interviews
Psyching Out Evolutionary Psychology
Interview with philosopher of science David J Buller on some of his criticisms of evolutionary psychology.
Interview by JR Minkel
Eyewitness statement on the killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos
Translation of the statement of Nikos R., which describes what happened on the night of December 6 and how the police shot his friend Alexandros Grigoropoulos.
I go to the first year of high school at Psychiko Public High School. I knew Alexandros, or Gregory (the pet name we used for him, from his last name) since 4th grade in elementary school. We used to go to the same school. Until the first year of middle school we didn't keep close company. From the first year of middle school however, until yesterday when they killed him, we were close friends.
Greece riots: Interview with a libertarian syndicalist
An interview by the CNT-F with the International Secretary of the ESE (union of libertarian syndicalists), discussing the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos and the events that have followed.
Interview with Yannis, international secretary of the ESE (Eleftheriaki Sindikalistiki Enosi)
Can you describe the events surrounding the death of Alexis again?
For the last three years the Greek police's strategy in Exârcheia, a district famous for popular struglle and home to many students., young people and libertarians, has been one of provocation.
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
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
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?
Libcom interview with former UPS workers group Uprise! member, 2007
An interview with a former member of revolutionary UPS workers group Uprise! by libcom, based on a libcom questionnaire. Uprise! was active in 2002 and 2003.
Interview with CNT-AIT (France), 2006
Short text with a round-up of the French IWA section, the CNT's (1-200 members), activity. Based on a short interview during the IWA congress of 2006.
Working life, interviews and leaflets in Delhi's call centre cluster, 2006
Detailed report written after three months of work as foreign call centre worker in Delhi and collective political intervention in the area.
The text looks at the composition of foreign workers in Indian call centres and documents interviews with workers from international companies such as HP or Citibank which relocated call centre work to the industrial outskirts of Delhi.
Introduction
Interview with IWW UK members and Freedom, 2006
"Why I'm a wobbly" - Three members of the Industrial Workers of the World, from different political and working backgrounds, explain why they joined the IWW, and how they see their union.
Interview with southern African anarchists, 2006
A detailed and interesting interview between Black Flag magazine and members of the South African Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation covering their organisation, and the situation for workers in South Africa at present.
First, perhaps you could say something about yourself and the organisation you are part of?
Interview with an electronics worker in Romania, 2005
Summary of a chat with a young guy who works for Solectron electronics in Timisoara, Romania, Summer 2004
About the international free trade zones in Romania
There used to be six free trade zones in Romania, where foreign investors were supposed to invest in low tax paradises. Today only one zone remains
http://freezone.arad.ro.
About Solectron
Lessons of MWR - Interview with former McDonalds Workers Resistance member, 2006
libcom.org interviews one of the founder members of the workplace group McDonalds Workers Resistance about the experiences and lessons learned from one of the UK's most important recent attempts at libertarian organisation.
So, who are you?
The proletarian formerly known as Funnywump.
Briefly, what was McDonald’s Workers Resistance?
