The internationalists

The ‘Occupy’ movement has now been going on for several months. Starting in the USA in September 2011 with Occupy Wall Street, Occupy actions have taken place in 100 US cities and, according to the Occupy Wall Street website, 1500 cities worldwide. In the UK Occupy events have taken place in several cities such as Edinburgh, Bristol and most significantly the St Pauls occupation in London.

Introduction · (We reproduce below a translation of a text produced by our German comrades in the Gruppe Internationalister Sozialisten (GIS) on the events in Romania up until the date it was written, 28 January 2012. Since then, the Emil Boc government has “fallen”, against a background of continued protests (despite the intense cold) and, in rapid succession, Boc was followed by acting Prime...

Syrian Massacres · Last year as the death toll in Syria began to surpass that of all the “Arab Spring” deaths put together we wrote an article for our website (1) which analysed the origins of that crisis and the social roots of the Assad regime. We recorded that the kind of massacre by the state that was going on them was nothing new.

Yesterday, the Administration of the Trade Union of Elliniki Halivourgia (Aspropyrgos) issued a disgusting statement about the visit of the Nazis of Golden Dawn to the factory (who had entered with their approval and their welcome of course). · In that text they · "denounce the attempt of the Golden Dawn and several other groups to provoke, to slander and discredit our heroic struggle.

(This article was written by a nucleus of anarchists about their experiences with the Occupy Wall-Street movement. The context is Atlanta, Georgia, one of the largest and most economically important cities in the southern U.S. Even though the article delves into issues that are specific to Atlanta, the descriptions of the political orientation and organizational structure of Atlanta's “Occupy”...