Private versus ‘Socialised’ healthcare
28 August 2009Posted by AFed
Article written in context of health reforms in the USA, of relevance to the debate about private vs. public healthcare (August 2009). Private versus ‘Socialised’…
Meet the Green Boss – climate camp leaflet, discussion, report & paper
26 August 2009Posted by AFed
An AF leaflet for the Camp for Climate Action 2009 events talking place in London and elsewhere can now be downloaded or viewed online. We also introduced a discussion at the London camp on the Friday, Making our workplaces Red, Black and Green. Read on for details, a report summarising the discussions had & a new perspective paper by AF members who participated in the camp.
Meet the Green Boss – climate camp leaflet, discussion, report & paper
26 August 2009Posted by AFed
An AF leaflet for the Camp for Climate Action 2009 events talking place in London and elsewhere can now be downloaded or viewed online. We also introduced a discussion at the London camp on the Friday, Making our workplaces Red, Black and Green. Read on for details, a report summarising the discussions had & a new perspective paper by AF members who participated in the camp.
Private versus ‘Socialised’ healthcare
19 August 2009Posted by AFed
Anarchist Federation – neither left nor right
17 August 2009Posted by AFed
Anarchist Communism, neither left nor right but social revolution
Capitalism’s temporary mask of invincibility has once again fallen. Ten years of relative growth and alleged prosperity has left us to where capitalists always lead us, crisis, unemployment, environmental disaster and war. The illusion of sustainability and the absence of recession in the west until now has been bought by the ruthless exploitation of the working class in China, India and other parts of the ‘developing’ world. The historic question has never gone away, though at the moment becomes clearer by the day. Capitalist barbarism or its overthrow, war or revolution.
Interview with the newspaper El Libertario (Venezuela)
27 June 2009Posted by AFed
* From Madrid the anarchist group Star, linked to the Iberian Federation of Anarchists Youths (Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Anarquistas-FIJA-), has raised questions whose answers will let us know today and in detail what is doing and saying the known Venezuelan anarchist spokesman.
The situation in Iran
25 June 2009Posted by AFed
Since the Iranian election on June 12th hundreds of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to protest the results of the election, widely believed to have been rigged to ensure victory for the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And there is good reason to believe that the hard-line and reactionary President was not the victor – not only were there reports of missing ballots and coerced voting on behalf of the Ahmadinejad campaign but Iran also has a strong history of rigged elections. It’s all part and parcel of the single-Party dictatorship in Iran: any show of democracy is a façade.
The Struggle Against Fascism Begins With The Struggle Against Labourism or, Hope Not Self-Defeating Liberal Stupidity
25 June 2009Posted by AFed
So, how is it that the recent European elections returned two BNP candidates to “represent” the people of Yorkshire and the North-West? The most obvious explanation is quite simply that no-one wanted to vote for the mainstream parties, and it’s hard to blame them – the efforts of the most dedicated BNP activists pale in comparison to the antics of corrupt MPs like Douglas Hogg or Hazel Blears when it comes to discrediting the BNP’s rivals. As anarchists, we certainly don’t see the widespread “apathy” (contempt would be a better way of putting it) towards the big three parties as a bad thing – a turnout of around 34% means that about 66% of the electorate have seen through the hollow promises of politicians and could potentially be won over to genuinely effective methods of grassroots organising.1 But first we need a real alternative to put forward – otherwise, as we’ve seen, it’s all too easy for disillusioned voters to be persuaded by the “anti-establishment” image of the BNP.
Ford Visteon struggle – new pamphlet & article
19 June 2009Posted by AFed
NEW pamphlet from Past Tense: Report and reflections on the UK Ford-Visteon dispute 2009 – a post-Fordist struggle. Also available in print, published June 2009,…
The European elections and the BNP, an anarchist perspective
18 June 2009Posted by AFed
A few words are necessary in advance. The AF does not have a single perspective on fascism and the way to counter it. We view this as the kind of internal disagreement within libertarian organisations as healthy. There are differences of viewpoint on the nature of fascism, where it comes from, how it comes to power, and what kind of activity should be directed towards it. We published two of these viewpoints in parallel in issue 70 of our magazine Organise!, with one article arguing for militant, direct opposition to fascism and another arguing that fascism is a form of the capitalist state, and the way to counteract state attacks on the working class and ‘undesirable’ sections of it is to build our ability to fight back as a class. Such differences inform the practical activity groups and individual members undertake on a local level.
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