Although all the great revolutionaries of history seem to have emphasized the "making", the acting of revolution, this does not imply that thinking the revolution is a negligible social factor.

For sure, in his famous "Eleven Thesis" with reference to Feuerbach, the "young" Marx underlined: "The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

Also, Che Guevara stated categorically: "The duty of a revolutionary is to make the revolution."

Ever since the victorious electoral Battle of Santa Inés, all over Venezuela the Bolivarians are talking about "deepening the revolution", about making the "revolution in the revolution". Across the country various study groups came into existence, to pursue "ideological" education, to analyze, to penetrate the historic essence of the Bolivarian Revolution. However, very soon, many discover, what the German philosopher, Ernst Bloch has formulated : "... etwas fehlt" (... something is absent), something is missing.

 
A myth equal to the fable of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is gaining strength on both sides of the Atlantic. It is that John Kerry offers a world-view different from that of George W Bush. Watch this big lie grow as Kerry is crowned the Democratic candidate and the "anyone but Bush" movement becomes a liberal cause celebre.

A pesar de que muchos de nosotros no somos expertos en Física Oculta, Ufología (“Ciencia

Les deux plus importantes organisations maoïstes indiennes, qui dirigeaient jusqu'à ce jour chacune leur propre armée de guérilla, viennent d'annoncer officiellement leur unification au sein d'un seul et même parti, qui portera désormais le nom de Parti communiste de l'Inde (maoïste).

un évènement somme toute assez confidentiel...

At the end of September, 115 politicians and foreign
policy experts signed a letter that was delivered to
the heads of NATO and European Union States. The
letter criticized Russian President, Vladimir Putin's
recent moves to end Democratic process in Russia. One
of the recipients of the letter was George Bush, jr.
As a man who has moved to end Democratic process in
his own country, it would have been very hypocritical
of Bush to condemn Putin for his actions. Consequently the only rebuke was Bush stating that he hopes Putin does not abandon Democracy upheld by checks and balances within the Russian government (The First Bush), but even this was ironic.

 
"World Needs More Canada" hollered the lead opinion in last Monday's Globe and Mail. The fallacy of this claim was confirmed to me a minute later when I flipped to the business section where the main headline read, "Canada resists British plan to revalue IMF [International Monetary Fund] Gold Reserves."

According to the Globe article, Canada successfully blocked a plan to help forgive the debt of heavily indebted poor countries by revaluing 103 million ounces of IMF gold reserves. Currently the IMF appraises most of its gold at U.S. $40 an ounce while gold is trading at ten times that price on the world market. This simple reevaluation could increase the IMF's balance sheets by tens of billions of dollars and would undercut the argument that debt forgiveness could harm the institution.

 
Un étonnant éditorial de ce populaire et important journal soutient Kerry... et démolit l'administration Bush.

Franz J. T. Lee, Bill Lyne and Steven Hunt recently engaged in a high scientific standard and educative debate on Tesla Technology and UFOs:

Original Commentary on VHeadline, see:
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=23127

Steven Hunt:
Franz, I have read several of your essays with great interest. By and large I agree with the rudimentary changes being forged by the Venezuelan people with the arrival of Bolivarian politics. However, this conjecture about vacuum energy is far too sketchy, not backed up by empirical data.

I am not saying that this is not true -- what I am saying is that conjecture about this issue makes one look like a "kook', a "conspiracy theorist." Here in the US, some on the left and right believe that sectors of the US government participated and abetted the 9/11 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. What is missing is a 'smoking gun," incontrovertible evidence that a link exists.

Eurocentrisme, autoritarisme, suprématie blanche apologie coloniale, paternalisme et appropriation des luttes : l'autre visage de la gauche française. Quelques textes d'analyse.

 
On September 7, 2004, the owners of Venepal, a paper mill in Morón, Carabobo, in Venezuela, decided to cease their operations and not pay their 400 workers their wages. This is not the first time something like this has happened. A year ago the company took the same decision alleging financial difficulties. At that time the workers decided to occupy the premises in a bitter eleven-week struggle. Now they are demanding that the government nationalizes the company and puts it under workers’ control and management. This is an extremely important struggle which could be crucial for the future of the labor movement and the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela.

