violence

500 Zambian miners fired after violence during strike

The workers walked out on Monday in protest at low pay and dangerous working conditions in the chinese-owned Chambishi mine.

Violence broke out on Tuesday amid reports that the chinese management were planning to leave on holiday rather than negotiate with striking workers. Reports conflict but it appears that workers threw stones and then burned a kitchen and a guard's post on the site, with management taking refuge until the arrival of riot police. One manager and two workers were reported injured.

An Introduction to The Angry Brigade - Jean Weir

An article about controversial UK anarchist guerrilla group, the Angry Brigade looking particularly at anarchist criticism of them at the time. While we disagree with much of the article we reproduce here for reference.

The eight libertarian militants on trial in the Old Bailey in 1972 who were chosen by the British State to be the `conspirators' of the Angry Brigade, found themselves facing not only the class enemy with all its instruments of repression, but also the obtusity and incomprehension -- when not condemnation -- of the organised left.

The Obscenity of Human Rights: Violence as Symptom - Slavoj Žižek

The anxious expectation that nothing will happen, that capitalism will go on indefinitely, the desperate demand to do something, to revolutionize capitalism, is a fake. The will to revolutionary change emerges as an urge, as an "I cannot do it otherwise," or it is worthless.

With regard to Bernard Williams's distinction between Ought and Must, an authentic revolution is by definition performed as a Must - it is not something we "ought to do" as an ideal we are striving for, but something we cannot but to, since we cannot do it otherwise.

Atlanta families protest against police killings

Relatives of the 11 people killed this year by DeKalb County police protested on Tuesday night to demand a full account of the deaths.

All 11 victims were shot dead, five times more than the usual number of annual killings by police. The families are demanding explainations from the police about the circumstances of the deaths, as they have never been told what actually happened to their relatives.

Iffat Muhammad says she has never known why police shot and killed her brother, Ab-raheem Muhammad in August this year.

Preface to Â»From Cellatex to MoulinexÂ»

from Riff-Raff #2

Destruction As A Means Of Struggle

Anton Pannekoek

This article was apparently first published in Persdienst van de Groep van Internationale Communisten 1933, no. 7 at the same time as the article Individual Acts (a.k.a. The Personal Act). This translation has been made from the french translation in Echanges No. 90 Spring/Summer 1999. For the background to the article see Chapter Six of "La Gauche Communiste Germano- Hollandaise - des origines Ã 1968" by Philippe Bourrinet, available in PDF format at this link.

Class war in Barcelona - Jean Barrot, 1973

The following text is the translation of a pamphlet of the group Mouvement Communiste, written in 1973 by Jean Barrot (aka Gilles Dauve), as a means of solidarity for some Spanish revolutionaries arrested in Spain facing harsh penalties.

Undercurrent #8

Concerning the Attacks in the USA and the War

1. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are an expression of the worldwide economic, social and military policies of the past decades.

The Psychology of Political Violence

Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (Third revised edition, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1917)

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE

TO ANALYZE the psychology of political violence is not only extremely difficult, but also very dangerous. If such acts are treated with understanding, one is immediately accused of eulogizing them. If, on the other hand, human sympathy is expressed with the AttentÃ¤ter, 1 one risks being considered a possible accomplice. Yet it is only intelligence and sympathy that can bring us closer to the source of human suffering, and teach us the ultimate way out of it.

You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship

This essay was was published as a pamphlet around late 1978 or 1979, in the aftermath of the Sydney Hilton Bombing. The black humour of the time around the anarchist movement was that the police and security forces framed Ananda Marga because they came before Anarchism in the alphabet.

he arguments in this pamphlet are still as valid today as when they were written 20 years ago. Reprinting or linking to this text is encouraged.
You Can't Blow up a Social Relationship -
The Anarchist case against Terrorism
Anarres Books Collective

First published (1979?) in Australia by:
LIBERTARIAN SOCIALIST ORGANISATION
P.O. BOX 223. BROADWAY, BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, 4000