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A Peoples’ History of Auckland- From the general strike to the ADB summit. 1912-1995
IWW, 1912

It seems clear to me that the women's movement in Boston hasn't really been doing much this year as compared to last year. I think that the reason behind this is that people have tried very hard not to think about what they were doing, and have therefore become encased in dogma. I also feel that people have settled for reforming their lives instead of changing them.

“Anti-Capitalism As Ideology...And As Movement?” is an analysis of the anti-summit movement by the British communist group Aufheben which was first published in the tenth annual issue of their journal in September 2001.

Black Flag #208, June 1996, covered a land squat in London done by "The Land is Ours". This article is the critical evaluation of this by someone who participated.

THE LAND IS THEIRS
or, pace George Monbiot, "This Land Is my Uncle's"

A CLASS ACT - Anarchism, Class and who we really want to talk to.

This article, from Black Flag #208 in mid-1995, was one of a series looking at the impact of the Criminal Justice Act, which aimed to criminalise the activities of hunt saboteurs, amongst others.

Bourgeois attempts of channeling proletarian struggles on an international scale and

Invariant struggle for the proletarian rupture

AGAINST SUMMITS AND ANTI-SUMMITS

Here is a first translation as a draft and partial in version of our text already published in Spanish and in French. Use it, criticize it...

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Summits, counter-summits and proletarian struggle

In our central reviews in French and Spanish we recently published an article entitled "Against the summits and anti-summits; bourgeois attempts to channel of the proletarian struggles on a world scale and the invariant struggle for the proletarian rupture" (1) in which we denounced the large meetings of the international capitalist organisations as well as the official protestations of the bourge

What is objective? The weather.
What is consciousness? Rain on your face.
What is subjective? "My hairstyle is a mess and my make-up is ruined."
Objective is what happens.
Consciousness is presence.
Subjective is complaint.
Objectivity is appropriation.
Consciousness is absorbency.
Subjectivity is defeat.
Object is ground.
Consciousness is mask.
Subject is projectile.

1.The likely beneficiaries of the actions in Prague are the Ecology Movement, in its broadest sense, which means the careers of individuals and groups/parties who represent all sorts of ecological politics. (I have used the term "Ecology Movement" in order to highlight where this movement originates, which is also a pointer to where it will end up).

SOME NOTES CONCERNING FUTURE PROLETARIAN INSURGENCY

Part one: The Dynamics of "Protest" Seen in the Recent Petrol Blockades in Britain

The Necessity and Impossibility of Anti-Activism

For my part, I do not believe there is 'one solution' to the social problems, but a thousand different and changing solutions in the same way as social existence is different and varied in time and space.

--Errico Malatesta, 1924

Revolution is the communising of society, but this process is more than just the sum of direct actions.

Pondering Information and Communication in Contemporary Anti-Capitalist Movements

Steve Wright

Since the occupation movement of May '68, we have seen a whole collection of small organisations which claim to follow Trotskyism, Maoism or anarchism, developing to the left of the Communist Party and the C.G.T [1].

Preface: From anti-'globalization' to opposing the war

As the reply-proper (below) to the Animal reply makes clear, the article 'Death of a Paper Tiger' was not written by Aufheben. 'Intakes' articles in Aufheben are 'guest' articles and so do not go through the normal editorial process (of editing, criticism etc.) but nevertheless are considered useful contributions.

Demanding Critical Thought,
or Still Born Aufheben

This is a reply to "Intakes: Death of a Paper Tiger... Reflections on Class War" found on the Aufheben website on Feb. 21st 2000, but printed in 1997, Autumn no.6, in their magazine.

Last year, the threat of the Criminal Justice Bill galvanised thousands of people to take various forms of action against the state. It also brought very different oppositional elements together in a common practical relationship, many for the first time. In this issue, we examine the possibilities of these struggles.

[b]Part One: Sign of the Times