The Commoner #13: An Energy Crisis (Among Others) Is In The Air
Issue 13 of The Commoner Magazine
Wildcat strike at Teesside power plant continues despite police repression
Submitted by R Totale on Jun 5 2019 18:30
Workers go on strike due to unsafe working conditions. The State responds with a heavy police presence finally sending in the riot cops. This article is compiled from reports first published by the Anarchist Communist Group and Freedom News.
The Yellow Vest Movement in France: Between “Ecological” Neoliberalism and “Apolitical” Movements
Submitted by R Totale on Nov 28 2018 19:44
An article from Crimethinc examining the Yellow Vests movement in France. "The past weeks have seen a massive confrontational movement arise in France opposing President Emmanuel Macron’s “ecological” tax increase on gas. This movement combines many contradictory elements..."
Midnight Notes vol 02 #01 (1980) – The Work/Energy Crisis and the Apocalypse
3rd issue of the autonomist journal Midnight Notes
Midnight Notes vol 01 #02 – No Future Notes: the Work/Energy Crisis & The Anti-Nuclear Movement
Second issue of the autonomist Midnight Notes journal.
Dirty energy resistance roundup: court cases, blockades and police aggression
Submitted by Rob Ray on May 10 2017 11:48
As Reclaim the Power and Earth First! activists are ordered to pay £10,000 compensation to coal firm Miller Argent following their blockade against its Ffos-y-fran opencast coal mine last month, direct actions are happening across Britain to head off fracking firms.
Break the silence on Azerbaijan oil workers' deaths
Submitted by Gabriel Levy on Aug 4 2016 08:27
In Azerbaijan, oil workers and their families are demanding answers about offshore safety standards, but the authorities have stayed silent for nine months about the causes of a disaster that killed 31 people
Against the conceptual dumbing down of the 2016 “movement” in France - Mouvement Communiste/Kolektivně proti Kapitălu
This is a leaflet criticising the wildly inflated claims made about the recent "movement" against the new Labour Law in France and the accompanying degradation of political language. Also included PDFs of original french leaflet and English version.
What Problems in Bolivarian Venezuela? What Tumeremo Massacre?
Submitted by Crossly on Apr 1 2016 22:17
While the left press continues to praise the "Bolivarian Revolution," it has brought the country to the edge of a humanitarian disaster. Here are just a few of the problems, and not even the major ones. And then there's the Tumeremo massacre...
The nuclearization of the world - Jaime Semprun
In this Swiftian “nuclearist manifesto” first published in France in 1980, the author uses “laughable sophistry” and “black humor” “disguised as apologetics” in the “spurious defense” of a “program” to save the State and the status quo by “nuclearizing” the world, ridiculing “emotional” opposition to nuclear power, exposing the widespread “mistrust” of “specialists” as a “revolt of the ignorant”, calling attention to the many (non-economic) advantages of nuclearization, and concluding with a proposal to merge the police and the trade unions for the “self-management” of the security and social control functions that will be indispensable in a nuclearized world.
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