Posted by Phil Dickens on 28/03/2010 · Leave a Comment
The seventh and final part in a series of articles discussing the anarchist movement as it relates to non-European peoples and cultures. What lessons are to be learned from the examples of anarchism beyond the West? How can we build upon them to make a truly global resistance movement? Throughout this series, one of my major sources has … Read more
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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
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Posted by Phil Dickens on 31/01/2010 · 1 Comment
Part five in a series of articles discussing the anarchist movement as it relates to non-European peoples and cultures. Asia is home to over half of the world’s population, with 1,338,612,968 people in the People’s Republic of China alone. As such, it represents a vital demographic of the global working class, and one which cannot … Read more
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Posted by Phil Dickens on 29/11/2009 · Leave a Comment
Part three in a series of articles discussing the anarchist movement as it relates to non-European peoples and cultures. In African Anarchism: the history of a movement, Sam Mbah and I.E. Igariwey state the following case; To a greater or lesser extent, all of [...] traditional African societies manifested “anarchic elements” which, upon close examination, … Read more
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