social movements
The APPO two years on: Where now for Oaxaca's social movement?
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)
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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.
Notes for a discussion on the regeneration of the American labor movement - Dolgoff, 1970s
Sam Dolgoff's notes, analysis and suggestions for re-building a fighting working class movement in the US in the 1970s. Extracted from a larger text, The American labour movement: a new beginning.
Anarchist communism in Britain, 1870-1991
The AF outlines the history of anarchist communism in the UK from the Socialist League in the 1800s through the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation up to the demise of the groups of the 1970s and 80s.
1940-1945: The Zazous
An account of the French anti-Nazi cultural youth movement who opposed the Vichy regime in occupied France. Influenced by jazz and swing they met in basement clubs and scuffled with fascists on the streets.
French youth against the Nazis
Anarchism in Argentina, 1897-1950
A short article with some information about anarchism in Argentina at its height in the early 20th century
ANARCHISM IN ARGENTINA
Political corruption in Latin America made anarchism appealing. Anarchist ideas were brought to Argentina by immigrants from Europe. Of the anarchist movements in Latin America, Argentina developed the most powerful. Being the most industrialized and urbanized country, Argentina's anarchist movement remained a predominantly workers' movement.
1993-1996: The Dublin fight against water charges
A short history of the successful direct action campaign of non-payment which prevented the imposition of charges for water in Dublin, Ireland.
Winning the water war
1986-1996: Anarchism in Turkey
A brief history of the still-young anarchist movement in Turkey.
The anarchist movement came to the political scene of Turkey not very many years ago. The publication of Kara a monthly magazine, was the starting point of anarchism in Turkey in 1986. Before the publication of this monthly magazine, there had not been any anarchist periodical or any anarchist circle which attempted to express itself.
1970-1978: The US prisoners' movement
Howard Zinn's history of the movement of US prisoners and supporters on the outside against poor conditions and ill-treatment.
1916-1932: The fight for freedom of speech on Glasgow Green
The history of the successful struggle to restore freedom of speech and assembly in one of Britain's oldest parks after it was banned in 1922.
Glasgow Green lies in the centre of the City, it is the oldest of Glasgow’s parks. Its origin lies in the Common Lands of the Burgh. Since the 1100s the area of the Green has been used for all manner of purposes from peat cutting, pasturing, slaughtering cattle, executions, walking, talking and playing.
1903-1981: Anarchism in Poland
An account of anarchist ideas and practice in Poland through the 20th century.
An anarchist movement of Narodnik (Russian anti-capitalist democratic activists of the late 19th century) and anarchist ideas from Russia and Western Europe came into existence at the turn of the 20th century.
1890-1924: Anarchism in Hungary
A history of the anarchist movement, and key anarchists in Hungary up until the aftermath of the 1918 Revolution.
In reaction to the pedestrian Hungarian Social-Democratic Party, founded in 1890, which constantly appealed to the bourgeoisie, often forming alliances with its progressive elements, emerged a far more radical anarchist current. Count Ervin Batthany became friends with Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin whilst in London.
1872-1995: Anarchism in Chile
Article by Chilean anarchists which details the history of the anarchist and workers' movements over the previous 130 years.
We begin in 1872, when the Chilean Section of the International Working Men's Association was established in Valparaiso, a major coastal city. Tragically, this was also the year of the anarchists' expulsion from the International, and the section was not destined to last for long.
1868-2000: Anarchism in Japan
A history of the once-influential anarchist movement in the Japanese Islands in the 19th and 20th centuries.
1868-1936: Anarchism in Spain
A history of the anarchist and workers movements in Spain from its origins in the late 19th century up to the start of the Civil War.
The Spanish branch of the International Workingmen's Association (with Marx, Engels and the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin amongst the founders) was numerically the most substantial section of the International, with 50,000 members. It trod the paths of Bakuninism laid down by the Italian delegate Fanelli.
1839-1846: The Anti-Renter movement
Howard Zinn's short history of the Anti-Renter movement against the patroonship system, created in the 1660s when the Dutch ruled New York.
