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Tierra del fuego

Tomás — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:49:01 +0000

Il y a le baroquisme admirable des bières autour de Bariloche, qui ont leur goût distinct dans chaque brasserie artisanale et ne supportent pas d’être transportées au loin.

A 2,500-year gap

Tomás — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:32:28 +0000

Eigth days after the death of Alexei Grigoropoulos, 15-year-old brat murdered for practicing Greece’s national sport, pelting police cars, the international mainstream press, democratic and truth-loving as usual, keeps saying the hundreds of burned buildings, plundered bank branches, burned cars, ransacked police stations, pillaged ministries, HUNDREDS of Greek cities barricated and tens of thousands of Greek angry brats in the streets, occupied factories and universities, an almost-spontaneous general strike (unions had scheduled it fr this week before the riots started, tried to call it off but couldn’t do it and then had to pretend they were heading it) and solidarity demonstrations, sometimes with mirrored riots, in Köbenhaven, Roma, Madrid, Paris, Bruxelles, San Francisco, Moskwa and Barcelona (so far) are a "protest" against the murder.

The smarter ones try to assign the uprising to the "crisis" that shatters the last illusions of those who still believed in "trade freedom" and its ability to bring happiness and the end of bad breath to all of humankind. Some, even, militants in the thousands of groups on the left of the status quo, assign the miracle of the multiplication of firebombs to a delusional and hallucinatory "movement against capitalist globalization."

As we predicted here 18 months ago, Greek (and Danish, Polish, Russian, Belgian. French and Whateverese) brats will keep burning cars and attacking the police. In case the Greek government is toppled in the same way De la Rúa fell in 2001 (fleeing from the government palace in a helicopter) , the result will be the same: proliferation of local asemblies that are *as of now* popping up all over the place in the craddle of democracy. If this example bears fruit elsewhere (a distinct possibility), not even Pericles’ spirit will be able to predict the consequences.

Twenty-five centuries later, Greece is again at the avant-garde of democracy. This new Peloponnesus War may be history’s poetic justice beginning to budge again, resuming the same old war from where democracy was defeated.

"[…] the world has long since dreamed of something of which it needs only to become conscious for it to possess it in reality. It will then become plain that our task is not to draw a sharp mental line between past and future, but to complete the thought of the past. Lastly, it will becomes plain that mankind will not being any new work, but will consciously bring about the completion of its old work".

Greece, Winter of 2008

Tomás — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:57:08 +0000

"Let fury flow and drown them!"

The best way to keep warm in winter

Now I see it

Tomás — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:10:49 +0000

They will sell their cheap thrills as beautiful emotions. For them, the end of everything will not come as the bang it was for Janis, but like the whimper it was for Elvis.

The good ole times are back!

Tomás — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:11:13 +0000

Four years of silence and death later, the joy of living is back on the streets.

Les mauvais jours finiront

Tomás — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:55:51 +0000

En même temps que le monde du spectacle étend son règne, il s’approche du point culminant de son offensive, en soulevant partout de nouvelles résistances. Celles-ci sont infiniment moins connues, puisque précisément le but du spectacle régnant est le reflet universel et hypnotique de la soumission. Mais elles existent et grandissent.

[Internationale situationniste. Numéro 7 — Avril 1962]

Anyone with a minimum interest in the streets will notice an increasing trend among European youth to confront the police at the slightest excuse. Stockholm, Athens (three days ago!), Paris, Madrid, Brussels, Budapest, to mention just those I remember from the last couple of months are showing that the days of peace and quiet in Europe are nearing the end despite the barrage of propaganda trying to link any demonstrations of unrest to some kind of Muslim conspiracy to take over the world — and despite the vast and undiscriminate powers given to the police these last years.

It’s this Nikolas "Big Mouth" Sarkozy is referring to when he says he wants to put an end to the "May 68" spirit. He should be careful about what he wishes (and also about what he says in public, but this may be wishing too much). Whether he will be elected remains to be seen (and the streets don’t care), but whoever is elected will certainly have to face a much more diffuse, violent and impregnable May 68, perhaps with just the anger, without the spirit.

São Paulo

Tomás — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:49:18 +0000

One of the best things about living in São Paulo is that you are less than 300 dollars away from a weekend in a five-star hotel in Buenos Aires.

This will be a lazy blog

Tomás — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:45:48 +0000

Just in case you were thinking of coming here every day.

An old text

Tomás — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:10:45 +0000

NO SOMOS NADA, QUEREMOS SERLO TODO 2 de septiembre de 2006 - 08h47 - Por 201.**.123.***

Tras dos meses de victorias espléndidas, durante los cuales fueron capaces de mantener alejados de la capital a los representantes del poder corrupto y enfrentar a los porros del capital sin ceder a la violencia, los pueblos de Oaxaca deben llevar su movimiento hasta sus consecuencias lógicas, y transformar a la APPO en una verdadera asamblea popular, sin jefetes y sin delegación de poderes y representación, que son el camino más seguro para la derrota. La asamblea popular debe ser responsable por sus propias acciones. Frente a la vacancia creada por la huída del gobernador Ruiz y sus esbirros, la asamblea debe anudar esfuerzos para ampliar y reforzar su propia democracia, transformarse en un órgano soberano de poder y extender su control a cada vez más aspectos de la vida social que se propone transformar. Debe estar atenta para no reproducir los mecanismos jerárquicos que son el principio de la corrupción, debe denunciar a los que intentan apropiarse de su nombre y de sus victorias para ser aceptados como interlocutores válidos del poder corrupto. No debe permitir que nadie hable en su nombre sin un mandato específico y limitado, para evitar que los oportunistas la utilicen para hacer avanzar sus carreras políticas. La asamblea de los pueblos de Oaxaca debe ser la voz de los pueblos de Oaxaca. Sólo así podrá alcanzar sus objetivos y hacer historia con conciencia, por sus propios medios. Viva la lucha de los pueblos de Oaxaca por democracia y justicia! Viva la asamblea popular soberana! No delegación, no representación!

La semana toca a su fin

Tomás — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:45:58 +0000

Tomás is puzzled. He is again conscious of a new idea, and is not sure whither it would lead him.