anti-capitalism
Against war and capitalism - No War But The Class War
Leaflet from November 2001 analysing the movement against the war in Afghanistan.
The civilian death toll mounts in Afghanistan, to be added to the thousands who died in New York. The refugee crisis grows daily, with millions more facing starvation. Ground troops are sent in and we are warned to expect a long drawn out bloody conflict. War certainly lays bare the horrors of capitalism.
Anti-War Demonstrations
A good day out in London? Some reflections on May Day 2000 - Practical History
Reflections on the May Day 2000 actions in London and the development of the anti-capitalist movement.
This was written as a contribution to a collection of articles called 'Reflections on May Day'. Unfortunately it didn't make it into the magazine as I missed the publication deadline. This was not just due to me slacking - I was hesitant about the content because the conclusion of 'well it wasn't so bad' didn't seem to be saying very much.
EU ro top
Leaflet distributed outside the Dutch embassy in London, to coincide with the demonstrations in Amsterdam against the 1997 Eurotop meeting of European heads of state.
Saturday June 14th saw about 50 000 people turn out in Amsterdam for the March for Social Justice. The majority of people there were protesting against the increase in unemployment and social exclusion, they wanted a socialist Europe in which all would be included. So this demonstration was seen by them as an alternative to the Eurotop - the name given to the Euro-summit.
Report on 1997 Amsterdam anti-EU demonstrations
A report on the 1997 Amsterdam anti-EU demonstrations, prepared for the AUT-OP-SY mailing list.
Comrades,
I just got back from Amsterdam last night after a week there. I haven't had time to read the large amount of posts on the EU rot op, so this will repeat much info. But I thought you might like a quick first hand report.
A free newspaper called Amsterdamned was distributed.
Saturday
Review of 'Reflections on J18' - Undercurrent
Undercurrent's review of the critical 'Reflections on J18' pamphlet on the 'Carnival Against Capitalism' which happened in London in 1999.
June 18 saw the biggest riot in London in years. A broad alliance of mostly ecological groups had called for a "carnival against capital" as on that day the political character masks of the world's eight biggest economies had their annual summit in Cologne, Germany. The event itself was as diverse as the alliance that had initiated it.
Seattle: the first US riot against 'globalisation'? - Loren Goldner
Loren Goldner's article for Undercurrent #8 on the anti-WTO protests which took place in Seattle in 1999.
Mass politics in the streets disappeared in the U.S. between 1970 and 1973. In retrospect, it is clear that the years 1964 to 1970 were not a "pre-revolutionary situation", but anyone who lived through those years as an activist can be forgiven for thinking it was. Any number of people in the ruling circles shared the same error of judgement.
Antisemitism and the (modern) critique of capitalism
The paper argues that modern antisemitism is the ‘rumour about Jews’ as personification of hated forms of capitalism. I will first look at some contemporary expressions of antisemitism, and theses IV and V explore Adono’s and Horkeimer’s (1989) and Postone’s (1986) understanding of Nazi antisemitism.
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The Nazi ideologue Rosenberg (1938) formulated the modern essence of antisemitism succinctly when he portrayed it as an attack on Communism, Bolshevism, and Jewish capitalism, a capitalism not of productive labour and industry, but of parasites - money and finance, speculators and bankers.
The Capitalist State: Illusion and Critique by Werner Bonefeld
Johannes Agnoli has reminded us of the need to complement Marx’s critique of political economy with the critique of the political, of the state. Marx never wrote his projected book on the state. This has let generations of Marxists to argue over "the" Marxist theory of the state.
Would Marx’s book on the state really have been a theory of the state—and not a critique of the state? Yet, it was a theory of the state that was sought.
Reclaim the Streets, Islington 1995 and the role of road-building in the restructuring of Capital and the recomposition of the proletariat - Antagonism
Leaflet written for distribution at a 1996 Reclaim the Streets occupation of the M41 motorway, looking at the limitations of such occupations in the broader context of the capitalist restructuring occuring at the time.
Returning to Upper Street a week or two after July '95 "Reclaim the Streets" was unsettling and strange. Heavy traffic now roared through the area where a children's sandpit previously was and where a settee and carpet had been too.
All the worlds a rage? - Red and Black Notes
An examination of the then newly emerging anti-capitalist movement in the aftermath of "The battle of Seattle".
In the year since the November 30 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, the radical press have published article after article proclaiming a new spirit of revolt: Surely the presence of thousands of young radicals, often carrying the red and black flags of anarchism, is the opening of a new era of global revolt after years of capitalist ‘business-as-usual.'
