{"id":28847,"date":"2012-02-06T02:52:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T16:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=28847"},"modified":"2012-02-06T02:58:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T16:58:08","slug":"anarchist-notes-february-6-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=28847","title":{"rendered":"anarchist notes (february 6, 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabriel Kuhn has written an interesting review<\/a> of some of the definitional problems that emerge from Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt\u2019s book Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism<\/em> (AK Press, 2009) in Perspectives 2011<\/em> (Institute for Anarchist Studies).<\/p>\n

Also of interest is the new publishing project LBC Books<\/a>. Among their first few titles is Occupy Everything<\/em> — “a book where anarchists, in their own words, express how and why they engaged in Occupy, what methods they used, and evaluates the success of Occupy on anarchist terms”. (See also<\/em> : AK Press<\/a>, Ardent Press<\/a>, Autonomedia<\/a>, Black & Red Books<\/a>, Christie Books<\/a>, CrimethInc<\/a>, Eberhadt Press<\/a>, Freedom Press<\/a> and PM Press<\/a>. Oh and Digital Elephant<\/a>…).<\/p>\n

disaccords<\/a> is a new blog documenting political upset, social turmoil and lulz in Australia. “By choosing to report an incident here, we make no claims as to the (political) motivations of any actors. We just want to amplify the news of incidents that shatter, however briefly, the myth of consensus and social peace, and show that various forms of resistance are possible – are present – here.”<\/p>\n

*Another, forthcoming (anarchist, group) blog is titled Anarchist Perspective — more on that later.<\/p>\n

In a few weeks (Saturday, February 25), a new, local anarchist publication called Sedition<\/em> will be launched<\/a>. Sedition<\/em> is a joint by Jura<\/a> (Sydney), the Melbourne Anarchist Club (Melbourne) and Organise!<\/a> (Adelaide).<\/p>\n

In March (10\/11\/12), an anarchist gathering known as Camp Anarchy<\/a> will be taking place @ Yarra Junction. So too Such is Life<\/a> (9\/10\/11), “a DIY punk festival organised on a not-for-profit basis. It first took place in 2004 and is the only festival of its kind happening in Australia.” This year it’s taking place @ Goongerah.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Egypt (Egyptian anarchists seek self-governed society<\/a>, The Daily News<\/em>, January 20, 2012):<\/p>\n

Horizontal authority<\/p>\n

Instead of vertical authority, anarchists call for horizontal cooperatives organized \u201cby the people, for the people\u201d. Supporting multi-independent syndicates is one of their goals. They support the idea of workers taking over factories and companies which will be self-managed by elected workers committees.<\/p>\n

Abdullah gave the example of the Ultras, Egypt\u2019s organized football fans. These groups are horizontal networking movements with grassroots support. They are leaderless and have joined the revolutionaries in the common fight against police brutality, and so they share common ground with anarchists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The ultras are also being slaughtered by the Egyptian state:<\/p>\n

Egyptian football protests: death toll reaches 11<\/a>
\nTen protesters and one security officer killed in Cairo and Suez in aftermath of deadly football violence
\nDavid Batty and agencies
\nguardian.co.uk
\nFebruary 4, 2012<\/p>\n

At least 11 people have been killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces amid ongoing fallout from the 74 deaths at a football match in Port Said earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Five people were killed when hundreds of demonstrators in Cairo clashed with police near the interior ministry on Saturday morning. The protesters are demanding an end to military rule and retribution for those killed in the riots after Wednesday’s match…<\/p>\n

There have been accusations that plainclothes officers took part in the riot. Some have alleged that riot police intentionally allowed the violence in Port Said to happen to retaliate against fans of the visiting team Al Ahly, known as ultras, who played a key role in clashes with security forces during the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also<\/em> : Whose Egypt?<\/a>, Adam Shatz, London Review of Books<\/em>, Vol.34, No.1, January 5, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gabriel Kuhn has written an interesting review of some of the definitional problems that emerge from Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt\u2019s book Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (AK Press, 2009) in Perspectives 2011 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1281],"class_list":["post-28847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anarchism","tag-anarchist-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-7vh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28847"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28873,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28847\/revisions\/28873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}