Category Archives: Anarchism

Greece, Hedges, black blocs, anarchy… Straya!

Posted on February 13, 2012 by @ndy

Update : #Anonymous Takes Down #Greek Police and Government Web Sites as #Athens Erupts (February 13, 2012) | Occupied London/From the Greek Streets and Teacher Dude’s Grill and BBQ provide ongoing coverage and commentary in English. Here’s to the Greeks. … Continue reading →

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I am the cancer! I am the dynamite! I am the table! I am, I said!

Posted on February 9, 2012 by @ndy

LOL. Twitter informs me that some bloke called Chris Hedges has written a rather silly critique of The Black Bloc Anarchists™ called ‘The Cancer of Occupy’. It presents a rather daft (which is to say inaccurate) account of the origins … Continue reading →

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anarchist notes (february 6, 2012)

Posted on February 6, 2012 by @ndy

Gabriel Kuhn has written an interesting review of some of the definitional problems that emerge from Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt’s book Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (AK Press, 2009) in Perspectives 2011 … Continue reading →

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Emma Goldman on The Traffic in Women (1910)

Posted on January 17, 2012 by @ndy

“OUR REFORMERS have suddenly made a great discovery – the white slave traffic. The papers are full of these “unheard-of conditions,” and lawmakers are already planning a new set of laws to check the horror. It is significant that whenever … Continue reading →

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Anarchists are filthy degenerates

Posted on January 9, 2012 by @ndy

This book examines degeneration. It notes that degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists, and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists. These, however, manifest the same mental characteristics, and for the most part the same somatic features, as … Continue reading →

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Elves, pixies and ending civilization

Posted on January 2, 2012 by @ndy

The world becomes a sum of lifeless artifacts; from synthetic food to synthetic organs, the whole man becomes part of the total machinery that he controls and is simultaneously controlled by. He has no plan, no goal for life, except … Continue reading →

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November 11, 1887… November 11, 2011

Posted on November 11, 2011 by @ndy

In Chicago, USA, 124 years ago today (November 11, 1887), four men–George Engel, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and August Spies–were hanged for a crime they didn’t commit. On the previous day, International Carpenters’ Union leader Louis Lingg committed suicide rather … Continue reading →

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Anarchy rules OK Chomsky tells Australia

Posted on November 9, 2011 by @ndy

So much for apathy… Anarchy rules OK Chomsky tells Australia, AAP, November 3, 2011. (And for those with a slightly longer historical perspective, see : Harold Barclay, People Without Government: An Anthropology Of Anarchy, Kahn & Averill, 1990.) Uncle Noam … Continue reading →

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But here steps in Satan… #occupymelb

Posted on October 24, 2011 by @ndy

But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in … Continue reading →

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ASIO, fascism and anti-fascism (cont.)

Posted on October 18, 2011 by @ndy

“I find it funny; when our grandfathers fought the Nazis, they were heroes. When we fight the Nazis, they call us hooligans and rioters.” Last week, ASIO tabled its Annual Report in Parliament. Inter alia, it included some remarks on … Continue reading →

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