#roarmag

We need history as a guide, but it can’t be a guide to hierarchical organization because our history and our experience has already shown that’s a dead end to more oppression.

So, if history is going to be relevant to social movements, it must be understood as a guide to non-hierarchical, democratic organization.

Luckily, if we look at the long arc of human social history, that’s exactly how our most fulfilling and liberating institutions have been organized.

Dario believes not everybody who says they are anarchist is an anarchist. I agree. (Read the article here. And similar over at libcom.) I see some of you posting Uzcátegui’s writing as if it means something that we should believe at face value, when it clearly doesn’t given El Libertario’s history. We should be quoting and linking much more responsibly.

This is again some nuts right wing propaganda…

Not everyone who pretends to be an Anarchist is an Anarchist…

All leftist forces are taking a clear stand against the right wing and fascist violence from the network of feminist organizations: http://encuentrofeminista.weebly.com/ to radical queer, lesbian, gay transgender groups: http://asgdre.blogspot….nte-nuevas.html To peasant organizations: http://fncezoficial….&max-results=15 Even the anti-government leftists from PRV-Ruptura-tercer camino take a clear stand against the fascist violence as you can see on their web site: https://www.facebook.com/prv.rupturatercercamino

Most people killed up to now were government supporters or not involved —like the guy on a motorcycle who got his head cut off yesterday night while driving o a road where opposition members had placed a wire on 4-5 feet height http://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/223787/barbarie-en-la-av-romulo-gallegos-un-joven-murio-degollado-por-una-guaya-atravesada-en-plena-via/ As one of the central organizers and advisors of the protests said to do: http://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/223829/militar-opositor-retirado-recomendo-el-uso-de-alambres-para-trancar-las-calles/

The government has assumed responsibility for the death of Juan Montoya (leftist grass roots leader from the popular neighborhood “23 de Enero” in Caracas and Bassil Dacosta, opposition student. They were shot by members of the special secret police SEBIN. The members of the forces have been arrested as well as the responsible commander and the head of the SEBIN has been replaced. It is still under investigation why they were on the streets since the SEBIN had the presiential order not to leave their barracks, but it did not follow the order. The death of Genesis Carmona, mentioned here, seems to have been caused by a shot fired by her own co-protesters, she got a bullet in her had from the back, while she was facing the police. That was confirmed not only by balistic exams, but also by videos.

El Libertario has always allied with far right wing students during the last decade. Here when they participated together with right wing students in 2007 trying to burn the school for social work in the Central University and throwing rocks, bottles and even shooting to prevent 123 chavista students and workers having an assembly to get out: http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/2814 here the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw4FRfd9Wyo Here the propaganda article by El Libertario: http://cnainforma.blogspot.com/2007/11/dos-amigos-de-la-cna-de-venezuela.html In the article El Libertario “forgot” to mention that injured right wing students were injured by stones from their own people and that the only one injured by gunfire was a chavista shot by a right wing student… By the way: The student’s demonstrations in 2007, in which El Libertario participated, were against the decision of the government to force public universities to stop admission exames and give all people access to universites.

Police forced to retreat from Istanbul’s Taksim square as protests against the authoritarian neoliberalism of Erdogan’s proto-Islamist government grow.