Miguel Amorós and Tomás Ibañez on the Catalonian crisis – September 2017
Sceptical views on the Catalonian independence movement of 2017 from Miguel Amorós and Tomás Ibañez, who basically maintain that anarchists who join in the nationalist movement, a movement based on mass psychosis and the “marketing” of illusory identity politics (“the Catalonian people is just as abstract a concept as the Spanish people”), thinking they are taking advantage of an opportunity to advance their cause, are being cynically used as the “popular backdrop for a bad play in which an ordinary redistribution of power is being publicly screened”, and later “will have to be punished for snatching their [the Catalonian ruling class’s] chestnuts out of the fire”.
Catalonia: Competing Nationalisms against the Working Class
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 9 2017 06:42
The conflict between the factions defending the existing Spanish state and those seeking a separate Catalonian state continues to accelerate. Whatever the outcome or the detailed twists and turns it is clear that class-conscious workers need to be equally independent from those arguing for either a separate Catalan state or the preservation of the existing state order – both represent the façade behind which the bosses’ class exercise their control.
Does India need a bullet train?
Submitted by Huck Finn on Oct 5 2017 11:39
On September 14, 2017, construction of India’s first bullet train, a much-lauded bilateral project between India and Japan, finally got underway. Although now being used by Narendra Modi’s BJP to further a nationalist agenda, ten years ago, senior BJP leader VK Malhotra slammed a railway budget that initially proposed the idea for high speed rail (HSR), for neglecting infrastructure and safety requirements as well as exposing the existing infrastructure to greater risks.
The Catalan CNT and the Asturias uprising
Submitted by Steven. on Sep 25 2017 10:38
Article responding to criticisms of the anarchist CNT union in Catalonia during the Asturias uprising of 1934. In particular it looks at how the CNT was being repressed by Catalan authorities at the time.
1848 The Year of Revolutions- George Woodcock
Submitted by Reddebrek on Aug 24 2017 01:27
George Woodcock charts the events of the revolutionary wave that swept Europe in 1848. Assessing their political characters, their accomplishments and defeats.
The nation State and nationalism - Oiseau-tempête (André Dréan)
During this end of the century, it is hard to ignore the flood of nationalistic expressions. Nationalism appears to have become the world’s most shared mass ideology.
Against patriotism - against nationalism - down with the national boundaries! - humanaesfera
“If they insist, these cannibals,
On making heroes of us,
They will know soon that our bullets
Are for our own generals.” (the internationale)
The Makhnovist movement and the national question in the Ukraine, 1917-1921
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 26 2017 09:35
A detailed account and analysis of the Ukrainian revolutionary anarchist army, during the Russian revolution, written by Aleksandr Shubin.
Why is there a Esperanto Workers Movement?: Gary Mickle
English translation of Gary Mickles article about the creation of the Esperanto workers movement and its guiding prinicples.
Anatomy of American Patriotism
Rage Against Capital critiques American Patriotism
