Posted by Phil Dickens on 28/02/2010 · Leave a Comment
Part six in a series of articles discussing the anarchist movement as it relates to non-European peoples and cultures. Latin America is, as far as the planners in Washington have always been concerned, the United States’s “backyard.” As such, it has been acquianted with US imperialism and the reality of the global “free market” doctrine … Read more
Filed under Anarchism, ethnicity & culture · Tagged with A Las Barricadas, Anarchism, CNOC, Confederacíon de Trabajadores de Cuba, Confederación Nacional Obrera Cubana, CTC, Cuba, Daniel Ortega, Errico Malatesta, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Jason adams, Latin America, Mexico, MLC, Movimiento Libertario Cubano, Nicuragua, populism, Venezuela, Zapatistas
Posted by Phil Dickens on 26/02/2010 · 3 Comments
“The class war is over.” So declared former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 1999. Of course, Blair was speaking from the perspective of a most zealous convert to centre-right neo-liberalism, but his words held a ring of truth. Over perhaps the last twenty years, and certainly the past decade, there has been a marked … Read more
Filed under Anarchism · Tagged with bigotry, capitalist class, class consciousness, class struggle, class war, Emily Pankhurst, Howard Zinn, Immigration, Lindsay Oil Refinery strikes, Manufacturing Consent, middle classes, Nationalism, Noam Chomsky, Patriotism, ruling class, Tony Blair, trade unions, war, working class
Posted by Phil Dickens on 18/02/2010 · 4 Comments
I am, as those who read my articles regularly should be aware, an anarchist communist. I want to see a world where the workers control industry and communities manage their own resources, without the oppressive interference of the state, capital, or any other top-down structure. Perhaps less-known is the fact that I am also an … Read more
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Posted by Phil Dickens on 05/02/2010 · 3 Comments
I recently came across this video by anarcha-feminist group No Pretence on YouTube; As the information panel on the video’s page states, it comes from “an intervention” at the Anarchist Movement Conference 09 ”by a masked group of women who were pissed off by the patriarchy which is (still) evident within the anarchist movement.” Watching it gave me … Read more
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