social movements

The APPO two years on: Where now for Oaxaca's social movement?

"They will only see us on our knees when in front of the graves of our dead we can tell them...'We won.'"

Two years later what is left now in Oaxaca? Has the APPO been reduced to a memorial mechanism to commemorate its fallen? Is it accurate, as URO keeps insisting with epileptic vigor, that, "nothing is happening" here? Or are we seeing a movement in chrysalis, reconsolidating only to reemerge just as vibrant, but even smarter, than before?

This fall in Oaxaca marks a season of commemorations. Already marches for fallen APPO members Jose Jimenez Colmenares and Lorenzo San Pablo Cervantes have woven their ways through the streets of the city, pausing at the spots they were murdered in 2006, holding ceremonies at the Cathedral. Twenty-four more such processions await Oaxaca in the coming months.

Commentary on the Sussex not for Sale campaign at Sussex University

Critical article on the Sussex Not For Sale campaign at the University of Sussex, written by an active member of the campaign.

Higher education is going through significant transformations on an international, or at least European, level. The UK is not immune to these changes. Whilst there have been various small protests in places around the country to resist these changes, no major local campaign has existed as of yet. Sussex not 4 Sale was born out of this context.

Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa today

A major and widely influential new theoretical statement on the rising tide of anti-state politics by a major radical African intellectual.

by Michael Neocosmos

Abstract

The Chinese anarchist movement

A history of the Chinese anarchist movement in France, Japan and China itself from 1900 up to the formation of the Chinese Communist Party.

R. Scalapino and G.T. Yu.

Berkeley: Center for Chinese Studies, 1961

Contents
Editor's Note
Preface
The Origins of Chinese Anarchism
Anarchism and the Nationalist Revolution
The Work-Study Movement
The Anarchist Conflict With Marxism
Editor's Footnote

Editor’s Note

"Ulach smah" ("No forgiveness") - the Algeria insurrection, 2001

A leaflet distributed in France about the Algerian struggles of 2001. Originating in the Kabylie region, east of Algiers - home to some 5 million Berbers - the revolt spread across the country. Over 120 people are reported to have died in clashes which continued for much of 2001.

From the http://www.endangeredphoenix.com/ website

Translated by: B.M.Combustion; (translating this doesn’t imply agreement with the illusions in the article about democratic rights)

===========

Algeria 2001

The following text was translated in July 2001:

1880-1945: Yiddish-speaking libertarians in France

Short article tracing the development of the Jewish Yiddish language anarchist and syndicalists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in France.

In the pletzl (Marais) and in Montmartre in Paris (pictured, above), Jewish anarchists had a real influence. In 1907, police reports indicated the presence of about 450 anarcho-communists, an enormous figure if one realises that the immigrant Jewish population living in Paris at the time was about 20,000.

The APPO two years on: Where now for Oaxaca's social movement?

Commentary on the Sussex not for Sale campaign at Sussex University

Civil society, citizenship and the politics of the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa today

The Chinese anarchist movement

"Ulach smah" ("No forgiveness") - the Algeria insurrection, 2001

1880-1945: Yiddish-speaking libertarians in France

Notes for a discussion on the regeneration of the American labor movement - Dolgoff, 1970s

Anarchist communism in Britain, 1870-1991

1940-1945: The Zazous

Anarchism in Argentina, 1897-1950

news

articles

drop down