Global anarchists return to Swiss birthplace of Anarchist International
by WW4. Anarchists from all over the world gathered Aug. 8-12 in the town of Saint-Imier in the Jura re
gion of Switzerland to mark the 140th anniversary of a congress which saw the anarchists break with the workers’ movement dominated by Karl Marx. The International Anarchism Gathering called for public protests and strikes to oppose austerity measures imposed in response to the European debt crisis. “Capitalism goes from crisis to crisis, so this is an opportunity for us,” said Aristides Pedraza, one of the event organizers. Continue reading “1000’s of Anarchists in Celebration”