World Map of Contemporary Uprisings (work in progress)
framacarte.org/fr/map/world-map-of-contemporary-uprisings_203221
The goal of this map is to make the strength of our class more visible when it enters in movement. It is a way of highlighting the paths that insurgents around the world are walking in towards revolution. Above all, this map is a call to strengthen exchanges between revolutionaries and to create new ones.
Only uprisings for which we have found texts that are rooted in the struggle and take a stand for the struggle are listed on the map. These texts give us an overview of the practices that are being implemented and the perspectives that are being discussed. We do not necessarily agree with everything that is said in all the texts (framework for analysis, etc.), but we list them because they contain traces of revolutionary activity, even if sometimes you have to read between the lines to decipher it. Where there is nothing, it is not because there is no struggle, because capital everywhere provokes resistance and revolt in the face of the shitty life it imposes on us. If there is no point on the map, it is rather because the echoes of revolts in those parts of the world have not reached us. Consequently, this is also an invitation to all comrades to send us information about uprisings they know about or have heard about.
The period covered by the map includes “contemporary” uprisings from the turn of the 2000s to the present day (we have also found some accounts and analyses of certain uprisings in the 1990s, such as Albania in 1997, Iraq in 1991, and Los Angeles in 1992). Any attempt at periodization is debatable. The aim here is simply to highlight the global dynamics of class struggle in which the uprisings of recent times are embedded, i.e., after the collapse of the USSR and the establishment by the bourgeoisie of the new international division of labor that developed massively from the 1990s onwards and which some have called “globalization.”