Aufheben

Articles from aufheben, a Brighton-based annual Marxist journal with autonomist influences. For aufheben's homepage on libcom see http://libcom.org/aufheben

A phenomenal anti-war movement? - Aufheben

The movement against the war on Iraq was larger and more exciting than other recent anti-war movements. This article focuses on the organization and character of the movement in the UK, and describes how some of the dynamics of the movement as a whole were played out in one UK city, where we were involved.

We argue that the feeling that what happened was challenging lay not so much in the nature of the actions, but rather in the number and variety of people brought into the movement and in the failure of the liberal peace movement to exercise the usual control.

Appendix: Oil Wars and New World Orders in Historical Context

Introduction[1]

Following the conversion of the Royal Navy from coal in 1911 and the development of petro-chemical industries after WW2, oil became a militarily and economically important resource for the major imperialist powers.

Resistance to the 1991 Gulf War - Treason pamphlet

This pamphlet - a collection of articles - was prepared for the Zerowar conference which was held in Wollongong on the 8th of December 2002.

'Anti-capitalism' as ideology...and as movement? - Aufheben - Treason pamphlet

“Anti-Capitalism As Ideology...And As Movement?” is an analysis of the anti-summit movement by the British communist group Aufheben which was first published in the tenth annual issue of their journal in September 2001.

Aufheben "Behind the Twenty-First Century Intifada" Treason pamphlet

“Behind the Twenty-First Century Intifada” was originally published in Aufheben #10, September 2001. Aufheben have a website at: www.geocities.com/aufheben2

“Provisional Notes on the Situation in Palestine and Further Afield” was handed out at a demonstration in London in May 2002. No War But The Class War have a website at: www.geocities.com/nowar_buttheclasswar/index.html

Argentina 2001 uprising Treason pamphlet

This pamphlet was produced to make available information about the massive working class revolts in Argentina in 2001-2. These struggles were probably the most important action of the global proletariat in recent years. In time what happened in Argentina will come to be seen as an event of similar importance to May 1968 in France when 10 million workers went on wildcat strike for three weeks.

Intakes: 'Rostock or: How the New Germany is being Governed'

In this abridged translation of an article originally published in Wildcat (Germany), it is shown how the state is using the issue of racism to develop its 'social strategy of tension'.

Aufheben #1 Editorial

Aufheben #1 Editorial: "Theoretical criticism and practical overthrow are ... inseparable activities, not in any abstract sense but as a concrete and real alteration of the concrete and real world of bourgeois society." (Karl Korsch.)

Aufheben

Aufheben: (past tense: hob auf; past participle: aufgehoben; noun: Aufhebung)

Introduction to Aufheben

Aufheben - UK, 1992-present
Aufheben is a journal published in Brighton, UK.

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