Blogs
News comparisons - start of 2008
A while back I did a story count exploring how much the mainstream media actually writes in comparison to anarchist press and online. So, having done a Freedom revamp with more stuff levered in, and as an exercise to see how online is doing in terms of story count, I thought I'd revisit the subject...
Back in November 2006 in this blog, I did a quick analysis of our media and how it compares to the mainstream in any given fortnight (to accommodate the fact that Freedom comes out that often - look at me ma I'm making the sun orbit the earth 
- also because it's a handy ten-day cycle of workdays).
Forthcoming Attractions – February - May 2008
A selection of UK and US books to be distributed by Turnaround in the UK, that may be of interest.
Forthcoming Attractions – February 2008
Broue, Pierre and Temine, Emile “The Revolution and Civil War in Spain” Haymarket Books, Pbk, 590pp £30.00
St. Clair, Jeffrey “Born Under a Bad Sky. Notes from the dark side of the earth” AK Press, Pbk, 300pp £10.00
Forthcoming Attractions – March 2008
Freedom Deadlines
Attached are the submission deadlines for the first half of this year's Freedom, so if any of you budding writers need to check, it's now on here. First of the year is January 10th.
We're going A4
It looks like our first Freedom of the year is going to be one of those issues.
Okay so it looks like we're going to do this thing with making Freedom an A4 size publication, which means the inevitable confusion, tears and recriminations. It's kind of like moving house except the arguments begin with what shape the furniture should be and decorating has to be done by committee.
Annual report 2007
Since it's the end of the year, here's a very short annual report, with a graph!
This year at libcom.org has seen a lot of changes. We upgraded to Drupal 5.x, fixed some long standing forum issues, finally got our server to a point where it doesn't crash every day. The site has also seen over 1,300 new users and around 100,000 forum posts since this time last year.
It's Freedom, dummy!
There's nothing definite in this, but in the PDF attached is a dummy of a proposed A4 Freedom newspaper which is going for discussion to the collective, which I'd like people to comment on.
What we're mainly looking at here is shapes and styles rather than content, so don't be put off by the downpage article on the front 
. The articles are mostly taken from issue 6820 to give a bit of realism to the whole thing, but they've been simply hacked off at the end where they're too long so this isn't a finished product or anything.
Anarchy Alive!
New book!
Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory by
Uri Gordon
Anarchy Alive!
Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory
Uri Gordon
Pb / £15.99 / 9780745326832 / Published 14th January 2008
Pluto Press
www.anarchyalive.com
France: not as inefficient as post-Thatcher Britain
As is often the case when large-scale strikes break out, those deeply professional people in the mainstream press have been sitting on the fence as neutral reporters of the news.
The Times has managed a doozy today:
Quote:
The civil service strike, led by leftwing unions, is a warning shot by the forces of conservative resistance to Mr Sarkozy's attempts to ease the burden of regulation and subsidies that choke the French economy...Mr Sarkozy's plans to slim down the country's mammoth civil service.
Updates from Nanterre
Some of today's events at Nanterre
The day began badly with the university authorities calling the police. Around 100 Gendarmes were used to break the blockade, tear gas and batons were used on the picketers. There were no arrests, the police satisfying themselves with hitting a few people, although there do not appear to have been any serious injuries.
Unstable universalities - Poststructuralism and radical politics
New book by Saul Newman
Unstable universalities
Poststructuralism and radical politics
Saul Newman
Manchester University Press
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9NR
+44 (0) 161 275 2310
www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
How do we think about radical politics today,
in the wake of the collapse of Marxist-Leninism
and the triumph of neo-liberal capitalism?
How should radical political theory respond
Nanterre strike leaflet
A translation of a leaflet distributed by students involved in the strike action and blockades.
side 1
NANTERRE VOTES TO STRIKE
The General Assembly (AG) at Nanterre on Thursday 8th of November broguht together over 1000 students, teachers and staff of the university. More and more universities are joining the strike.
A large majority at the AG voted for the repeal of the law on autonomy for universities and for the blockade of the university until Monday.
Nicolas Walter book launch
Monday 10 December - 7.00pm
You are invited to join us at Housmans Bookshop, Caledonian Road, London to launch “The Anarchist Past and other essays” by the late Nicolas Walter, edited by David Goodway.
Free, refreshments.
Info: 0115 9693597
My fave libertarian socialist books (or books close to it)
Why not eh?
In no particular order:
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"For Workers' Power" by Maurice Brinton
"Parecon: Life After Capitalism" by Michael Albert
"After Capitalism" by David Schweickart
"Principles of Syndicalism" by Tom Brown
General meeting at Nanterre
This is a translation of a flyer produced by Nanterre students.
Resist, go to the AG!
The mobilisation has begun.
Free to do.. what?
True individual freedom is a fantasy in a world of billions.
Quote:
No one who can't determine hir moral structure and limits can be said to own hirself.
This quote comes from here, and seems to be implying that collective struggle and revolution will lead to a cessation of freedoms for people.
Assemblée générale at Nanterre
This is a translation of a report of the Assemblée générale held at Nanterre, issued by the student group AGEN (general association of students of Nanterre)
The General Assembly held on Tuesday 16th of October at Nanterre, attended by over 300 students, teachers and administrative staff, came out in favour of the withdrawal of the loi Pécresse. [This new law gives 'autonomy' to universities in terms of budgets and is supposed to create a university system better to suited to the job market]
We have adopted the following platform:
mandated, recallable delegates
I was just thinkng about the traditional anarchist decision making structure, i.e. federation of local groups where.
Forthcoming Attractions – January 2008
Some books that may or may not be of interest that are due to be distributed by Turnaround Publisher Services as of January 2008 in the UK
Forthcoming Attractions – January 2008
Deville, Nancy “Death by Supermarket. The fattening, dumbing down and poisoning of America” Barricade, 336pp. Pbk, £10.99
Doctor, Bernard Aquina “Malcolm X for beginners” For beginners, 128pp. Pbk £8.99
Beer and Revolution
The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914
Tom Goyens
Beer and Revolution
The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880-1914
Tom Goyens
Understanding an infamous political movement's grounding in festivity and defiance
Christie Films - new titles
A thread for all new items announced by ChristieFilms
(newest items at top of thread)
New on Christiebooks (Dec 31/12/2007)
Zapata en Chinameca (1987 - Mario Hernandez Feature)
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1361619853
Tenemos raices suficientes (1996 Documentary)
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1360345090
Los maquis de la imposible esperanza (2003 Dominique Gautier - Documentary)
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1360345035
