One of the disadvantages of current representative democracies is the discrepancy between the agenda of the regular citizen and the agenda of leaders and political elites. As the practices of direct democracy lose ground to the dominant-elitist decision making system, people's interest in the fairness of state policies decreases, and criticisms of governing actions are usually isolated and more symbolic than mobilizing.

A group of six anarchists were arrested in Belgrade at the 3rd of september under suspicion being connected with Black Elijah (Crni Ilija), which took responsibility for the 24th August molotov attack on the Greek embassy in Belgrade.

Is it Made in China?

The great similarities between the fascist policies of the Israeli government in the Gaza Strip and the past atrocities of the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto

After the result of the parliamentary elections was made public, huge protests started on the streets of Chisinau on April 7th.

Now Moldavian and Romanian citizens in The Republic of Moldova [Bessarabia] are asking themselves if their rights have been nullified overnight. Who should protect them? Romanian and the EU just shrug their shoulders, while the Moldavian repression forces are intimidating, beating, seizing, deporting all those who are not going along with them.

Call for actions against the munic security confernce, an annual NATO-event in germany

* In the difficult times being experienced by the Venezuelan labour movement, perhaps the most dramatic issue have been the criminal acts that kills tens of trade unionists to the passivity of the pseudo-revolutionary government and the silence of his admirers from outside the country. It speaks about it this text of El Libertario # 55, January-February 2009.

* Article originally published in spanish language in El Libertario, Venezuela, # 54, September-October 2008, that analyzes and goes over the problem of criminal violence through its social impact on contemporary Venezuela.

"stop watching TV, go out in the street"

Starting from a strictly political perspective: These days, the days of Alexandros, mark the fiercest social explosion this country has experienced since 1990-91...

Imi pare rau, e engleza...dar....the world should not be celebrating
Obama. Mentor lui a fost Zbigniew Brzezinski, cine vrea sa inceput un razboi in Asia impotriva Russia si China. Ce face in Pakistan, vecin de China? Cum ne spunem, Nuclear World War III?

* This Editorial from El Libertario (#54, September-October 2008, Venezuela) examines – from the current Venezuelan perspective – how authoritarian power builds its own security upon the destruction of collective security.

The NATO summit in Bucharest took place between April 2-4. Activists from Romania and abroad organized “Anti-NATO Days” between March 28 and April 5, as a form of protest. What follows is a daily chronology of events, starting with the repression and abuse by border guards, police and the mass-media, to the actions of solidarity by human rights organizations and foreign activists.

The Common Voice from the anarchists and anti-militarists who gathered in Bucharest in April 2008 to protest against the NATO summit.

An adress of solidarity to those struggling on the streets of Bucarest and at the borders of Romania, from the protesters against the NATO-security Conference in Munich

After the sites contra-doxa.com and summitnato.ro, which have published anti-summit materials, were attacked for the first time in the middle of the day on April 2nd and were subsequently brought back online, during the evening of the same day they crashed for the second time as a consequence of a new online attack.

Law breaking as a European standard; Romania shows its democratic side with more repression.

CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL MOBILIZATION AGAINST US MILITARY BASES IN CENTRAL EUROPE.

NO TO ANTI-MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM!

War is the disease of which PTSD and other mental illnesses that plague our soldiers and veterans are merely symptoms.

De Vicenza à l’Europe
14, 15, 16 décembre:
3 jours de mobilitation européenne à Vicenza

Samir Qontar, Israel's longest held Lebanese prisoner who has been incarcerated in Israeli jail for the past 30 years. In fact the Hezbollah operation last year in which 2 Israeli soldiers were kidnapped, which sparked the 34 day long war, was meant to use the 2 soldiers as bargaining chips in order to force Israel to release Samir Qontar.

After 86 days on the road since leaving Dublin on May 13th the Footprints for Peace group on their "Towards a Nuclear Free Future" peace walk will stop at Downing Street.

* U.S., Russia at Odds over Increasingly Unpopular White House Plans for Missile System in Eastern Europe *

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Trafficking Arms On Europe’s Doorstep looks at a “country” which has one of Europe’s biggest military stockpiles but has escaped any meaningful international regulation since its creation in 1990. According to this French documentary Transnistria continues to arm rebels in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caucasas and Iraq.

Once again the UN drops the ball.

RESULTS OF THE VOTE ON THE RESOLUTION AGAINST THE BLOCKADE