Monthly Archives: April 2011
Beyond the Granite
Ian Mitchell’s ‘Aberdeen Beyond the Granite’ was published last year. Mitchell is a historian and an award winning mountaineering writer. He also played a prominent role in Aberdeen’s anarchist and libertarian movement in the 1960s and 1970s. The novelist John Aberdein calls Mitchell’s description of Aberdeen a ‘warm provocative dander through the core of...
Thursday Day of Action Against Benefit Cuts
From 4 April, the Con-Dem government has started a three year project to reassess all 1.5 million incapacity benefit claimants. The brutal Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is feared by many disabled people. About one and a quarter million people, now on incapacity benefit, will lose £25 a week. Because of sanctions and compulsion, many...
Counterpower, participatory democracy, revolutionary defence
Here is a link to a recent article by Lucien van der Walt of South Africa’s Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF). The article responds to criticisms of the broad anarchist tradition in International Socialism, an International Socialist Tendency (IST) journal. In it Lucien discusses topics such as the use of sources, defending revolutions and...
Revolutionary Songs for Reclaim the Night
Coming up this Wednesday (6th April), the Anarchafeminists and friends are organising this gig to raise funds for this year’s Reclaim the Night. Event details on the Indymedia page. It features the storming sounds of Gallo Rojo and Jeanne Dark, who warmed things up at our recent film festival. They have our equivalent of...
Trade unions – are they fit for purpose?
The March 2011 issue of The Commune contains a report from Allan Armstrong on the third Global Commune event, jointly hosted with the Republican Communist Network (RSN) in January. Members of the Anarchist Federation took part in what was an excellent event and look forward to more discussion with members of the Commune and...
Princess Bridezilla vs. Mecha-anarchists
Everyone’s talking about anarchists protesting the royal wedding.(*) The latest plot from the Met Polis is for Pre-emptive arrests of anarchists. That sounds familiar. Anti-monarchy protesters were celebrating recently after winning £80,500 in damages from the Metropolitan Police, over their unlawful arrest and false imprisonment on June 4th 2002 – the Queens Golden Jubilee....
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