Anarchism, Mutual Aid, and Self-Organization: From the George Floyd Uprising to India’s Farmer Rebellion
The following essay examines the explosion of mass struggles in India under the far-Right Modi government while comparing them to the George Floyd uprising in the United States, highlighting the role that mutual aid and self-organization played in each. This article was first published by It's Going Down.
Farmers' protests in India: resources
Submitted by libcom on Dec 17 2020 17:18
A compilation of resources about the current wave of strikes and protests by farmers in India, compiled by Amritpan Kaur.
For Migrant Labourers An Amnesty with Capitalism Is a Mockery
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 22 2020 19:56
Which is worse? The hypocrisy of an Italian Minister of Agriculture shedding tears in public over the supposed end to the maltreatment of cheap migrant field workers in Italy or the hypocrisy of Johnson’s Brexit government sanctioning the airlifting of workers from the poorer parts of Europe to work in British fields during the lockdown? This is an outline of what’s been going on recently in Italy.
Five Theses on the Class Struggle - by Anton Pannekoek
Anton Pannekoek's classic manifesto against state socialism (democratic or otherwise) and for council communism, an industrial society governed by a democracy of workers' councils
Debunking the myth of "Irish slaves"
Submitted by Anonymous on Mar 20 2020 19:35
A detailed, seven part series of articles by Irish historian Liam Hogan systematically demolishing the white supremacist myth of there being Irish slaves in the Caribbean or Americas, and that these "slaves" were treated worse than enslaved Africans.
The Ifugao—People without Government
Submitted by Bandilang Itim on Mar 3 2020 15:22
An anarchist anthropological review of the Ifugao people who constructed elaborate rice terraces without forming a government structure.
1928: The Santa Marta Massacre
Submitted by Reddebrek on Dec 14 2019 15:20
Diplomatic reports from various US and Colombian government agencies and the United Fruit Company about a strike by plantation workers in 1928 and the governments bloody actions to break it. The Santa Marta strike is often referred to as the Banana massacre due to its high death toll.
2014: Vermont Migrant Farmworkers March and Picket for Return of Withheld Pay
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jun 28 2019 18:24
An acocunt of picketing by Migrant workers at a dairy in Vermont over poor living and working conditions and wage theft.
Why I work on the land
TIM MEADOWS is a farm worker in Essex.
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