Venepal is one of the main producers of paper and cardboard in Venezuela and its installations are located in Morón, in the industrial state of Carabobo. At one point it employed a total of 1,600 workers, controlled 40% of the national market and was one of the main producers of Latin America in this sector. But the company’s management allowed the paper mill to slowly lose market shares and revenues. In April 2002, at the time of the short lived military coup against Chávez, some of its main shareholders were present at the swearing in ceremony for the new, illegitimate, "president" Pedro Carmona. During the bosses’ lockout against the Chávez government in December-January 2002-03 the workers resisted attempts by the employers to paralyze the installations.

 
Open letter to my grandfather, Austin A. O'Malley, who I never really got to know, as he died when I was only four years old. He came over to the United States from his native country, Ireland around 1889, as a little boy of eleven years. Like many other Irishmen from Louisburg, County Mayo, he settled in Clinton, Massachusetts. I know that he worked there for a baker for awhile untill the Spanish American War broke out. I also know that he was in and out of the Veteran’s Hospital all through his life. I also know that he liked to drink at bars in South Boston, sometimes with his dog beside him.

Although many of us are not experts in Occult Physics, Ufology, Tesla Technology or Global Oil Politics, nonetheless, these things directly affect our daily lives ... they even concern the defense of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela and Latin America.

Consequently, for all of us, it is of ultra-importance to have some cognitive notions about decisive world events that generally, for obvious reasons, do not appear in the daily headlines of the international news.

In fact, to formulate revolutionary theory in this epoch of "globalization", the above knowledge is scientifically imperative and philosophically indispensable. Surely, because of its trans-historic magnitude, it is not always possible to explain their essence in simple terms.

Here in this short commentary, very simply we'll just deal with a few general, outstanding topics, mainly with their social, ideological, philosophical and emancipatory aspects. The pertaining questions themselves are very simple: for example, does an Occult Ether Physics really exist?

From France

Les taux de profits bas ont favorisé et accéléré entre les années 60 et 80, l’intervention de l’Etat dans l’économie. L’objectif était de soutenir les secteurs productifs nationaux qui majoritairement subissaient les dégradations, le moyen pour réussir était le déficit public, l’émission de titres d’Etat à taux fixes jusqu’à rendre insoutenable cette manœuvre.

Tout le monde parle de victoire, je ne vois pas où

 
Canadian, America, French, United Nations sanctioned genocide looms....

Cet exposé est lui-même une des premières manifestations de la grève humaine. Un programme plus précis suivra, ouvert à tout l’engouement et toute la curiosité du monde.
Mais pour que l’assemblée ici présente, comme toutes les assemblées du monde, prenne consistance, il faut d’abord que l’orateur disparaisse, et rejoigne ceux qu’il a interpellés.

Malgré un climat très agressif qui tenta d'empêcher la tenue de la 19è Rencontre de Femmes à Mendoza, il s'est réalisé une manifestation de 20 000 femmes réclamant comme partie de la faculté de décider sur son propre corps, le droit à l'avortement si nécessaire.

* The August 2004 elections legitimized Hugo Chávez's presidency, approved by the multinational powers-that-be, despite the opposition's claims of electoral fraud. We, at El Libertario (issue 39, September/October 2004), presented an indepth analysis of the consecuences of the referendum, as well as proposals for action in the new circumstances. We shall now quote a couple of notes from that issue that express the essence of the venezuelan anarchists' perspective.

Suite à l'impunité du massacre de septembre et octobre 2003 qui s'était soldé par 67 morts et plus de 300 blessés, et pour la défense du gaz, les boliviens se mobilisent.

Modeled after Earth Day, International Media Democracy Day is an international day of education, celebration and protest designed to increase public awareness around media issues, promote grassroots media alternatives and put media reform on the political agenda at the local, national and international levels. International Media Democracy Day was started in Vancouver, Canada four years ago.

Il y a quelque temps, dans un essai antérieur, je critiquai l’évaluation éthique du patriotisme. Un lecteur français qui lut une traduction de cet article faite par l’écrivain Pierre Trottier – La maladie morale du patriotisme - écrivit un long plaidoyer en faveur des frontières nationales...

A Buenos Aires, le 12 octobre 2004, à 512 ans de la découverte de l'Amérique, plusieurs organisations indigènes ont manifesté contre la discrimination des peuples originaires et ont revendiqué pour leurs droits, parmi lesquels la possession de leurs territoires.

Ralph Nader, qui présente un programme radicalement opposé à celui du parti unique bicéphale des "Républicrates", subit un black-out des media et la persécution des "démocrates" qui veulent le retreait de sa candidature