Review; Mutual Aid: an introduction and evaluation by Iain McKay
A review of Iain McKay's introduction and evaluation to Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid, reviewed by Paul Petard.
This extended essay, published in pamphlet form by AK Press, is based on research Ian McKay did for his introduction to the new Freedom Press edition of Kropotkin's Mutual Aid. It deals not only with Kropotkin's work, but also on issues in science writing in general, and encompasses Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould and Matt Ridley among others.
Don't be an overtime addict - Paul Petard
Submitted by Dan Radnika on Jan 24 2012 21:07
This little booklet was produced by the anarcho-communist cartoonist Paul Petard in the early 2000s some time, when he was working at the Post Office in London.
More politics please - Paul Petard
Submitted by Dan Radnika on Nov 20 2011 13:06
A booklet produced by anarchist cartoonist Paul Petard in 2003. One frame asks the question "Is the economic system really dynamic or just a bubble based on borrowed funny money?" Now, in 2011, we know the answer to that one!
A new job becomes available, and other doodles - Paul Petard
Submitted by Dan Radnika on Nov 13 2011 19:53
Various doodles produced by anarchist cartoonist Paul Petard over the last two or three decades, relating to various political subjects.
121: A brief personal trip down memory lane - Paul Petard
Paul Petard reflects on a squatted social centre, now evicted, that he used to frequent.
(Oh no I've got to walk down Railton Road again.)
121Railton Road: South London's world famous radical squatted house/anarchist bookshop/autonomous social centre/free community space survived for a record breaking 18 years before being evicted. Some people claim the place was haunted, by the ghost of euro punk perhaps.
Коммунизм до революции - Paul Petard
.....Если мы примем тот факт, что на данный момент борьба просто идёт своим ходом, что мы «застряли» в слабой и разобщённой классовой борьбе, что нет непосредственной возможности успешного свержения капитализма путём центрального политического физического действия, тогда в каком-то смысле борьба и бунт освобождаются.
John Zerzan and the primitive confusion, by En Attendant - Paul Petard
Paul Petard reviews a pamphlet criticising the primitivism of John Zerzan.
This Chronos pamphlet, John Zerzan and the primitive confusion is a reprint of a French text which was translated in September 2000 to coincide with a talk in London by the political neo-primitivist John Zerzan. The talk was hosted by U.K.
Kommunismen före revolutionen - Paul Petard
... Om vi accepterar att dagens kamper "bara" är pågående, att vi är "fast" i en svag och fragmenterad klass kamp, att det inte finns någon omedelbar möjlighet med en lyckad och total omstörtning av kapitalismen genom en central politisk fysisk aktion. Då blir kamperna och revolterna på ett sätt befriade.
Communism before the revolution - Paul Petard
Paul Petard discusses the unobtainability of a future human community, unless the current struggle to meet needs and desires becomes the primary focus.
.....If we accept that for the time being struggle is just ongoing, that we are “stuck” in a weak and fragmented class struggle, that there is no immediate possibility of the successful complete overthrow of capitalism in a central political physical action then in a sense struggles and revolts become liberated.
The Good and Bad Old Days - The Whinger
Submitted by Red Marriott on Dec 26 2007 11:32
The following notes look at various developments in employment, unemployment, and industrial struggles, mainly in the UK, through the period of the sixties, and up to the mid-seventies.
These notes are not revolutionary, they don't even claim to be radical,... I_just nicked them and adapted them from an old seventies cyclopedia I found in a charity shop!. But they do tell a story, and they illustrate a big process of change at a critical turning point.
From; The Whinger - Irregular journal of hysterical madterialism; No. 6, Oct 2007.
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