Organizing the Workplace
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – External Education Committee, April 1st 2044.
69th Event in the Organized Anarchism Discussion Series
From Black Rose Anarchist Federation by Black Rose / Rosa Negra – External Education Committee, April 1st 2044.
69th Event in the Organized Anarchism Discussion Series
from Anarchists Communists Meanjin By Iswed Tiggjan
Developing an Anarchist Response to the Covid Crisis
A common criticism levelled at the modern anarchist movement is its lack of relevance to the lives of the working class. As an anarchist this is a criticism I largely agree with. Although I believe that anarchism as a social theory and revolutionary strategy has much to offer our class, overall anarchist ideas have little presence amongst the majority of workers today. Many opponents of anarchism tend to write this off as a fundamental defect of anarchism, proof that anarchism is a petit-bourgeois ideology, and that throughout history the working class has inherently known to reject it.
When talking to your local anarcho-syndicalist on why someone should join their union, they usually give a long list of all the things taken for granted today that are the result of organized labor fights in the past, with the weekend being the most enthusiastically mentioned...
This is one in a series of interviews with people involved in the Notara 26 squat in Exarcheia, Athens. The struggle for the free spaces here is made up of people with very different backgrounds, life stories and ideas. We aim to record people’s own words without imposing our views – though of course we can’t escape our own perspectives, or the limits of translation.