WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON

 Stunning documentary on the 1984 UK Miners Strike where international capital used Margaret Thatcher's Tory government to mount a vicious campaign of violence and hatred on the British working class. The film features the miners and their families experiences told through songs, poems and other art.

CHASSEURS DE SKINS

 Antifa - "Skinhead hunters"

Documentary about the rise of neo-nazi skinhead culture in 1980s Paris and how they were countered by a militant, multicultural underground movement. Contains interviews with participants recounting the subcultures and the street fights which made up their lives at the time. (description grabbed from a vimeo upload by Libcom.org)

English subtitles are hard-coded 

Fighting fascism by any means necessary!

HISTORY OF SQUATTING IN THE UK

From Aaron's reports (@aaronlakoff)

Jim is a resident of London, England, and a long-time organizer with the Advisory Service for Squatters, A.S.S. Here he speaks about the history of squatting in the UK, going as far back as the 1300's. This interview looks at squatting's relationship to the anarchist movement in the UK, the changing legal framework around squatting, and squatting within a framework of other social movements in the country.

The Advisory Service For Squatters is a collective of unpaid workers who have beenrunning a daily advice service for squatters and homeless people since 1975. It grewout of the former Family Squatters Advisory Service, which was founded in the late 1960's. ASS publishes The squatters Handbook, the twelfth edition of which is the current one, and has sold in excess of 150,000 copies since 1976. ASS offers advice on how to squat, legal help to squatters and helps fight evictions and challenge police abuse of the homeless.


READ THE INTERVIEW HERE
or just listen to the interview via radio4all.net

Images via the UK Squating Archive

VIVIR LA UTOPIA

(Spanish with English subtitles)

Living Utopia is a unique documentary that blends the historical account of the origins and development of the Spanish anarchist movement, and the revolution of 1936 — illustrating an anarchist society in action.

Workers opened communal cafes where people could eat for free. Communities set up food committees to arrange food supply with the countryside — market commerce and money was replaced in many areas by distribution according to need. Free schools, universities and health programs were set up and administrated by the workers themselves. Rural areas were collectivised. This experience, in which about 8 million people participated, showed that anarchist organisation of society could indeed work in practice. It truly was a Living Utopia.

This documentary-film by Juan Gamero consists of 30 interviews with those involved, and is both an informative and inspiring piece of research. The testimonies of the anarchist militants are very moving and show the constructive work of the social revolution in Spain, as well as the amazing educational and cultural events which lead up to 1936. Interviews are combined with visual materials such as manifestos, photographs, excerpts from film documentaries, portraits and other relevant graphical elements.

COPENHAGEN STREET ART

Source: My Anarchist Pilgrimage

More @  My Anarchist Pilgrimage

ANARCHISM IN AMERICA - DOCUMENTARY

Anarchism in America is a 1983 documentary, directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher, and produced by Pacific Street Films. It has been re-released by AK Press to DVD. The film begins by explaining the filmmakers' interest in anarchism based on their involvement in the group Transcendental Students while in film school at NYU. The film includes interviews with influential anarchists Murray Bookchin, Paul Avrich, Jello Biafra, Mollie Steimer and Karl Hess, and with poet Kenneth Rexroth. It also discusses the Spanish Civil War, the 1917 Revolution, the influence of Emma Goldman and the case of executed anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.

The film labels anarchism as the only ideology that is staunchly anti-authoritarian, and discusses how anarchist ideals align with the revolutionary, independent spirit of America from rural communities to urban zones.

THE WINGNUT ANARCHIST COLLECTIVE

"We Gladly Consume Those Who Oppress Us!"

The Wingnut is an anarchist collective house in Southern Barton Heights in Richmond, Virginia.

The Wingnut hosts all sorts of sober, all ages events, such as acoustic musical performances, craft nights, food not bombs, movie screenings, workshops, group meetings, copwatch, anarchist black cross etc.

About The Wingnut

NOAM CHOMSKY - ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM

CHOMSKY.info

So far I have been neglecting to post about Noam Chomsky, since I figured that most of you would know about him. Then again I have read a few of his books and loved them. Maybe there are some of you out there who still have to discover Chomsky. I am not going to paste a wiki here.. or describe who he is or what he does..

Discover him yourself.. if you want to.

Noam Chomsky - America's War on Terror
Noam Chomsky - Anarchism and Marxism
Noam Chomsky - Chomsky On Miseducation
Noam Chomsky - Class Warfare
Noam Chomsky - Media Control - The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Noam Chomsky - Media Control - The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Noam Chomsky - Philosophers and Public Philosophy
Noam Chomsky - Preventive war, the supreme crime
Noam Chomsky - Profit over People
Noam Chomsky - Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Noam Chomsky - War Against People
Noam Chomsky - What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Noam Chomsky - Who are the Global Terrorists
Noam Chomsky - Year 501 The Conquest Continues
Noam Chomsky - on Afghanistan

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ANARCHY AND ART BY ALLAN ANTLIFF

One of the powers of art is its ability to convey the human aspects of political events, ranging from war to revolution to sexual liberation. Art can also transform society, a theme that pervades this fascinating survey on art, artists, and anarchism since the nineteenth century.

In numerous essays, Allan Antliff interrogates moments of engagement when artists, poets, philosophers, and critics have confronted pivotal events over the past 140 years. The survey begins with artist Gustave Courbet and writer Emile Zola's activism during the 1871 Paris Commune (which established the modern-day French republic), and ends with an examination of anarchist art during the fall of the Soviet empire. Other subjects include the Neo-Impressionists and their depictions of the homeless in the 1890s; the Dada movement in New York City during World War I; the decline of the Russian Avant-Garde during the 1920s and 30s; the West Coast Beats of the 1940s and 50s; the Modernists of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s; and anarchistic responses to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 by visual artists.

