Angry Workers of the World (AWW) are a small communist collective based in London, influenced by Italian workerism and a wider array of socialist groups, like the original Solidarity (not to be confused with the Trotskyist Australian Solidarity), the women’s group Feminist Fightback and the German group Wildcat. For the […]
Agustín Guillamóns latest translated work “Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937 in Barcelona” is a brilliant political history of the Stalinist and collaborationist-anarchist counter-revolution in Spain, and the last gasp of the proletarian rank-and-file resistance to it. Originally published in Spanish in 2017, AK Press published the English translation […]
Review of “Workers Inquiry and global class struggle: strategies, tactics and objectives”, Richard Ovetz (ed), Pluto Press, 2020. With even the quickest, most cursory look out of our socially isolated windows, we can see the ways in which the world and the way it’s organised is an almost constant state […]
The Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group explain the significance of the new AUKUS partnership. Reproduced with permission. The AUKUS partnership announced on 16 September is a big step towards war against China. The centrepiece of its first initiative is the announcement by the Australian Government that it will buy eight nuclear […]
On Monday the 20th of September, a small gathering of nominally CFMEU Victoria members escalated into a riot and right-wing attack on the Union offices. Shop stewards and Organisers fought with rank and file members and the anti-vax rent-a-crowd. The CFMEU is nominally the most militant, powerful union in Australia. […]
A critical review of Eyes to the South: French Anarchists and Algeria, by David Porter By Mya Violet Walmsley ‘Starting a revolution is hard, and it’s even harder to continue it.’ Almost sixty years ago in 1962, Algeria broke free from French state control, after a seven year long militarised […]
By the Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group, originally published in The Anvil, Vol 10 No 3, 30 June 2021. The dust has settled on the latest Israeli attack on Gaza, but the fundamental position remains. Israel continues its slow process of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and on the West Bank, while […]
by Geelong Anarchist Communists There are very few things that are more heartening to workers than involvement in organised class struggle. It reminds us all of our power, our inherent common goals, and our ability to affect change for the better, united as one. And, much like a muscle, the […]
Following on from a workshop presented on the same topic at their Marxism conference earlier this year, Socialist Alternative has published a critique of anarchism under the title “Marxism vs. anarchism: how can we save the environment?” in their paper Red Flag, written by Grace Hill. Socialist Alternative is correct […]
Since the 19th century, the Zionist movement has waged brutal colonial war against Palestinian Arab society, nearly without pause. The recent attempted evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem is only the latest in a long history of oppression and victimisation of the Palestinian working classes. On […]
