Melancholic Troglodytes
Melancholic Troglodytes
UK based council communist influenced proletarian collective that publishes a journal of the same name about class struggle.
Reservation Politics: the Palestinian experience through the historical monocle of Native Americans - Melancholic Troglodytes
An historical examination of the similarities and differences in the situations of the Palestinians and the Native Americans.
"Our historical analogy aimed to demonstrate the failure of the present course of action for the region’s proletariat and suggest an alternative. It is the social and not the military dimension of the struggle that has the potential to transcend capital."
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Syrian-Lebanese dispute and its implications for the class struggle, 1500-2003 - Melacholic Troglodytes
Melancholic Troglodytes' pamphlet covering the history of the Syrian/Lebanese dispute from 1500-2003.
Godfathers of Levant
Syrian-Lebanese dispute and its implications for the class struggle
The Zanj Slaves Rebellion, AD 869-883
A history of the Zanj slave rebellion - East African slaves in Mesopotamia during the 9th century. These events took place around Basra, in modern day Iraq.
Zapping the Zanj: Towards a History of the Zanj Slaves' Rebellion
Revised on: 16 October 2002. This is an ongoing investigation. Credible sources regarding the Zanj are hard to come by. Melancholic Troglodytes would appreciate any assistance from readers.
The Neoliberal Wars - Treason pamphlet
Warfare has significantly changed in the last thirty years. From 1945 until about 1975 most wars were
part of the worldwide movement of decolonisation that saw the formation of dozens of new states in
Africa and Asia. Since then most wars have been civil wars within the decolonised countries, sometimes
A Proletarian critique of the Nation of Islam - Melancholic Troglodytes
This is a proletarian critique of the U.S. based Nation of Islam (NOI). With anything between 20,000 and 100,000 members and capable of engineering massive reactionary mobilizations, the Nation represents a significant counter-revolutionary force. The pamphlet looks at NOI's history and evolution, the way it exploits its membership and its promotion of anti-working class, sexist, homophobic and racist ideology. Melancholic Troglodytes hope this text will encourage further analysis of NOI, religion and race from a class perspective.
Hydro-jihad: water conflict and the class struggle - Melancholic Troglodytes
The Iraq War underlined the significance of three main commodities in the Middle East, namely: labour power, oil and water. This text investigates the role of water in relation to the class struggle.
"To the man who refuses his surplus water, Allah will say: 'Today, I refuse thee my favor, just as thou refused the surplus of something that thou hadst not made thyself."
The Afghan Crisis and the Transformation of Bourgeois Law - Melancholic Troglodytes
The Afghan Crisis and the Transformation of Bourgeois Law
"For the abolition of moral fetishes can only be accomplished in practice simultaneously with the abolition of commodity fetishism and legal fetishism." Pashukanis, Marxism & Law, 1929
2001: Pakistan - The Mummification of the Class Struggle - Melancholic Troglodytes
Pakistan: The Mummification of the Class Struggle?
"The highest heroic effort of which old society is till capable of is national war; and this is now proved to be a mere humbug, intended to deter the struggle of classes, and to be thrown aside as soon as that class s
Neither Species 8472 Nor The Borg: No War but the Class War - Melancholic Troglodytes
Neither Species 8472 Nor The Borg:
No War But The Class War
'They use flags first to shrink-wrap peoples' minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial
1920-2001: Afghanistan - A Potted Social History - Melancholic Troglodytes
AFGHANISTAN:
A Potted Social History
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If the history of Afghanistan is about any one thing, it is about playing hard to get when capital turns on the charm: a mainly small-holding peasantry and artisanal population that spurns the joys of wage-slavery; saturated carpet
