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AFAQ is now at release 13.1. So What’s New at the FAQ?
Mostly, it is the revision of the first three sub-sections, plus introduction, of section I. This is the first of three revisions, with sections I.4 to I.6 next, followed by I.7 and I.8. This revision took longer than I thought, mostly due to the new sub-sections and the work they required.
Over the June Bank Holiday weekend dozens of people traveled from all over Ireland to Erris to join locals in ongoing resistance to Shell’s project of imposing an experimental gas pipeline on the local community. I travelled down on the Dublin bus, an early 8.15 start complete with monitoring secret police car, for the 5+ hour journey right across the island to Erris at the western tip.
Well, Peter Gibson has written another surreal letter to Freedom on Kropotkin. I had to reply, as I hate to see such a misrepresentation of mutual aid go unanswered. And on that note, AK Press UK are looking into printing costs for my essay on Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid, which must be a good sign! And if there is a good year to produce an in depth evaluation of Kropotkin’s ideas this would be it! What with Darwin and all that…
I resumed transferring articles from my old web site to this one today and have just moved over five articles I wrote on different aspects of imperialism from 1992 to 2001. As usual its a little scary to be reading stuff from that far back, in particular when it carries a title like The return of the "white man’s civilising mission"!
Anyone following the blog will be aware of the way I’ve been reporting on resistance in Ireland to the capitalist crisis.
Anyone who attended one of my North American talks or who has followed my articles will have heard me mention the ‘Grassroots Gathering’ on more than one occasion. This is/was a network of conferences held in Ireland from 2001 which served to bring everyone with libertarian politics together for the weekend and out of which a number of initiatives flowed.
Or what has Proudhon done for us? And, again, apologies to Monty Python…
Last weekend I was fortunate enough to be asked to give a talk at "Sparrows’ Nest", Nottingham’s Anarchist Library & Archive. I was speaking on "Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid today", based on my essay Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid: An Introduction and Evaluation (hopefully hear in June whether, hopefully when, AK will publish it).
In my blog post for May Day, as well as linking to numerous labour and protest songs, I mentioned (in what I termed propertarian stupidity of the day) that a Cato propertarian had effectively called for a restriction in the franchise to secure "capitalist democracy". While reactionary does not do the propertarians justice, it is rare for them to be so open about it. Needless to say, this slip has been much discussed.
Today is International Workers Day, a day of for workers to show their international solidarity. For anarchists, it is a day of special meaning due to the role the Chicago Anarchists played in its creation. A day to protest, to fight, to hope and to dream! And to mark it, I’ve gathered a collection of great protest and labour songs to listen to and watch (all from Youtube).