interviews

Interview with Movimiento Libertario Cubano (Cuban Libertarian Movement)

During mid-June 2008 the Iberian counter-information collective A Las Barricadas posed several questions to the Movimiento Libertario Cubano (Cuban Libertarian Movement), an affinity group of Cuban anarchists abroad. The complete text of this interview follows.

We’re interviewing the Cuban Libertarian Movement (Movimiento Libertario Cubano – MLC), an organization made up of anarchists in exile in different parts of the world. In these days of apparent change, of transition, as the European and North-American media would have it, it’s of interest to know first hand about what’s happening inside the island.

Talking about the Venezuelan situation: interview with the CRA

An interview with a member of the Venezuelan CRA (Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas) in January 2006.

Talking about the Venezuelan situation

"Possibilities are found in the struggle outside the unions" - Interview with Kämpa tillsammans

Interview with Swedish communist group Kämpa tillsammans about "faceless resistance" and workplace organisation.

M: What is Kämpa tillsammans?
KT: We call ourselves a writing collective, where we have discussions together and a collective signature. What we are occupied with is class struggle theory.

M: What made you start the group?

Anarchism in South Africa - An interview with Michael Schmidt of the ZACF, 2007

The ZACF is one of the most active libertarian formations in the southern part of the African continent. In order to better understand its history, its intervention in southern African society and the fights which it impels and supports, AL interviewed one of its militants, Michael Schmidt.

Anarchism in South Africa
An interview with Michael Schmidt of the ZACF
by Alternative Libertaire

Alternative Libertaire: Could you tell briefly in which conditions/context and how Zabalaza, and then the ZACF, were built?

Interview with a member of libcom.org, 2007

A critical interview by Wayne Foster of John Stevens from the libcom group, about the libcom.org project and the general state of things.

Libcom.org is a constantly expanding online resource that seeks to promote working class self-organisation through publishing news, theoretical texts and historical articles. Site traffic has risen from 25-35,000 visits per month in 2005 to 110-170,000 now and there are now 2,600 active users.

Postal strike: picket line interview

Pickets outside Brighton sorting office

The first national postal strike in 11 years happened on Friday 29th June with a 24-hour stoppage. libcom.org caught up with some pickets on the line in Brighton.

What are the issues behind this strike?

Interview with Rasem Al Bayari, Palestinian trade unionist

Rasem Al Bayari

Being a trade unionist is a very dangerous business in Palestine.

Rasem Al Bayari, Deputy General Secretary of the PGFTU (Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions), an ITUC affiliate, knows that well: following the destruction of a PGFTU building in October 2006 and the firing of two rockets at his home in January, on 6 April Rasem Al Bayari was injured by masked men who attacked him while he was in a car with his family.

Anarchy, precarity, and the revenge of the IWW: An interview with Starbucks union organiser Daniel Gross

Interview with IWW organizer Daniel Gross where he discusses 'solidarity unionism,' the innovative organizing model that has made gains for Starbucks workers where bureaucratic unions have failed.

In this wide-ranging interview with IWW organizer Daniel Gross conducted by the UK-based Now or Never!, Gross discusses the innovative worker-controlled organizing model, known as solidarity unionism, that has made gains for Starbucks workers where the bureaucratic union model has failed.

Organising for resistance - Interview with an AFed activist

Freedom talks to ‘Bob’, a longstanding member of the Anarchist Federation, about UK’s main anarchist-communist group.

The Anarchist Federation is growing in membership and involved in a range of campaigns including Defy ID. Its magazine ‘Organise!’ recently reached its 20th anniversary issue.

Freedom: Why did you join AF?

Projectile: The interview

Freedom newspaper caught up with a member of the collective organising Projectile, the annual anarchist film festival in Newcastle.

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Freedom: You've done two previous festivals, how do you think this one will compare?

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