One of the most distinctive aspects of anarchism is its anti-electoralism. When the doctrine was first coming together in the 19th century, our hostility to parliaments and electoral socialism was one of our key defining traits. Against both revolutionary and reformist social-democrats, anarchists argued for direct action and class organisation […]
Daniel Rashid
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The especifist tendency’s retreat from class analysis is not just a theoretical mistake – it in fact cuts them off from understanding the only thing that might actually realise anarchism.
As the government decides how best to cut down the union, it’s essential that workers stand with the CFMEU and defend it against government intervention. Any proposed administrators should be rejected, and the rank and file organised to take control of what's theirs.
On 9 November 2019 the Yuendumu community was devastated when Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe shot and killed 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker. Rolfe went to trial earlier this year and was acquitted by an all-white jury. The case brought to light many fundamental aspects of colonial policing such as Rolfe […]
Mya Walmsley’s recent article “The Ballot Box or the Streets?” is a welcome contribution to the present debate among Australian anarchists regarding elections. It would be incorrect to think of it as just being about elections, however; it is part of a general discussion regarding the general strategic perspective of […]
For Alexandre Skirda Published in the Summer 2022 edition of Socialist Alternative’s Marxist Left Review is Mick Armstrong’s incredible article “Property is sacred: How Proudhon moulded anarchism”. Whilst Socialist Alternative has published fairly unconvincing attacks on anarchism before, this one is by far the most significant of them all, both […]
English original of a French translation, published in the December 2021 issue of Le Monde Libertaire. Based on correspondence between the author and French anarcho-syndicalist René Berthier. Daniel Rashid: I was curious, has there been much coverage of the AUKUS treaty in France and the diplomatic reaction to it? In […]
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 […]
Michael Heinrich’s introduction to Capital offhandedly deals with a point popular among leftist academics: “The difference between services and physical objects consists of a distinction of the material content; the question as to whether they are commodities pertains to their social form, and that depends upon whether objects and services […]
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 […]
It should go without saying that socialists are deeply interested in race, gender, sexuality and all the other innumerate social categories that exist in the capitalist system, beyond the fundamental class structure of proletariat and bourgeoisie. Virtually all socialists agree that they are of concern; the disagreements come elsewhere, and […]
The 28th of November, 2020 marks the 200th anniversary of Friedrich Engels’ birth. Unsurprisingly, the occasion has been celebrated by the publication of a number of hagiographies from Marxist outlets. These do not satisfy us. The intention of this article is not to deny any of Engels’ strengths; they are […]