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 11/11/2009 · 3 Comments
Ninety one years ago today, at 11:00am, the guns fell silent on the Western Front. Not two minutes earlier, George Lawrence Price became the last Commonwealth casualty of the Great War after being shot in the heart by a German sniper. Up to 16 million people had fallen before him. The war was a case … Read more
Filed under Fascism, The state · Tagged with 11th November, Anarchism, anti-imperialism, anti-war, dulce et decorum est, militarism, Nationalism, Patriotism, peace, Remembrance Day, the rise of fascism, The state, wilfred owen
Posted by Phil Dickens on 14/07/2009 · Leave a Comment
In the wake of the more recent developments in the Afghanistan war, which I’ve commented on at length in Truth, Reason & Liberty, I received – for a second time – a spam email that has been circulating about the military and the supposed need to “support our troops.” It reads like this: You stay … Read more
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Posted by Phil Dickens on 15/04/2009 · Leave a Comment
In the essay Patriotism: Menace to Liberty, Emma Goldman tells us that “Patriotism … is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.” There is considerable weight to the truth of this statement. Those … Read more
