Britain

London's anarchist bookfair: the aftermath

The London anarchist bookfair is the biggest annual event for libertarians in the UK. This year was the first since one of the major organisers and founding member left, so Rob Ray interviewed one of the collective to see how they thought it went...

October 21st saw the London anarchist Bookfair take over Holloway Road for the first time since the resignation of one of its most experienced organisers.

Freedom interviewed Alex, one of the bookfair collective’s new members, who is cautiously optimistic about how it went, with decent turnouts and enough funds raised to cover costs:

0400-2000: Northern Ireland - Is it a religious conflict?

Author's note; this is an expanded version of a talk given to the Brecon Political and Theological Discussion Group on Thursday 28th October, 2004. Alternatively it may be read as a greatly condensed version of my book, Ulster Presbyterianism.

Housing Benefit

A short article from 'the Whinger' p. petard on proposed Housing Benefit reform.
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Housing Benefit

Five Pounds and Five Pennies

A short article from 'the Whinger' p. petard on the minimum wage
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Five pounds and five pennies

Last Orders For The Local?

Inspired by the destruction of most of the best pubs in our locality and the increasing difficulty in finding a pub with a bearable atmosphere to enjoy a drink in, Last Orders For The Local? casts a critical eye over recent changes to pub environments and the emergence of Theming as a marketing factor in various fields of leisure and consumption; and ponders how this connects to the balance of class forces and chaes in the way we relate to history and memory.

"The Land is Theirs"

Black Flag #208, June 1996, covered a land squat in London done by "The Land is Ours". This article is the critical evaluation of this by someone who participated.

THE LAND IS THEIRS
or, pace George Monbiot, "This Land Is my Uncle's"

Albert Meltzer obituary

This obituary originally appeared in Black Flag #208, June 1996 and was penned by Stuart Christie.
Albert Meltzer, anarchist, born London, January 7,1920;
died, Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset, May 7, 1996.

What is the Middle Class?

WHAT IS THE MIDDLE CLASS?

Squatting After the CJA

This article is from Black Flag in 1996 and was one of a series looking at the impact of the Criminal Justice Act in the mid 90s.

Squatting after the CJA

The Strange Case of James Alexander's papers

The anarchists wrong. We admit it! Didn't Dad Vlad say the Marxist State would wither away? All we could say was that in Russia only its opponents withered away. Look at Russia now. The Marxist State did wither away in the end, didn't it?

The Southwark Two

The Southwark 2, The Feeble Full-Timer And The Laughable Revolutionaries

I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels (review)

I COULDN'T PAINT GOLDEN ANGELS
Albert Meltzer's Autobiography.

Published by AK Press £12.95. ISBN 1-873176-93-7

The miners' struggle: the need for autonomous organization against the unions - Communism #2

Warning :

Outside and Against the Unions

OUTSIDE AND AGAINST THE UNIONS

A communist response to Dave Douglass' text "Refracted Perspective"

by Wildcat (UK)

INTRODUCTION

The Politics of Debt:: Social Discipline and Control

The Politics of Debt:
Social Discipline and Control [1]

Werner Bonefeld

in: Common Sense No. 17, June 1995
I. Introduction

The Dynamics of "Protestâ€ Seen in the Recent Petrol Blockades in Britain

SOME NOTES CONCERNING FUTURE PROLETARIAN INSURGENCY

Part one: The Dynamics of "Protest" Seen in the Recent Petrol Blockades in Britain

On the Condition of the English Working Class

Work by Engels before he met Marx. Not recommended reading, unless you hate Irish people.

Aufheben Introduction

Aufheben: (past tense: hob auf; past participle: aufgehoben; noun: Aufhebung)

There is no adequate English equivalent to the German word Aufheben. In German it can mean "to pick up", "to raise", "to keep", "to preserve", but also "to end", "to abolish", "to annul". Hegel exploited this duality of meaning to describe the dialectical process whereby a higher form of thought or being supersedes a lower form, while at the same time "preserving" its "moments of truth". The proletariat's revolutionary negation of capitalism, communism, is an instance of this dialectical movement of supersession, as is the theoretical expression of this movement in the method of critique developed by Marx.

Dole autonomy versus the re-imposition of work: analysis of the current tendency to workfare in the UK

Dole Autonomy versus the Re-imposition of Work:
Analysis of the Current Tendency to Workfare in the UK

1. Introduction

Anti-Capitalism as an Ideology... and as a Movement?

The recent series of international Summit mobilizations have been referred to by some as a 'movement', and have often been treated by the state as a unitary entity. Yet the 'movement' has little existence outside the mobilizations, and is riven with internal contradictions. If anything, it is a political rather than a social movement; as such the question of its ideology needs to be addressed. We analyse the relation to the mobilizations of four ideological tendencies that have become salient from the UK perspective: the progressive liberals, the established left, anarchist/black bloc and Ya Basta! We suggest that for the supposed 'anti-capitalist' mobilizations to become a proletarian movement, connections need to be made with the struggles of the wider proletariat.

Preface: From anti-'globalization' to opposing the war