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What is the Left?

red jack — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:44:33 +0000

An excerpt from

Quote:

The Paris Commune: A Political Declaration on Politics

in Polemics, Verso, 2006. To read the full essay in pdf click here.

Politics at stake: a note on stakeholder analysis

red jack — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:36:48 +0000

Mark Butler and David Ntseng, July 2008

Interview with Movimiento Libertario Cubano (Cuban Libertarian Movement)

Ed — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:07:57 +0000

We’re interviewing the Cuban Libertarian Movement (Movimiento Libertario Cubano – MLC), an organization made up of anarchists in exile in different parts of the world. In these days of apparent change, of transition, as the European and North-American media would have it, it’s of interest to know first hand about what’s happening inside the island.

Where is the struggle going?

Ed — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:37:34 +0000

From the time of our arrival the gate of the big hall at bottom floor was quickly closed, so the occupation was limited to the courtyard, the stairs up until the forth floor and the hallways of the floors.

For the unity of all the sans-papiers collectives!

Ed — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:29:34 +0000

Something new is coming into force in this historically important location in the workers struggle in France. The occupation is made in an autonomous way against every "advice" and recommendation of the big political organizations and against the unions, and it is holding out well.

The Sixth Declaration, the Zapatistas, nationalism and the state

Leam — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:40:22 +0000

Understanding exactly what is meant by the Sixth Declaration is a difficult task. While the Declaration opens with a reference to it being the ‘simple word’(1) of the EZLN there is a certain, perhaps deliberate, lack of theoretical clarity. This can, completely understandably, cause problems interpreting the document and the Zapatista position.

TV Times - 19 - 25 July 2008

Lone Wolf — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:36:48 +0000

Other highlights include an investigation into the hypocrisy of the governments position on green issues, the history of the impact of oil on the Scottish economy since 1975, and an exploration of possible genetic and environmental factors in determining sexual orientation.

Monday 21 July - 8.30 - 9pm - BBC1 - Panorama - Friends in High Places

Resistance from the other South Africa

red jack — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:37:08 +0000

The topic of this particular meeting was 'leadership'. While Abahlali has never stated that it is an anarchist movement many have drawn parallels between 'Abahlalism' and 'anarchism'. Certainly the movement considers both the state and the vanguardist left to be oppressors.

Neha Nimmagudda (2008-07-17)

TV Times - 12 - 18 July 2008

Lone Wolf — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:48:00 +0000

Other documentaries examine the role of the Chinese arms trade in funding the massacre of civilians and how the atrocities of the death camps were made known and subsequent political responses.

Sunday 13 July - 8 - 9pm - Channel 5 - Auschwitz - the Great Escape: Revealed

Tea Break July 2008

Jack — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:15:00 +0000

TV Times - 5 - 11 July 2008

Lone Wolf — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:01:54 +0000

Other political programming this week explores issues such as intolerance of the Muslim community, the encroaching impact of privatisation within the NHS and the reaction of even those traditionally seen as conservative to it and the latest scheme to attempt to reduce youth crime.

Monday 7 July - 8 - 9pm - Channel 4 - Dispatches: It Shouldn't Happen To A Muslim

A brief account of Unison's national conference, 2008

Ed — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:55:42 +0000

I recently attended Unison's national delegate conference in Bournemouth as a delegate from a London local government branch. It was an eye opening experience with respect to the machinations of political groupings within the union.

In particular some of the ways in which the new Labour-linked bureaucracy maintained control over the supposedly lay lead organisation became clear.

TV Times - 28 June - 4 July 2008

Lone Wolf — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:41:55 +0000

Other highlights in a week of high-quality political programming are the classic film which depicts the events of the controversial 1925 American creationism v Darwinism courtroom debate, documentaries on the escalation of gang-related violence in Britain and an investigation into the despicable corporate practice of encouraging tobacco addiction in children in Africa.

The tragedy of Karaganda

Wayne — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:45:18 +0000

Abstract: In March 1939, Republican soldiers who had been training as aviation pilots were stranded in the USSR along with the sailors of several vessels from the Spanish merchant navy. They were prevented from leaving and in 1941 were arrested and sent to Novosibirsk Transit Prison. Also detained were several civilians who had been working with children evacuated from the Civil War.

We are not all like that: the monster bares its fangs

red jack — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:48:52 +0000

The sms’s came fast and furious. As furious as the fiery images we were subjected to by our television and our daily newspapers. The front pages are a festival of beastly pictures of the victims of the negrophobic blood letting which has gripped South Africa in the past weeks.