insights live webinar series, where a panel will explore the impact of the Argentina decision on the rest of Latin America, and attempt to answer the question: Will Argentina’s “green tide” spread throughout the region, changing laws and attitudes around abortion?

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For International Women’s Day March 8: Words of Clara Zetkin

Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement by Elsa Rassbach

For the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, here’s a clip from my 1972 film, “His/story” (which I made as a student in Germany) about the legendary German socialist and feminist, Clara Zetkin, and her visit to the Soviet Union in 1920.

The preceding years had seen unprecedented struggle by women throughout the world, including in the US. In 1910, at an international socialist women’s congress in Copenhagen, Clara Zetkin proposed an annual women’s day to demand legal and political equality and the right to vote.

The first International Women’s Day was on March 19, 1911. Millions of women marched in Germany, Denmark, Austria, and Switzerland. This resounding success that was followed, only a week later, by the tragic ‘Triangle Fire’ in New York City took the lives of more than 140 young Italian and Jewish immigrant garment workers. Clara Zetkin (orig. Clara Eissner, 1857 – 1933) already looked back on a lifetime of struggle on behalf of working women.

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Leftism Against Anarchy “Who exactly do we need to protect ourselves against?”

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The Bolshevik “betrayal” of anarchists during the Russian Revolution is a commonly known, and almost overly debated instance where anarchism has come into open and bloody conflict with leftism.

Victims killed by the Red Army during the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising. Kronstadt, March 1921.

There is no end to the accusations of murder at Kronstadt, or in Ukraine, and no end to the leftist rationalization and dismissal of the same events as necessary or even desirable.

A scathing look at the Russian Revolution in the aftermath ...

The Russian Revolution serves as a flashpoint for tension between those who consider themselves leftists and anarchists, and one’s opinion on the revolution’s events can often serve as indicative of their politics as a whole.

But why is this the case? Why is a relatively singular historical event, or even the actions of one man (Stalin), what things get boiled down to? While a particularly terrible set of events, the “betrayal” of anarchists by communists during the Russian Revolution is just another instance of leftist forces crushing anarchistic movements.

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Arcadi Oliveres, pre-death interview: -Capitalism must disappear! I do not accept qualifications-

by Kaos En La Red .
By Montserrat Serra / Albert Salamé / Carles Garcia Published on Mar 1, 2021.

We interview the social activist, pacifist and economist, who has been a reference for more than a generation, and who has made public that he has cancer and has only a few weeks to live.

Arcadi Oliveres 26.02.2021 Foto: Albert Salamé / VWFoto

Arcadi Oliveres (Barcelona, 1945) welcomed us to his house, which was the summer home of his grandfather fifty years ago, in Sant Cugat, Barcelona, where he has lived for sixteen years. He moved when real estate pressure drove him out of Barcelona. In the patio, on a bad day, which he has been clarifying while we were doing the interview.

When we greeted him at the entrance, he told us that he was not feeling very well, that he was in pain. But during the interview he was recovering and at all times he has been lucid, thoughtful, and passionate as well.

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