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Buenos Aires, Jan 27 (EFE).- Argentina is conducting “intense” talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on rescheduling its $44 billion debt to the international lender on the eve of the deadline to make a $700 million payment, the government said Thursday. On the streets of Buenos Aires, meanwhile, members of social movements and leftist …

An essay on the rise and fall of organized anarchism in Japan in the early 20th century, with special emphasis on its anarcho-syndicalist dimension, with interesting details concerning the disputes, splits and controversies that plagued the Japanese movement and which were surprisingly similar in their basic contours to those that affected the anarchist movement in the West during the same period.

A translation of Lopez Arango, theorist of the FORA, on the question of industrial organization and industrial unionism. Here he defends the FORA's position of rejecting unions as vehicles for post-capitalist society, the allegedly progressive nature of capitalist industry, and the organization of workers organization based on industry. This short piece can't make up for the broad and important debate that happened within global anarchosyndicalist circles in the 20-30s, howeve...

The center-left parties that dominated the transition to civilian rule from Chile’s military dictatorship three decades ago have all but collapsed.

Argentines protest against a possible deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to pay more than $40 billion debt. 

Labour activist Alejandro Bodart marched down the Buenos Aires streets two decades ago to protest against the International Monetary Fund, which many then

Labor activist Alejandro Bodart marched down the Buenos Aires streets two decades ago to protest against the International Monetary Fund, which many then blamed for austerity measures that sharpened Argentina's worst ever economic crisis.

By Rodrigo Campos and Agustin Geist NEW YORK/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Labor activist Alejandro Bodart marched down the Buenos Aires streets two decade...

Katherine Stone analyses how workers' control in the US steel industry in the 19th century was broken up by the employers using Taylorist management techniques, leading to the job structure which remains in place today.

A short biography of south London based anti-racist community organiser Olive Morris who worked tirelessly as a feminist, black and squatting activist throughout the late 60s and 70s.