Best of the worst
A selection of articles with deeply flawed politics. Both from authoritarian and misguided libertarian points of view.
"Greedy bankers": a facebook argument preserved for posterity
By popular demand, a facebook argument over the pictured posters.
weeler: Recessions are inherent in the boom bust cycle of capital, "greedy bankers" are a scapegoat distracting from the fact that this will happen again and again and again. Blaming them implies you could have a nicer capitalism with good bankers, this is social democracy at best.
Choccy: embarrassing
Praxis - Local Policy Framework
Anarchist group Praxis's supposedly "realistic" programme to be implemented by 2010.
[b] We do not agree with this programme, or think that it is possible or even desirable. However we include it for reference as an example of self-styled "pragmatic" anarchism, which is in fact anything but.
Militant on the Falklands War, 1982
Extract from an article by Militant (now the Socialist Party) demonstrating their support for Britain in the Falklands War.
Militant International Review No22, June 1982 wrote:
The labour movement should be mobilised to force a general election to open the way for the return of a Labour government to implement socialist policies at home and abroad. Victory of a socialist government in Britain would immediately transform the situation in relation to the Falklands.
Smack a white boy part two: Crimethinc eviction 2009
A hilariously stupid action carried out by self-proclaimed "anarchist people of colour" who came to Pittsburgh to evict a conference of equally useless lifestylist anarchoids Crimethinc, because they are mostly white, accusing them of "gentrifying" and "colonising" the area by holding their conference.
Here is a statement put out by one of the disrupters of the conference, which we reproduce for reference and amusement only:
Note:this is a brief summery of the actions that took place, and in no way describes the situation in full
Class War "bashing the rich"
A quite disgusting extract from Class War's book "a decade of disorder" showing a punk punching a man in the face with a condom filled with faeces seemingly for the crime of wearing a suit.
Anti-semitism in Adbusters, 2004
A quite appalling article from Adbusters magazine entitled "Why won't anyone say they are Jewish?" listing 50 influential neoconservatives and highlighting Jews in the list with black dots - well, at least they don't use yellow stars.
We reproduce the article for reference only. The list of names is attached at the bottom of the article.
Why won't anyone say they are Jewish?
The Socialist Workers Party on the Iran-Iraq war, 1987
Brief extracts from Socialist Worker, which illustrate the SWP's support for Iran during the Iran-Iraq war.
“we have no choice but to support the Khomeini regime”
"...it would be wrong to strike...
“socialists should not call for the disruption of military supplies to the front… should not support actions which could lead to the collapse of the military effort”
Socialist Worker - 28/11/87
The distraction of class, 2002 - AYN discussion
An article written by one member of the Anarchist Youth Network in its more lifestylist wing. It is reproduced here as a useful example of the attitudes of this individualist trend in the organisation against class analysis, with a response to it.
The response was by one of the class struggle anarchists in AYN. A long debate on the open email list (hence the informal style) ensued but only one response is included, as none of the points in it were really accepted by the author, T, and the disagreement over class lasted right up until the end of the organisation, and rendered it basically useless within that time.
American defeat: an anti-state communist perspective on the war in Iraq, 2003 - Kevin Keating
Keating's analysis of the US-UK war in Iraq, which we disagree with and which contains numerous flaws, including casual anti-semitism. We reproduce it for reference only.
American defeat: an anti-state communist perspective on the Iraq war
Paedophilia and American anarchism - the other side of Hakim Bey
An article about the paedophilia of lifestylist, mystic, individualist "anarchist" Hakim Bey, aka Peter Lamborn Wilson
Pedophilia and American Anarchism - The Other Side of Hakim Bey (with bibliography & sample poem)
By Robert P. Helms
