Citizen Participation vs Class Power: Thoughts on community organizing
Ray Valentine talks about the limitations of the community organizing model. This article was first published by Organizing Work.
Fighting On Home Turf: Community Politics & the IWCA
A Black Flag article on the working class community politics of the Independent Working Class Association (IWCA) from 2003.
P.M. - "The Power Of The Neighbourhood" and The Commons
The follow up to Bolo'Bolo which expands on the idea of the role of sustainable community units after capitalism.
Originally published by Autonomedia in 2014.
Taken from http://o500.org/
P.M. - Bolo'Bolo
A playful description of a world composed of small community units (Bolos) after capitalism.
Originally published by Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia in 1983.
Taken from http://o500.org/
Rebel City issue 7
Issue 7 of the London Anarchist newspaper Rebel City.
Co-published by London AF group, Haringey Solidarity Group, IWW, Solfed and others.
Contents: Housing, benefits, IWW, Community struggles & self-organisation, Corbyn & Momentum, Land justice, The Grenfell Tower Inferno & Mutual Aid, Antifascism in the time of Trump, Memory in history, London Anarchist Bookfair, Direct Action Environmentalism.
East London rent strikes, 1938-9
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 26 2017 20:07
On 13 February, 1938, a rent strike began in Stepney, east London. This is an account of tenants' struggles in the area at the time, by Past Tense.
Green bans people 1971-75
Submitted by Steven. on Jun 24 2017 19:25
Historical information about many of the key individuals and groups involved in the "green bans" by Australian construction workers in the early 1970s.
South Africa: class struggle, 'xenophobia' and the local elite
Submitted by red jack on May 21 2015 11:49
This article offers a brief case study of how grassroots self organisation enables communities to resist xenophobic violence in South Africa.
The invasion of waste – Miguel Amorós
Notes for a talk given in Valencia in May 2015 on the proliferation of waste treatment /disposal facilities, an aspect of “sustainable development” whose aim is to perpetuate an urbanized, consumerist way of life at the expense of the remaining traditional rural communities, a tendency that must be contested by a new kind of movement that will seek to bring about an “equilibrium” between rural and urban areas, first in a defensive struggle that enlists those who are “trapped in the conurbations” as well as those who live in the countryside, and then in an offensive struggle involving the “desertion” of the “stockyard-type” pseudo-cities and the resettlement of the depopulated countryside.
Rebellion against police violence - toward community defense, dual power and revolution - First of May Anarchist Alliance
The murder of Mike Brown at the hands of a police officer in Ferguson, MO evoked rage among the people, both in his neighborhood and across the country. The militant protests that followed were an understandable and appropriate response . . . To deal with the problem of police violence we must rebel against police occupation, build the capacity to defend ourselves as well as our neighbors, and create alternative institutions where people can turn to solve problems within our communities in a fair and healthy way.
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