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Why is online conflict so much more disruptive of organising?
I’ve written a good deal about both the positive organisational opportunities created by social networking. Here I’m going to look at one of the strong negatives, the intensification and deepening of...
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After the election of Syriza in Greece - Power is not in Parliament
Today, across Europe, the left is excited by the likelihood of Syriza topping the polls in the Greek election. Some on the left have gone so far as to suggest the election itself will mark the end of...
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Rojava - Revolution Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Revolutions are seldom made in favourable circumstances. Russia 1917 emerged from the mass slaughter of WWI and the disintegration of an economy under the pressure of the supply demands of that war....
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On the Greek online funding campaign - lets not neo-liberalise solidarity
The ideas of each age tend to become that of the ruling ideology and we are seeing an extraordinary example of that at the moment. As a response the ECB/IMF attack on Greek democracy an online fund it...
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Syriza confirm electoralist road is wrong road to another world
It now appears that the Syriza's insistence that the severe nature of what the Trokia demanded meant that the Greek people had to directly decide through referendum on whether or not to comply has been...
View ArticleIMF back Syriza demand for debt write off while EU leaders wish for soft coup
Last night (2 July) the IMF in effect put its weight behind the Syriza government and the call for a No vote (OXI) in the referendum. An image of Chile's socialist president Allende, murdered in the...
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Syriza are not the limits of our dreams
Austerity was never going to be defeated by the vote. We don't live in an economic democracy, we live in an economic dictatorship where only those with vast wealth determine its course. Parliament...
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ISIS, ideology and the Rojava Revolution - why the YPG/J fight
17th May and ISIS capture Ramadi and with it another huge stock of modern US weaponry. Something like 6000 US trained Iraqi soldiers have fled the city without putting up much of a fight. From all...
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The political policing of the AAA - if voting changed anything..
Sometimes the old ones are the gold ones. The attempt by the Irish state to damage the electoral chances of the Anti Austerity Alliance by hitting them where it matters - in the pocket - reminds us of...
View ArticleReview: Revolution by Russell Brand
One of the more bizarre developments of the last year has been Russell Brand or, more correctly, the response that he has provoked across the political spectrum. Watching commentator after commentator...
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Why elections fail to bring about real change - the 10 filters that make them...
Why can’t the 99% simply vote in a government that acts in their interest and not that of the 1%At a simple level parliamentary elections sound like the ideal way for the mass of the ‘have nots’ to...
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Rojava revolution - A look at Co-operatives & assemblies - video with...
As they have driven ISIS back in northern Syria / Rojava the Kurdish YPG and their allies in the SDF have won increasing visibility in western media. While such reports often mention the key role in...
View ArticleThe Bolshevik Myth Reloaded
This is a write up of the talk I gave at the 2016 London Anarchist bookfair. I covered most of what I planned in my notes although some of it was summarised more than indicated here. It covers the...
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Absolute boy - The Youth Revolt that led Corbyn to a victory of sorts
Corbyn’s strong showing in the June 2017 UK elections has given a big morale boost to the left. A considerable youth vote, self-mobilising in larger part as a reaction to the ‘me and mine’ selfish...
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Review: Romancing the revolution
This is a very interesting and useful work. It takes you back to when Lenin and Trotsky were unknown and how this change as the British left tried to understand developments in the Russian Revolution....
View ArticleReview: Anarchists Never Surrender by Victor Serge
This book is a collection of new translations of articles by Victor Serge (1890-1947). Born of Russian anti-Tsarist exiles in Belgium, Serge is of note for his odyssey from anarchism to Bolshevism,...
View ArticleReview: The Next Revolution by Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was for four decades a leading anarchist thinker and writer. His many articles and books – Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Toward an Ecological Society, The Ecology of Freedom and...
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Repeal and the online battle - when become a billionaire isn't an option
Over the last few days the mainstream media in Ireland has finally woken up to the way money from far right US evangelicals is being used to buy the No vote in the referendum campaign. Here we show you...
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Identity Politics is a Four way Conflict
Discussions about Identity Politics (IdPol) absorbs a huge amount of energy across the political spectrum. Discussion on the left however is often complicated and made overly hostile because they take...
View ArticleRevew: Rupturing the Dialectic by Harry Cleaver
There is nothing worse than seeing a film labelled “inspired by true events” (or a TV series “inspired” by the stories of Philip K. Dick) for you know that any relation to actual events is purely...
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