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socialisme ou barbarie may june 1949 babeuf was the first example of a militant formulating a coherent socialist doctrine struggling for a plebeian socialist revolution in his view indispensible for the reorganisation of the economy and society as a whole these attempts at the first communist party and doctrine are of great importance to us they allow us to understand how revolutionary thought has developed they moreover offer the opportunity for a concrete analysis of the link between the revolutionary militant and the working class in a given historical period 1 view original post 6 853 more words september 29 2013 uncategorized review of a classic giovanni arrighi s the long twentieth century the commune by dan jakopovich in the long twentieth century money power and the origins of our times 1994 arrighi centres his attention on the examination of systemic capitalist cycles of accumulation their immanent logic the interplay between the emerging and old powers elements of systemic continuity and discontinuity and the factors of hegemonic consolidation view original post 1 807 more words september 19 2013 uncategorized a syndicalism for the 21st century the commune sheila cohen looks at the great unrest and the meaning for syndicalism today it seems unlikely that the centenary of the 1910 14 great unrest will gain much attention in the media if indeed it gets a mention at all but for supporters of workers revolutionary self activity this is an anniversary to remember view original post 1 965 more words september 18 2013 uncategorized a revolution in retreat the commune adam ford reviews the russian revolution in retreat 1920 24 soviet workers and the new communist elite by simon pirani routledge 2008 i cannot be that sort of idealist communist who believes in the new god that they call the state bows before the bureaucracy that is so far from the working people and waits for communism from the hands of pen pushers and officials as though it was the kingdom of heaven excerpt from the resignation letter of a bolshevik party member within what is usually labelled the left your answer to the question when did the russian revolution go wrong is a kind of touchstone each organisation seems to have its own one true answer and giving the wrong response at the wrong meeting can earn you the kind of scorn that the very religious reserve for those whose beliefs differ ever so slightly from theirs cue many view original post 1 992 more words september 17 2013 uncategorized making a killing suicide under capitalism the commune tom denning writes on the social meaning of suicide some years ago when the streets were filled with red flags i saw two comrades die at home clutching a common gas tube few of us cried then and each of us knew that they were crying for themselves for the irreducible substance of our imaginary fears for all the questions the political struggle left unresolved nobody thinks of waving red flags round these silent deaths why because we can t attribute any ideal meaning to them because we can t abstract from the complex and confused personal reasons which caused these deaths 1 lea melandri 1977 can we not after all as erwin stengel put it suicide appears to be the most personal action an individual can take yet social relationships play an important part in its causation and it has a profound social impact while view original post 3 623 more words september 15 2013 anarchism spain syndicalism the spanish revolution in memory of terry liddle a member of the commune who died recently we republish his short summary on the spanish revolution in 1931 the spanish king alfonso xiii having supported the discredited dictator primo de rivera went into exile the second republic was proclaimed articles 26 and 27 of its new constitution placed stringent controls on church property members of religious orders were banned from the ranks of teachers it also allowed divorce gave women the vote and stripped the nobility of its special legal status it established a legal procedure for the nationalisation of public services banks and railways in 1934 catalonia attempted to establish its autonomy with the spanish federation this moved was suppressed and catalonia only became autonomous in 1936 its government was called the generalitat continue reading the spanish revolution december 15 2012 uncategorized government coalition targets working class poor the coalition leaders the government front bench team of david cameron george osborne and danny alexander are probably still laughing at the lack of opposition from labour to their attack in the autumn budget statement on the most disadvantaged stratum of the working class those of working age on state benefits says barry biddulph george osborne defined the rules of the parliamentary game fairness is about being fair to the person who leaves home every morning to go to work and see s their neighbour still asleep living a life on benefits this is classic divide and rule strategy victimize and stigmatize the poor blame the reserve army of workers forced to be ready to provide cheap labour for any kind of job even if one was available continue reading government coalition targets working class poor december 8 2012 december 9 2012 government 8 comments organising for class struggle crisis so what else can we do the commune is hosting a debate on organisation this month roy ratcliffe offers his contribution among the anti capitalist left there has been much debate of what is an appropriate course of action in the present circumstances of developing capitalist crisis a great deal of conflict exists together with considerable impatience discussions and debates among the left are tending to orientate around assisting and initiating class or population wide actions and this via competing forms of organisation such attempts are largely by either invigorating existing ones such as trade unions and political parties eg the labour party in the uk or initiating new ones such as occupy and syriza in greece however some of these initiatives stem from a mistaken view that small groups with the correct orientation and ideas can stimulate significant and sustained actions involving large numbers of people before the vast majority of the population are ready to do so in this case they are bound to fail and of course simply turning out in large numbers to demonstrate or vote will be insufficient to solve this present structural crisis a parallel problem