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The Revolutionary Pleasure Of Thinking For Yourself |
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by Anonymous |
29 Aug 2005
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"This is a manual for those who wish to think for themselves, a manual for creation of a personally (rather than ideologically) constructed body of critical thought for your own use, a body of thought which will help you to understand why your life is the way it is and why the world is the way it is. More importantly, as you construct your own theory, you will also develop a practice: a method to get what you want for your own life. Theory, then, must be either practical-a guide to action-or it will be nothing, nothing but an aquarium of ideas, a contemplative interpretation of the world. The realm of ideas divorced from actions is the eternal waiting room of unrealised desires. Forming your own practical theory, what could be called "self-theory," is intimately connected to achieving the realization of your desires." |
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Animal Liberation: Devastate to Liberate, or Devastatingly Liberal? |
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by Anonymous |
29 Aug 2005
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"Today, in the striving for a more tolerable society, the individual is misled into giving themselves up for the glorification of an abstraction. Be that animal liberation, socialism, anti-sexism or whatever. People seem to have unconsciously assumed that their life's desires are unattainable so instead of fighting for themselves, they end up fighting for an ideal or a cause, which gives them the illusion of self-activity. So many individuals remain oblivious to the fact that their attempts to change society are permitted and even encouraged, as long as they alter or change nothing fundamental to the maintenance of class society, or worse, realise this, but cynically go along with it for the ride anyway." |
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Kill or Chill: Analysis of the Opposition to the Criminal Justice Bill |
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by Aufheben |
29 Aug 2005
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"No amount of rights can compensate for the absolute poverty of the proletarian condition. The world of rights is founded upon our alienation. Rights define, not freedom, but its limits. Real freedom can only come about through the dissolution of this world of rights, the restoration of our creative capacities unto ourselves in a world where the free development of each is the condition of the free development of all. Communism [sic] abolishes rights in favour of free determination, the production first and foremost of ourselves as social individuals with richly developed needs and desires. The lobby for rights on the other hand serves to maintain this stinking rotten world of work and duty, unfreedom and poverty." |
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Dole Autonomy Versus the Re-Imposition of Work |
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by Aufheben |
29 Aug 2005
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"The global advance of 'neo-liberalism' has been given fresh impetus in Britain by the election of the New Labour government. Under Blair's leadership, the Labour Party has abandoned its traditional commitment to social democracy and has fully embraced the neo-liberal project originally pioneered by Margaret Thatcher. However, whereas Thatcher was obliged to attack the social consensus that had been built up on the basis of the post-war social democratic settlement, Blair is seeking to build a new 'one-nation' consensus around the on-going attacks on wages, working conditions and welfare entailed by the neo-liberal agenda." |
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Tough times demand a tough response |
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by CNT France |
01 Oct 2009
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Defeats seem to govern our times: massive increases in redundancy; the suicides of workers devastated by the management policies of France Telecom and Renault; the expulsion of undocumented residents (sans-papiers) by the police in Calais or by the "security" group of the CGT in Paris; crackdown on unions in Kanaky (USTKE), Nîmes (CNT), Grenoble (CNT), and elsewhere; the firing of Flash-Ball guns, maiming our youth; the reduction of the farmers' community to despair; the destruction of public utilities; the indifference of the political class toward the employees of Molex, ready to blow up their equipment for a more decent life; racist talk from a minister encouraged by his peers. |
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The history of the worker movement |
by CSR
Previously published: kaou.phpnet.org |
27 Oct 2007
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Erudition and self-satisfaction or revolutionary thinking ?
The crisis the worker movement is going through hasn’t prevented the publication of a great deal of books dealing with its history. Yet, we can be worried about the contents of these books. It could be thought that militants are looking for the reasons of our today’s failures in past struggles. But, it has nothing to do with that. On the contrary, history serves as a sanctuary into which each movement locks itself by praising its founding myths (1917, 1936...). This "history" education aiming at indoctrinating but not at developing any critical mind. |
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Letter to the International Workers’ Movement |
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by Falah Alwan, FWCUI |
25 Mar 2007
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Four years of occupation and destruction have devastated the society, where the streets witness daily killings through explosive bombs, booby traps, cars, and belts.
Unprecedented destructive powers were unleashed in these 4 years to turn people’s lives into hell. All of this happens amongst false promises of democracy and freedom, in the time when the country is stamped by tanks, military vehicles, and tens of thousands of heavily armed soldiers. |
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A New Syndicalism? |
by Flint
Previously published: Northeastern Anarchist #2, November 2001 |
01 Jun 2006
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Anarcho-syndicalism has changed a lot from it's origin in workers'
movements of the late 19th century. It saw many of its practices
adopted by reformist institutions, and other practices rendered
illegal by the repressive hand of the state. Criticisms have grown
outside of workplace related issues, and failures have been revisited
time and again. I'd like to constructively address some of those
criticisms to develop a revolutionary strategy for tactical
intervention with the economic struggles of our class.
Organizing around economic means is not enough |
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Rudolf Rocker shall disappear |
by Institut für Syndikalismusforschung
Previously published: syndikalismusforschung.wordpress.com |
04 Jun 2011
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Statement of the Institut für Syndikalismusforschung (Institute for syndicalism research) |
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Libertarian statement of solidarity with the comrades in Oaxaca, Mexico |
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by International Statement |
17 May 2010
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International libertarian organizations condemn the tragic events of 27 April 2010, when a solidarity caravan of observers bound for the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala (Oaxaca, Mexico) was subjected to a cowardly attack by paramilitaries linked to governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, resulting in the death of comrade Beatriz Alberta Cariño Trujillo and Finnish comrade Jyri Jaakkola. |
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