Exploring art's potential as a vehicle for meaningful social change from an anarchist perspective, Allan Antliff throws new light on what it means to be radical.

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AUGUST 2011 REVOLT : ANARCHY IN THE UK

‘August 2011 Revolt: Anarchy in the UK’ contains a rough chronology of events during the rebellion, and action communiques during the period from anarchist groups aiming to deepen and extend the conflict, as well as a couple of essays written after the main events analysing the nature of the revolt and prospects for the future.

CONTENTS:

No Future, Just Vengeance…………………………..1
An Incomplete Chronology of Events……………..14
Report of Demo at Brixton Prison, 21 August……41
Letter from fugitive anarchist Badger……………..45
The Struggle Against the Existent Continues…….49
DON’T PANIC::DON’T TALK anarchist poster……..62

PDF download (in Black & White)

Thousands have been locked up since the insurrection, police chase many others, and the state seemingly have social consensus from the mass of citizens for a more fascist Britain, but the fresh blast of freedom has filled our lungs and state terror won’t stop us.

ACAB

- Dark Matter Publications

CREATIVITY WITHOUT COPYRIGHT

Creativity Without Copyright:

Anarchist Publishers and Their Approaches to Copyright Protection

Abstract:

This paper offers an analysis of the intersection between anarchism and copyright law by drawing on interviews with publishers working for anarchist and radical presses operating in the United States. Given the ideological commitment of anarchists to a critique of property rights within a capitalist system, it can be hypothesized that anarchist publishers would be less likely to endorse a system of copyright than mainstream book publishers. However, anarchist publishers operate within a capitalist system and must theorize their use (or lack of use) of copyright within a framework unsuited for their ultimate goals. Ultimately, anarchist publishers offer an opportunity to investigate the theory and practice of anarchism as it is confronted by a capitalist system of property protection – copyright law.

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AMIR SULAIMAN - DANGER

"i am david with a slingshot and a rock
and if david lived today
he'd have a molotov cocktail and a glock
so down with goliath,
i say down with goliath!"

CAPITALISM IS NOT IN CRISIS

Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity examines the ideological roots of the "austerity" agenda and proposes revolutionary paths out of the current crisis. The film features original interviews with Chris Hedges, Derrick Jensen, Michael Hardt, Peter Gelderloos, Leo Panitch, David McNally, Richard J.F. Day, Imre Szeman, Wayne Price, and many more!

The 2008 "financial crisis" in the United States was a systemic fraud in which the wealthy finance capitalists stole trillions of public dollars. No one was jailed for this crime, the largest theft of public money in history.

Instead, the rich forced working people across the globe to pay for their "crisis" through punitive "austerity" programs that gutted public services and repealed workers' rights.

Austerity was named "Word of the Year" for 2010.

This documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.

Special attention is devoted to the crisis in Greece, the 2010 G20 Summit protest in Toronto, Canada, and the remarkable surge of solidarity in Madison, Wisconsin.

It may be their crisis, but it's our problem.

TOP 10 REVOLUTIONARY VIDEOS OF 2011

The Top Ten Revolutionary
Videos of 2011
by Michael Truscello
@ Dissident Voice

OCCUPY PARIS ANNO 1871

The Paris Commune (French: La Commune de Paris) was a government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 (more formally, from March 28) to May 28, 1871. It existed before the split between anarchists and Marxists had taken place, and it is hailed by both groups as the first assumption of power by the working class during the Industrial Revolution. Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune contributed to the break between those two political groups.

In a formal sense, the Paris Commune simply acted as the local authority, the city council (in French, the "commune"), which exercised power in Paris for two months in the spring of 1871. However, the conditions in which it formed, its controversial decrees, and its violent end make its tenure one of the more important political episodes of the time.

Continue reading on Wikipedia.

THE ANTICS ROADSHOW

The Antics Roadshow from StreetArtNews on Vimeo.

An hour-long special made by Banksy charting the history of behaving badly in public, from anarchists and activists to attention seeking eccentrics.

Contributors include Michael Fagan talking about breaking into the Queen's bedroom: 'I looked into her eyes, they were dark'; and Noel Godin, who pioneered attacking celebrities with custard pies: 'Instead of a bullet I give them a cake'.

Explaining his reasoning behind the show, Banksy said: 'Basically I just thought it was a good name for a TV programme and I've been working back from there'.

Narrated by Kathy Burke and produced by Jamie D'cruz, The Antics Roadshow examines the stories behind some of the most audacious stunts of recent times and what motivates the perpetrators, from mindless boredom to heartfelt political beliefs.

It includes a world exclusive first interview with the man responsible for putting the turf Mohican on Winston Churchill's head.

NO HOPE BY SAM BAIN

 

No Hope is a book of conversations with authors Carolyn Chute, Derrick Jensen and Kirkpatrick Sale. Breaking through the postmodern condition of alienation, the authors ponder human origins, anarchy, and the collapse of industrial civilization.

Grab it here!

LONDON RIOTS 2011 BY ALEC EMPIRE

Blog post on Eat Your Heart Out by Alec Empire on the ongoing London riots. 

Read it here.. 

FREE KIT

By Elfo

WRITINGS OF EMMA GOLDMAN

Anarchism: What It Really Stands For

If you are looking for some interesting literature then stop searching because here it is.. "Anarchism: What is Really Stands For" by Emma Goldman, an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. (wiki)

  

paragraph on direct action (excerpt)

Direct action, having proven effective along economic lines, is equally potent in the environment of the individual. There a hundred forces encroach upon his being, and only persistent resistance to them will finally set him free. Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come about without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.

READ IT HERE 

Find other collected works by her right here.