Category Archives: Former issues

Hieronymus Bosch and the art of the death agony of feudalism

The art of the painter from the Netherlands, despite its anarchist and irrational features, is a true picture of the age of transition, the death agony of feudalism and the birth of capitalism. Immense changes characterised that time: the feudal order was falling apart and the bourgeoisie of the towns attacked the old order and demanded rights. His art is of a world torn by conflicting powers, from which reason was ousted, where animal spirits ruled, the world of force and terror, when reality became a nightmare. That is, a world quite similar to ours.

Original article: In Defence of Marxism (Thursday, 23 December 2010) Alan Woods: Hieronymus Bosch and the art of the death agony of feudalism. See at  http://www.marxist.com/bosch-art-of-death-agony-of-feudalism.htm

Manifesto of the Network of Alternative Resistance (1999)

Groups in Western Europe and Latin America published a political program in Buenos Aires, September 1999 to create a worldwide counter power of non-government actors. This alternative called libertarian communism is based on changing lifestyle. It is a solidarity op-position – to the bourgeois system – which is the rejection and overcoming of the standardisation of individuals, their consolidation, separation and isolation.

The 1910 Mexican revolution from the perspec-tive of the historical long term

At the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, it is disputed again. The revi-sion of this story (as well) is done with vehemence. Such a logical framework is applied, which does not want only to reconquer the past. Its actual goal is the selective actualisation of personalities, actions, developments and situations, casting them in a different light, to legitimize and stabilise the actual developments, social groups and personalities of the very present. Restore historical facts to find our ways in the present.