social movements

The APPO two years on: Where now for Oaxaca's social movement?

angrywhitekid — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:23:49 +0000

This fall in Oaxaca marks a season of commemorations. Already marches for fallen APPO members Jose Jimenez Colmenares and Lorenzo San Pablo Cervantes have woven their ways through the streets of the city, pausing at the spots they were murdered in 2006, holding ceremonies at the Cathedral. Twenty-four more such processions await Oaxaca in the coming months.

Commentary on the Sussex not for Sale campaign at Sussex University

adarcar — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:58:28 +0000

Higher education is going through significant transformations on an international, or at least European, level. The UK is not immune to these changes. Whilst there have been various small protests in places around the country to resist these changes, no major local campaign has existed as of yet. Sussex not 4 Sale was born out of this context.

Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa today

imbokodo — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:11:35 +0000

by Michael Neocosmos

Abstract

The Chinese anarchist movement

Spartacus — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:02:52 +0000

R. Scalapino and G.T. Yu.

Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, 1961

Contents
Editor's Note
Preface
The Origins of Chinese Anarchism
Anarchism and the Nationalist Revolution
The Work-Study Movement
The Anarchist Conflict With Marxism
Editor's Footnote

Editor’s Note

"Ulach smah" ("No forgiveness") - the Algeria insurrection, 2001

Ret Marut — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:43:23 +0000

From the http://www.endangeredphoenix.com/ website

Translated by: B.M.Combustion; (translating this doesn’t imply agreement with the illusions in the article about democratic rights)

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Algeria 2001

The following text was translated in July 2001:

1880-1945: Yiddish-speaking libertarians in France

Steven. — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:04:18 +0000

In the pletzl (Marais) and in Montmartre in Paris (pictured, above), Jewish anarchists had a real influence. In 1907, police reports indicated the presence of about 450 anarcho-communists, an enormous figure if one realises that the immigrant Jewish population living in Paris at the time was about 20,000.

Notes for a discussion on the regeneration of the American labor movement - Dolgoff, 1970s

Steven. — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:30:41 +0000

Sam Dolgoff's notes, analysis and suggestions for re-building a fighting working class movement in the US in the 1970s. Extracted from a larger text, The American labour movement: a new beginning.

Anarchist communism in Britain, 1870-1991

Steven. — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:33:03 +0000

The AF outlines the history of anarchist communism in the UK from the Socialist League in the 1800s through the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation up to the demise of the groups of the 1970s and 80s.

1940-1945: The Zazous

libcom — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:33:36 +0000

French youth against the Nazis

Anarchism in Argentina, 1897-1950

Steven. — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:01:49 +0000

A short article with some information about anarchism in Argentina at its height in the early 20th century.