I do not mean by this what the ideal of Socialism has to offer to us when we have
got people's heads turned in the right direction, but rather what our present
movement may reasonably expect to come across in its progress towards Socialism; it
is not prophecy that I am about to-night but a reasonable forecast of the few next
moves deduced from the experience of the last few. I consider this a dull job, a
dispiriting job because it must necessarily deal with failure and disappointment
and stupidity and causeless quarrels, and in short all the miseries that go to make
up the degrading game of politics. Still I think it has to be done, in order that
we may get on to the next step, and the... (From: Marxists.org.)
Spain’s municipalist parties suffered a major setback at the May elections — their own actions and inactions are largely to blame for the loss of support.
On May 26, citizens across Spain went to the polls to vote in municipal and European elections. The results were widely seen as a setback to the municipalist wave that swept Spain’s major cities four years prior. Carlos Delclós published one explanation{1}, focusing on the gap between their hype and their policies and how the Catalan independence movement has upset the landscape. To put it simply, parliamentary majorities are now all but impossible, given that the divide between Left and Right has been further divided by a perpendicular axis, the one betwee... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Source: Modern Monthly, Vol. IX. No.5. September, 1935, pp. 267f Transcribed: by Thomas Schmidt;
The Questions
What will you do when America goes to war?
Will your decision be altered if Soviet Russia is an ally of the United States in a war with Japan?
Would a prospective victory by Hitler over most of Europe move you to urge United States participation in opposition to Germany to prevent such a catastrophe?
1.
Personally, I take neither pleasure nor interest in going into any war whatever; still, to declare oneself against war seems to me silly and useless. One has to set material forces against it, not mere attitudes, and anyone who fails to take part in shaping those forces is also not against war, however much he may prote... (From: Marxists.org.)
We’ve reached a breaking point. The murders of George Floyd—and Breona Taylor, Tony McDade, and the other Black people whose lives were ended by police just this month—are only the latest in a centuries-long string of tragedies. But in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the state is openly treating Black communities as a surplus population to be culled by the virus, the arrogance and senselessness of the murder carried out by Officer Derek Chauvin crossed a line. Supported by hundreds of thousands across the US and beyond, the people of Minneapolis have made it clear that this intolerable situation must end, no matter what it takes.
Since the Ferguson uprising of 2014, considerable attention has focused on racist ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Every campaign season, political parties publish platforms detailing their promises plank by plank. These platforms are not binding—politicians rarely fulfill their promises, and it’s often worse when they do—but they do offer an outline of the vision each party claims to represent. Anarchists take a different approach: rather than offering a prefabricated blueprint, we propose to work things out together, dynamically, according to the principles of self-determination, horizontality, mutual aid, and solidarity. Still, whenever people encounter anarchist ideas for the first time, there is a certain kind of person who always demands to see a clear template. In response, one of our contributors has put together an example of ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Over the past week, nearly 700 people have been rounded up in a wave of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweeps across the US. In response, people have blockaded roads and ICE vans and organized massive demonstrations. But what would it take to stop the raids altogether?
The Assault
In some parts of the US, the ICE assault involved brutal militarized raids in which officers smashed windows and set off flashbang grenades inside residential homes. In other places, everything happened so quietly as to go virtually unnoticed: here a bureaucratic change in the status of a prisoner, there the transfer into indefinite detention of an arrestee who was about to be released.
The raids come on the heels of a set of executive orders from ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Chapter 1. Introduction by Endangered Phenix (Written in February 2005)
“In South Africa normal national or ruling-class behavior is rendered uniquely controversial by the color dimension.”
— Peregrine Worsthorne, right-wing assistant editor of the Sunday Telegraph, May 13, 1984
Quoted on the cover of a radical pamphlet in 1984, this seems particularly apt now that the “color dimension” has been ‘virtually’ eradicated from South African politics. The normal national ruling-class behavior of the ANC is, predictably, now every bit as horrific as its white predecessors.
However, clearly this was not predictable for some — which is indicative of some of the weak... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
I was on a Talk Show (Steal This Radio) in the Lower East Side of New York City the other day. I was invited to speak on my recent trip to Mexico. More specifically, ZAPATISTA LAND., One of my Sistuhs said jokingly that we should title this talk: “What’s a Black Man…” we all laughed. But upon second-thought, hmmm … Why not.
I’d like to share with readers my experiences on this my first trip to Zap Land, in particular, and Mexico in general.. I was encouraged to keep a journal and actually ended up keeping two separate ones. There were two reasons for going on this trip. One was to support the on-going Zapatista revolutionary experiment in post-modern liberation struggle, and two, to use the time ... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Published: in International Council Correspondence Vol. 1, no.3, December 1934, pp 18-22. Source: Antonie Pannekoek Archives Transcribed: by Graham Dyer
The New Deal is no harbinger of a “new social order”, nor is its apostle,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, self-proclaimed Messiah for the “forgotten man”, the
really unselfish and public-spirited individual he is portrayed.
Roosevelt’s election was engineered, just like all other previous elections,
by a group of individuals whose economic interests required urgent governmental
aid.
The fall of 1932 saw the complete collapse of American industry and a rising
tide of agrarian discontent. The current occupant of the White House, Herbert
Hoover, place... (From: Marxists.org.)
A member of the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970, Raoul Vaneigem is the author of Traité de savoir-viver à l’usage des jeunes générations (Gallimard, 1967),[1] from which the most forceful slogans of May 68 were drawn, and around thirty other books. The most recent to appear is L’État n’est plus rien, soyons tout (Rue des Cascades, 2011).[2]
Siné Mensuel: Can you give a brief definition of the situationists?
Raoul Vaneigem: No. The living is irreducible to definitions. The vitality and radicality of the situationists continues to develop behind the scenes of a spectacle that has every reason to keep quiet and conceal itself. On the other hand, the ideologi... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
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