activism
Some thoughts relating to the recent events in Prague
1.The likely beneficiaries of the actions in Prague are the Ecology Movement, in its broadest sense, which means the careers of individuals and groups/parties who represent all sorts of ecological politics. (I have used the term "Ecology Movement" in order to highlight where this movement originates, which is also a pointer to where it will end up).
The Dynamics of "Protest†Seen in the Recent Petrol Blockades in Britain
SOME NOTES CONCERNING FUTURE PROLETARIAN INSURGENCY
Part one: The Dynamics of "Protest" Seen in the Recent Petrol Blockades in Britain
The Necessity and Impossibility of Anti-Activism
The Necessity and Impossibility of Anti-Activism
For my part, I do not believe there is 'one solution' to the social problems, but a thousand different and changing solutions in the same way as social existence is different and varied in time and space.
--Errico Malatesta, 1924
Revolution is the communising of society, but this process is more than just the sum of direct actions.
Pondering Information and Communication in Contemporary Anti-Capitalist Movements
Pondering Information and Communication in Contemporary Anti-Capitalist Movements
Steve Wright
Militancy - Highest stage of Alienation
A critique of the role of the political militant, it's misery and arrogance.
Since the occupation movement of May '68, we have seen a whole collection of small organisations which claim to follow Trotskyism, Maoism or anarchism, developing to the left of the Communist Party and the C.G.T [1].
Anti-Capitalism as an Ideology... and as a Movement?
The recent series of international Summit mobilizations have been referred to by some as a 'movement', and have often been treated by the state as a unitary entity. Yet the 'movement' has little existence outside the mobilizations, and is riven with internal contradictions. If anything, it is a political rather than a social movement; as such the question of its ideology needs to be addressed. We analyse the relation to the mobilizations of four ideological tendencies that have become salient from the UK perspective: the progressive liberals, the established left, anarchist/black bloc and Ya Basta! We suggest that for the supposed 'anti-capitalist' mobilizations to become a proletarian movement, connections need to be made with the struggles of the wider proletariat.
Preface: From anti-'globalization' to opposing the war
Reply to Animal's Reply
The third text in an exchange of views prompted by Aufheben's publishing in 1997 of a critique of the Class War organisation. (For the other texts, see links at end of article.)
As the reply-proper (below) to the Animal reply makes clear, the article 'Death of a Paper Tiger' was not written by Aufheben. 'Intakes' articles in Aufheben are 'guest' articles and so do not go through the normal editorial process (of editing, criticism etc.) but nevertheless are considered useful contributions.
A Reply to Death of a Paper Tiger by Animal
Demanding Critical Thought,
or Still Born Aufheben
This is a reply to "Intakes: Death of a Paper Tiger... Reflections on Class War" found on the Aufheben website on Feb. 21st 2000, but printed in 1997, Autumn no.6, in their magazine.
Kill or Chill - An analysis of the Opposition to the Criminal Justice Bill
Last year, the threat of the Criminal Justice Bill galvanised thousands of people to take various forms of action against the state. It also brought very different oppositional elements together in a common practical relationship, many for the first time. In this issue, we examine the possibilities of these struggles.
[b]Part One: Sign of the Times
Practice and ideology in the direct action movement
Undercurrent's contribution to a critique of the politics of anti-capitalist protest.
"The call to abandon their illusions about their condition is a call to abandon a condition which requires illusions".