is that promoters of these initiatives generally appear to have insufficient understand of the dynamics and evolution of protest uprisings and revolutions continue reading crisis so what else can we do november 1 2012 november 1 2012 28 comments aci greece organising for class struggle britain to fight austerity we need a united left simon hardy of the anticapitalist initiative says the urgent need for unity on the radical left is something that has been eloquently put forward by dan hind on the al jazeera website asking a very pertinent question as to whether there can be a syriza type organisation in britain hind draws out some of the most important lessons of the greek struggle and poses a challenge to the british left can we break out of the ghetto as well 1 to plot a possible trajectory we have to be clear of the political alignment that has emerged for the left under the conservative party liberal democrat coalition government while ed miliband s labour party might be surging ahead in the polls the possibility of a labour left revival is simply not on the cards the labour party is hollowed out and bureaucratically controlled and all the best intentions and actions of labour left activists will not change that the labour left is reduced to the old argument that there is nothing credible outside the labour party they mockingly point to all the twisted contortions of the far left in britain in the last decade socialist alliance scottish socialist party respect trade union and socialist coalition left list respect renewal etc to forge a new unity and conclude that the labour party is the only show in town continue reading britain to fight austerity we need a united left october 15 2012 november 20 2012 28 comments greece a report on the situation in greece during a recent visit to greece eric chester was able to get some sense of the enormous problems confronting that country greeks are very proud of their past not only the legendary era 2500 years ago the time of the parthenon but more recently when greeks fought the nazi invaders nevertheless along with the national pride is a bitter sense of despair a feeling that there is no way out of the current catastrophe the number of suicides has been increasing rapidly as young greeks try to cope with massive unemployment and the disintegration of the educational system along with clear indications that the crisis will only grow worse walking along the streets of athens i saw people living on the street everywhere children begging sidewalks crumbling and riot cops ready to come down on the next demonstration greece is a poor country perhaps comparable to mexico in economic development furthermore global warming has hit greece with a vengeance temperatures climbed to over 40 degrees every day and the stagnant humid polluted air was oppressive heat wave of this sort can last for weeks continue reading a report on the situation in greece august 1 2012 1 comment anti racism the commune bnp humiliated in dalkeith our comrade in the republican communist network saw the bnp fail to infiltrate an anti rapist demonstration in midlothian nick griffin and 5 others i e his driver and minders turned up outside dalkeith country park after cancelling their planned rally in glasgow earlier that day their stated aim was to support an intended rally against the presence of convicted rapist robert greens in our community it was good that there was little spontaneous support for the bnp despite a lot of media coverage e g in the sun newspaper there was little visible presence from bnp supporters one demonstrator counted 17 i thought there were less but it was hard to tell all were driven in by car the bnp website promised 50 nationalists would turn up and they urged other british nationalists to join them the bnp presence was opposed by the majority of the anti rapist protesters plus about 30 40 local anti fascists who had been alerted via midlothian trades council there were groups from palestinian solidarity unite against fascism current and ex ssp members trade unionists representing unison eis ucatt and ucu the local fe college independent socialists two members of socialist appeal and at least one other labour party member there was no identifiable snp presence but we did receive a message from local snp msp colin beattie supporting midlothian trades council stance saying there was no place for bnp in midlothian and that he would have liked to have been there to show his support but had a previous appointment in the event no councillors msps or our mp were present continue reading bnp humiliated in dalkeith july 30 2012 july 30 2012 bnp demos protests rcn republican communist network scotland the commune 1 comment olympics pcs strikes the commune trade unions serwotka sellout sets seal on olympic exploitation by adam ford as women footballers were getting ready to unofficially kick off the london olympics the public and commercial services pcs union general secretary was preparing to bow to ruling class pressure and call off a strike of workers in the border agency criminal records bureau and the identity and passport service in doing so darling of the fake left mark serwotka was setting the seal on years of collaboration between union officialdom and the london olympics authorities brendan barber tuc sebastian coe olympics and ed sweeney acas tomorrow s aborted strike was originally called as part of a dispute over 8 500 home office jobs the pcs say are at risk as a result of government cuts had the walkout gone ahead it would have caused some disruption to last minute olympics preparations particularly with spectators athletes and others in their entourages still arriving in the country serwotka faced a storm of pressure from the right wing abuse over the strike with the usual papers seizing on the opportunity to bash the supposed arrogance of workers choosing to withdraw their labour at a time when it might have most impact as could be anticipated the media debate weighed heavily on the national pride side of the olympics and against working class consciousness continue reading serwotka sellout sets seal on olympic exploitation july 28 2012 mark serwotka olympics pcs strike the commune trade unions 4 comments posts navigation older posts old site this site has now been mothballed archive to be organised shortly search for search archives archives select month october 2013 september 2013 december 2012 november 2012 october 2012 august 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