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 […]
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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 […]
In October, our group participated in a discussion on salting, industrialising, and other related strategies that have the common theme of seeking employment in particular jobs for political reasons. One of the texts was “In Defence of Working Class Existence as a Choice”, by the UK-based group Angry Workers of […]
Radical history is littered with unknown people, anonymous figures who nevertheless – in their own modest ways – contributed to the development of socialism and the workers’ movement generally. Some were very important, others less so. An example of a man that falls into the latter category is William Edwell […]
On the face of it, one of the more inexplicable elements of humans is our tendency to not only accept suffering, but to give it out to others. One can find an example in the cases of tradesmen bullying apprentices – many of the bullies were themselves bullied when they […]
The concept of federalism is one that appears time and time again in anarchist literature and in anarchist activity, yet in the present day, it is rarely elaborated upon – at least in English. You’re more likely to hear people talk about “direct democracy”, “decentralisation”, “horizontalism” and other slightly different […]