Blogs

It may seem quite modest to us, but some historical events have taken place in the "socialist paradise" of Cuba, demonstrating positive moves towards the ressucitation of independent, base-level social and workers' movements. Having hosted a long weekend of discussions and workshops, companeros in Havana are expected to open a library in the next couple of days - and they need your help!

Summaries and links to news reports of workers' struggles around China in the first half of March up to the 15th.

Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around Asia (excluding China) in the first half of March up to the 15th.

Tom Jennings finds much of interest, as well as inevitable limitations, in two American novels exploring positive worldviews among the impoverished

Tom Jennings is grateful for this comprehensive documentation of its author’s efforts to keep Jack Common’s legacy alive

Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around Asia (excluding mainland China and Hong Kong) in February from the 11th to the 28th.

Summaries and links to news reports of workers' struggles around China (now including Hong Kong) from the 10th to 28th of February.

A contribution to the debate about recent events in the SWP, aiming to offer some advice and encouragement to members and ex-members feeling disillusioned by the ongoing internal conflict. By Billy P., a libertarian communist and former SWP member.

The first meeting of the Manchester Class Struggle Forum takes place on Wednesday the 24th of February.

I can't claim to have known him but I did visit Colin shortly after Talking Anarchy - a book entirely made up of a fascinating exchange between him and David Goodway - was brought out. I suspect mine was one of the last published interviews he gave as he was already getting very frail by then.

Will neuroscientists join psychiatrists, psychologists and anthropologists in condemning the use of their labour in the service of war?

Summaries and links to news reports of workers' struggles around China (now including Hong Kong) up to the 10th of February.

Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around Asia (excluding mainland China and Hong Kong) in February up to the 10th.

One of the recurring themes of evangelical Christianity is that atheism means people have no reason to look after each other, supporting the allegation that it led the deaths of millions during the 20th century. Disregarding for a moment the reality that wars are caused by elite power conflicts and generally have little to do with religious belief or a lack thereof, I thought I'd check out who led some of the more famous wars and genocides in history...

Tom Jennings is relieved that this film avoids lazy liberal moralising in exploring the mundane traumas of courage under fire.

Last Saturday saw the second Right to Work conference take place in Manchester City Centre. Held across two venues; the Methodist Central Hall on Oldham street and the historic Mechanics Institute, it was billed by its organisers as “a conference of resistance and solidarity” in the face of the economic crisis.

I'm sad to announce that John Rety, ex editor of Freedom and poetry editor for the Morning Star, died last night after a heart attack.

A lengthy critique of the SWP's attempt to rewrite the history of the resistance to Italian fascism in the early 1920s as well as the revolutionary Red Years after World War I. An important, if not well known, bit of anarchist history.

Original here: http://anarchism.pageabode.com/anarcho/the-irresistible-correctness-of-anarchism

Summaries and links to news reports of workers' struggles around China (now including Hong Kong) in the last half of January.

Summary and links to news stories of workers' struggles around Asia (excluding mainland China and Hong Kong) in the last half of January.