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Lucio, The Good Bandit: Reflections of an Anarchist

Marie Trigona June 5, 2008 Marie Trigona

Lucio Urtubia

Lucio Urtubia could be described as a modern day Robin Hood, a man who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Lucio, a 76-year old Spanish anarchist and retired bricklayer carried out bank robberies, forgeries and endless actions against capitalism. His actions helped to fund liberation movements in Europe, the US and Latin America.

Behind Latin America’s Food Crisis

Laura Carlsen June 4, 2008 Laura Carlsen

Even a year ago, few people would have predicted that a global food crisis would make headlines as one of the major concerns for the future of the world. Yes, critics of agrofuels warned that food shortages and price hikes would result from the headlong rush to divert land from food to fuel production. And climate change experts predicted that global warming would hit small farmers-who even in today's world of industrialized agribusiness still produce much of what we eat-the hardest. Agricultural economists alerted the world to the dangers of leaving the food supply to a highly concentrated international market.

Book Review: Surrealism, Rebellion and the 1960s

Paul Buhle June 4, 2008 Paul Buhle

Andre Breton

"The Seven Cities of Cibola," a Donald Duck comic from the 1950s, offers a clue to the unique character of the Surrealist contribution to the 1960s social movements and the mixture of popular culture with the famed counter-cultural avant-garde of the period.

Rabindranath Tagore: Balancing the Local and the Universal

Rene Wadlow June 3, 2008 Rene Wadlow

Rabindranath Tagore

In a period of rapid change as we face today, it is often difficult to find the right balance between the cultural contributions and needs of the local, the national, and the universal. One way of finding this balance is to look at the life and work of others, who earlier confronted the same challenges. One such person was the poet, writer and cultural reformer Rabindranath Tagore.

Radical Clarity to the Concept of Real “Change”

Karl Kardy June 2, 2008 Karl Kardy

The American presidential election season has pundits and pollsters proclaiming "change" a primary factor in the minds of many voters. It's little wonder that this stark period - marked by the so-called "War on Terror," the extension of neoliberalism across the globe, and the urgency of global warming - has motivated such vague desires among the citizenry. Undefined, undifferentiated and ultimately relegated to mere platitudes, "change" here means little; it is cosmetic, commodified, and reinforces the status quo.

Profit Over Food: The Root Causes of the Global Food Crisis

Al Huebner May 29, 2008 Al Huebner

Food Aid Arrives in Haiti

The story of rising food prices around the world, and the hunger and unrest it is producing, has been widely reported in the mainstream media. Yet rarely is there any serious analysis to find the cause of the crisis. At best it's assumed, based on past experience, that the cause is temporary, the crisis can be eased by increasing food aid and by taking steps to restore production. However, the causes of the present crisis are not temporary.