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Back in 1986 Granada did a fantastic 6 part documentary on the Spanish Civil War. Each episode was an hour long and based around news reel footage from the time (much of it shot by anarchist film crews) and interviews with surviving participants. The six episodes are now up on youtube Google video, if you’ve not seen them I highly recommend them.
Thanks to a friend on Facebook it has been brought to my attention that primitivist guru John Zerzan had a go at me on his weekly Eugene, Oregon radio show recently. This is a little strange as Zerzan and his listeners are seperated from me by nine time zones including the entire Atlantic ocean and the entire width of North America but I guess we have history. He’s part of a small but noisy anti fan base I seem to have developed on the west coast of the USA.
I spotted Stephen Ambrose’s biography of Crazy Horse and Custer remaindered at a bargin bookshop in Dublin a few weeks back and picked it up with an armful of other random bargins. Ambrose is famous as the author of Band of Brothers which was serialised into a hit TV show and other second world war histories. So I was curious as to what angle he was likely to take on the American – Lakota Sioux war of the 1860’s and 1870’s
Here is an exclusive extract from the introduction to the Proudhon Anthology I’m working on (and we do need more translators, if you want to contribute!). It is on Proudhon’s theory of exploitation and how Marx, basically, appropriated it …
Also, the translations are progressing. Got a chapter of Confessions of a Revolutionary and it contained a wonderfully witty insult. Made me laugh out loud so I thought I would share:
Of course, it’s not exactly as simple as it first appears. In the wake of the crash the ISDA started chivvying CDS dealers to try and net out their deals. As CDS are fixed term contracts and normally non-tradeable, the common practice for getting out of a CDS deal before the fixed term (usually 5 years) expires is to create a second, opposite contract. The end result is double the notional outstanding, though the deal has been effectively cancelled
A few weeks ago I posted an article on inequality in the UK, using a surreal article in the right-wing Daily Mail. It essentially protrayed those on £50,000 a year as "middle class" or "middle income". In fact, they were talking about people in the top 10%! Since then, I’ve come across a useful TUC source addressing this
Last night I went to the launch of a new history of the Offical IRA and the Workers Party called ‘The Lost Revolution’ by Brian Hanley and Scott Miller. I’ve been wiaiting for a detailed history of the Workers Party to be written for a long time and I knew Scott was working on one. I’ve only read the first couple of chapters so far but from these, what people have been saying about it and the huge crowd that turned up for the launch
Well, I’m back from holiday. Which explains the lack of posts and blogs (but I did manage to get another release of An Anarchist FAQ done). I’ve posted a new article on the economics of anarchy, based on my speech at the Radical Routes conference earlier this year.
Septembe 2003 was the start of the intense period of the bin tax struggle in Dublin, a struggle that was to see 25+ people jailed as the state tried to crush the campaign. I’ve just uploaded the news articles I wrote at the time on the struggle to my archive on this site, this blog summarises these and links to each of the news posts as it is summarised. I also explain the internal context of what is argued to a greater level then could be done at that time.
This is neither a manifesto or a manual. It is a call to rethink the paradigm of change. The purpose of these theses is neither to analyse, argue, persuade or convince, but only to provoke.