Observatorio critico cuba: two days of Spring III Libertarian in Havana. By: Marcelo "Liberato" Salinas

Complying with the designs of flowering ácrata spring in Havana, will taken against the grain of outside adversities and own idleness, attended the third and fourth day of our Third Conference Primaveras Libertarian, but not before making a break of 48 hours between 
to leave spaces personan person encounters that generate formal activities and take a break involved in managing the meeting. ---- Wednesday afternoon May 11 was the time for three moments of the day "international anarchist spaces and experiences , " presentation 
"Problems and prospects of anti-capitalist anti-imperialist movements and USA ." And "Looks (in question) to globalization. " ---- The first thematic area included a large, lively and interesting group presentations compas who brought their experiences and views 
on their realities, in the heat of the practices that have developed. Here the comrades of Santiago de los Caballeros in the neighboring Dominican Republic, for the second time in the day, presented its new headquarters, a place with very good conditions to support 
activities from a library, where they have developed over several years a successful initiative as the Coffee Philosophy, are now developing an intensive gardening experience, as well as a living space open for other partners.

These initiatives have not been reason for antisocial cloistered, but have simultaneously promoted organized fairs public exchange in Santiago, have been connected with the actions 
against the growing mega-mining country in a social context where the countercultural scene is scarce and where the partisanship of social conflict is the norm. The time was also ripe for reporting the work that we as part of the federal commitment Anarchist 
Federation anarchist Caribbean Caribbean and Central America, with the hard intension to articulate a federation of anarchist tendencies in our region.

A company of the Anarchist Federation Gaucha introduced the topic of that South American organizational body, its history and relations of origin with the anarchist movement of Uruguay and its notion of a especifista anarchism social inclusion, which has achieved considerable spread in the region, connecting unemployed workers movements, neighborhood organizations, popular cultural initiatives, without neglecting the proper organization of anarchists, confirming the especifista anarchism as a contemporary organizational 
proposals to be part of the social struggles that can be foreseen in Brazil with a growing political polarization, class and rampant degradation PT

The historic district of Lavapies in Madrid, one of the survivors at the level of the European Union of the massive destruction of urban popular fabric at the hands of capital, came the day a fellow social center La Magdalena. An area of anti-authoritarian sociability in the neighborhood, created by anarchist comrades who for two generations of militants has created projects that have reconstituted the popular social fabric, self-management projects disparate thematic areas such as self-production media against 
-information and through this solidarity with anarchists imprisoned comrades, a figure that grows perceptibly.

La Magdalena, along with Aurora Awake or Social Center neighborhood Villaverde and within this the Albatros group, created by militants of the historical anarchist union CNT and the Iberian Anarchist Federation, part of the remarkable network of spaces and anarchist 
projects They exist in Madrid and we had the pleasure to have with us in these Third Conference. They should develop a capacity for coordination and dialogue on the differences between comrades to overcome the problems that has no movement in other 
regions of the Spanish State and meet the powerful rearmament of rights at European level.

The long experience of comrades as lxs Aurora Awaken is an invaluable heritage that we can count on these latitudes also and so we did know the sympathetic companion who attended the space, which similarly applies to the comrades that make up the Albatros group, they 
brought all the comrades in addition to the timely solidarity for our project of social center here, audiovisual material as Ouroboros analyzing the reorganization of the policies of social charity by sectors of the Catholic church to strategically preserve sociale hierarchies in times of crisis.

Another time space presentations and international anarchist experiences was the presentation by a fellow social center Wasteland Australia Sydney, in the context of the anarchist scene of that city. A largely unknown issue here, which described its dynamic 
performance, its themes in relation to an Australian society dominated by rigid internal colonialism concerning indigenous peoples, capitalist destruction of the environment or the rebirth of conservative nationalism and exclusion policies regarding the increasing 
immigration from Africa, Asia and South America. Special significance was the presentation of the initiative of our comrades of the anarchist social center Wasteland in Sydney, to organize a concert of several punk bands of the city, for fundraising in solidarity with 
anarchists compas of San Salvador, which are part of the FACC, and are also creating a social space in that Central American city, an unprecedented action in the dense history of solidarity and mutual assistance of the international anarchist movement.

