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Self-activity, strategy and class power

In this short text Kim Müller writes about why Kämpa Tillsammans see the workplace struggles as central and their strategic view on faceless resistance and self-activity.

Seven long years

Direct Action Gets the Goods

The following article is from issue 10 of Working Class Resistance, August 2005, published by Organise! and written by Jason Brannigan.

Direct Action Gets The Goods

From the black block havin’ a go, to the clown army tickling cops and putting flowers in their hair, from marches to smashing McDonalds, gluing locks to throwing bricks and even it seems going to rock concerts– all of these activities have had the term direct action applied to them incorrectly.

Land and housing - S'bu Zikode

Text of a speech by S'bu Zikode at the Diakonia Council of Churches Economic Justice Forum in Durban on 28 August 2008 addressing the housing situation in Durban, calling for a new kind of grassroots and radically democratic communist project, and ends with a proposal for ten demands around which a united front for a democratic and just city can be built.

Land and Housing
Thursday 28 August, 2008

I have been asked to speak on the burning issues of land and housing. I only get these invitations because of the strength of the movement of which I am part and so, on behalf of Abahlali baseMjondolo, I thank Diakonia for this platform.

TV Times - 30 August - 5 September 2008

This week's pick is a searing fictitious debate on the existence or otherwise of God as discussed by a group of Jews in Auschwitz on the eve of the execution of half of them.

Other highlights examine the effects of Muslim extremism, of the credit-crunch on individuals from varied walks of life and on a middle-class family when the husband is accused of downloading child pornography.

Sunday 31st August - 9 - 10.30pm - BBC1 - Fiona's Story

Anti-semitism and National Socialism - Moishe Postone

Victims of the holocaust.

No functionalist explanation of the Holocaust and no scapegoat theory of anti-Semitism can even begin to explain why, in the last years of the war, when the German forces were being crushed by the Red Army, a significant proportion of vehicles was deflected from logistical support and used to transport Jews to the gas chambers. The specificity of the Holocaust requires a much more determinate mediation in order even to approach its understanding.

Anti-Semitism and National Socialism
By Moishe Postone

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