anarchism
Female Consciousness and Collective Action in Barcelona - Temma Kaplan
Article on women's protests in Spain between 1910 and 1918, which had many similarities to those that sparked the French and Russian Revolutions.
Jeff Monson set to fight in UK again
MMA fighter and anarchist Jeff Monson is to fight again in the UK later this year.
Monson is set to return to the UK in May to fight for a second time in Cage Wars, against an as yet unnamed opponent. The fight card for the event is yet to be confirmed but Monson is expected to headline the event again, this time in Birmingham.
The leopard in the 20th century: value, struggle and administration by William Dixon
Capitalism does have objective characteristics... The surplus is appropriated as surplus value. We could now leave the analysis there and so reproduce all the worst aspects of 'scientific' marxism... Too much of marxism has appeared to endorse this approach… We are led to believe in a set of objective conditions that mature when, hey presto! - crisis! And the working class is woken up…The alternative is to stress the struggle of the working class... This view fails though to consider… how the struggle leads to development of the categories and hence new conditions of struggle... We need to develop an understanding of capital as embodying both objective and subjective aspects.
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An examination of the changes within capitalism as a response to the development of the antagonistic class.
Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come e bisogna che tutto cambi. (If we want everything to stay as it is, everything has to change). The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
Colin Ward
I can't claim to have known him but I did visit Colin shortly after Talking Anarchy - a book entirely made up of a fascinating exchange between him and David Goodway - was brought out. I suspect mine was one of the last published interviews he gave as he was already getting very frail by then.
The interview itself I reproduce below, forgive the somewhat florid style I was still getting the hang of things...
DEBENHAM is one of the prettier villages in Suffolk, with immaculate little white cottages overlooking clean roads bedecked with flowers.
Democracy and Anarchy - Errico Malatesta
Anarchist Errico Malatesta's critique of democracy in capitalist society.
The rampant dictatorial governments in Italy, Spain and Russia, which arouse such envy and longing among the more reactionary and timid parties across the world, are supplying dispossessed 'democracy' with a sort of new virginity.
Work and the free society - Anarchist Federation
The Anarchist Federation analyse work in modern capitalist society, what is wrong with it and what we can all do to help rectify it.
In the anarcho-primitivist film Fight Club,1 its central character, Tyler Durden, has a message for those who think they run society and that we exist to meet their needs:
- 1. libcom note: we would disagree with the characterisation of this film as "anarcho-primitivist "
The Basic Alternative Education of a Chinese Punk
Translation of an autobiographical essay by Tang Shui'en, mainland Chinese anarchist musician and activist, recounting his path from childhood in 1980s rural China to participation in Wuhan's pioneering punk scene since the late 1990s, interaction with overseas anarchists and other radicals, and experimentation with independent media and an autonomous youth center. Written in early 2009 for a forum on social space among the generation of Chinese mainlanders born in the 1980s, organized by the Shao Foundation. Original Chinese text here.
For those who are of the common masses, how many of us can say we are conscious of the forces of domination that push us to society’s margins? Apart from a small minority, most people—even if at every moment they feel discomfort—are unable to determine the roots of this pain. The word “marginal” itself is so abstract that it can only serve as a code of recondite academia and mass media.
Class War Issue 73 - Beyond the Bullshit: In A Galaxy Far, Far Away...
Article from Class War Issue 73 looking at the future beyond the dissolution of the Class War Federation
In this issue of the paper we have been as honest and as frank as we can. We have taken the bold step of getting our dirty washing out in public. Being self-critical can seem negative, but we believe that this is now the most positive thing to do.
Class War Issue 73 - Getting Organised
Article from Class War Issue 73 looking at revolutionary organisation.
When Class War started, we saw ourselves as standing in opposition to virtually every other political organisation existing in the UK. Arrogant? Maybe. But we stood in total opposition to the Left's traditional hierarchical way of doing things and we wanted some new form of organisation to match our politics.
Class War Issue 73 - Make Your Own Tea: Women's Realm and Other Recipes and Patterns
Article from issue 73 of Class War looking at the reasons why so few women joined Class War (and other revolutionary groups).
This piece is written for all revolutionaries. This is not the token 'women's bit' that's stuck in for the sake of appearances. This is an attempt to look at how and why the Left, and Class War in particular, has not just failed to attract women, but alienated, patronised and looked upon them as a minority group. How can half the working class be treated as a minority?