After 3 pm sesionó space "Problems and prospects anticapitalist movements and 
anti-imperialists in the US ." From the perspective of an activist of the Committee for a 
Workers ' International (CWI) a point where they could not participate fellow anarchist 
scene of that society, but organizers of the day we believed relevant another look like an 
activist CIT (Trotskyist organization, revolutionary Marxist) to this issue.

The analysis of the phenomenon Bernie Sanders occupied a part of the intervention of the 
CIT company and on the other hand the explanation of why the critical support of his 
organization to this professional political representation. It was an argument based on a 
lot of information, something that despite all discrepancies background that generated 
this presentation (: a professional politician talking about socialism in the US .! Is not 
very original ..., the idea of higher wages horizon fighting not so much talk about final 
crisis of capitalism as successful internalization of the logic of the system ... etc., 
were some comments from those present) also broke the misinformation that surrounds these 
issues in the Cuban media environment.

About 4 pm Space "looks (in question) aa globalization" had its time in the Third Day, 
which began with the communication "Cuba view global governance" by a Cuban resident in 
Denmark and, after had experiences of artivism (political activism from the artistic 
discourse) for human rights in Havana, he was able to shape its own critical reflection on 
the limits and contradictions of the actions of the pro-capitalist opposition in Cuba, 
which wanted to share in our space despite points divergences in our approaches to 
reality, which became a very enriching experience, especially in interpersonal dialogue 
that developed later.

The last presentation of the day was that of the Portuguese fellow Library and Observatory 
Disaster of the Global Society (BOESG) in Lisbon, an anarchist cultural space in the city, 
with a theme name that the organizers of the Third Conference believed that I could talk 
directly with the Cuban-Danish, but it was not. What happened was a very substantial 
communication on this space and its interesting career within very little known history of 
anarchism in Portugal and counterculture there means and comparative reflection with the 
anarchist movement in Cuba, as a case of two companies where It produced a similar deep 
generation gap within the anarchist and how to devise ways to transcend the effects of 
that gap.

In a subsequent conversation with lxs our comrades in we could know how important it was 
to overcome the generation gap participation in experiences like Somaterapia proposed body 
therapy to deal with neurotic conflicts, product of living relationships strongly marked 
by authoritarianism and violence internalized method built by the Brazilian anarchist 
psychologist Roberto Freire and other partners. A practice that probably would not have 
been the taste of influential Murray Bockchin, who certainly, if I had known, had not 
hesitated to call it a kind of "anarchism lifestyle", but in contexts such as outlined by 
the Portuguese compas , have the courage to serve as a vehicle for transmitting an 
anarchist sensibility, in places where it is not hand any reference carrier historical 
memory to serve as a link to reconstruct social spaces, affinities and anarchist practice.

The evening concluded with a birthday celebration of one of the partners who participated 
in the day that gave equal space to informal dialogues of a similar value and exceeding 
the planned talks moments.

On Thursday 12th, the last day of the Conference, had significant internal variations, as 
planned lxs organizers, since the initial idea was that the activities of this day will 
meet in Guanabacoa, a municipality in the south of the capital where nuevxs miembrxs 
Workshop Alfredo Lopez Libertario are breaking new ground. Unfortunately the presentation 
"popular expressions of mutual aid in the history of Guanabacoa ..." could not be done and 
decided to take the session that day to the popular Almendares Park very close to where we 
were and there end in a closing picnic.

Collegial decision among those present was very successful, with the theme "Mutual aid, 
direct action and everyday life in some moments of the anarchist debate" of a company of 
Alfredo Workshop Lopez the basis for a surprisingly useful, rigorous and suggestive 
dialogue on centrality of mutual aid as a hallmark of an international movement as 
anarchist, distinct from all modern ideological trends, planting flag in the 
representation of social practices and discourses without an anchor in concrete social and 
emotional relationships, which gives , according to consensus of those present, an 
internal coherence to anarchism, beyond the differences that separate individualists, 
insurrectionalists platformists, especifistas, primitivist or members. Also discussed the 
best vehicle to promote it is to practice, and as a communication vehicle more powerful 
with other anti-authoritarian tendencies and, on the other hand, the Cuban anarchists have 
been direct beneficiaries of that fraternal spirit with colleagues from all sides, 
although for decades the international link was broken.

The cool of the evening under the protective shade of large trees that cover the 
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