WOMBLES - Analysis

The Freiburg Programme: A five-year plan on deviant behaviour

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:00:00 +0000

from email, updated 24 February 2010: "A five year plan on deviant behaviour, creating a European space of freedom, anti-capitalism and rebellion. The European wide network "Out Of Control" was created in 2009 with the purpose of a cross-border collaboration of activists against a European security architecture..." more

The Anti-Poll Tax Movement, Trafalgar Square and the Defendants' Campaign

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:55:28 +0000

from email, 13 February 2010: "On March 31st 1990, the day before the tax was to be implemented, over 200 Haringey residents met up at Turnpike Lane tube to travel together to join over 250,000 people marching through Central London calling for mass non-payment and resistance to the tax. It was a carnival atmosphere. As the demonstration passed Thatcher's headquarters (Downing St) there was a confrontation with police, and it soon turned into a battle with mounted police and riot units. Eventually, Trafalgar Sq became a battleground as thousands of people fought police for control of the square and the area around it. The anti-poll tax movement gained world-wide coverage..." more

"The most horrid scenario would be for us to be saved" (or, when I hear the words ‘national unity’ I reach for my gas mask)

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:47:10 +0000

from occupied london, 12 February 2010: "It’s been making headlines the world over: the greek economy is in crisis, the times call for unity, the nation is in trouble, there is a debt lingering and this is somewhat a “national” one as well. What an image: the revolted of December 2008 to be showing the way of obedience, succumbing to austerity plans, to the economists’ expertise..." more

Afghanistan: Embracing Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is no method at all

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:26:39 +0000

from rawa, 27 January 2010: "One thing that remains consistent over the last 30 years in observing America's participation in Afghanistan is that mistakes and errors of judgment, no matter how egregious or self-defeating, never seem to get corrected. In fact, in its effort to rationalize a growing culture of war-making from Vietnam to Afghanistan, America has come around to embracing the insanity of the fictional Colonel Kurtz..." more

Italy: FdCA statement on Rosarno - White hoods and 'omertà'

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:10:10 +0000

from ainfos, 12 January 2010: "What happened in Rosarno has without doubt come as a slap in the face to all those who believe in and fight for a different world where sides based on race, language and religion face up to each other are just an ugly memory, and to all those who see the unity of all workers, wherever they are from, as the only force able to build a better society of free equals.

The violence of the State and of these new Calabrian Ku Klux Klans armed with rifles and iron bars, with more than a hint of agricultural 'ndrangheta, towards the community of immigrants is an unfortunate reminder of the stories of Uncle Tom's Cabin..." more

The EU's murderous borders: four poles of suffering and denial of rights

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:30:47 +0000

from bristol no borders, 4 January 2010: "A report published by Migreurop (a Euro-African network of 40 organisations from 13 countries working on issues of immigration policy, externalisation and their consequences within and beyond the EU's borders) in October 2009 paints a vivid picture of the effects of the EU's migration policies by focussing on three regions in which a number of common denominators are identified in spite of the significant difference between them (the Calais region and the north of France, the Greek-Turkish border and the Oujda region in eastern Morocco)..." more

Taking care of business: How big business has hijacked climate talks

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:58:35 +0000

from climate-imc, 26 November 2009: "Until recently, many of the globe's biggest corporations were firmly in the climate change denial camp - and funding spurious research to back up their claims. Now a new realism has emerged. Climate change is no longer rejected as a bogus theory the economy can ill afford. Instead, it's a business opportunity..." more

BAAM Boston: Why we're winning

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:46:47 +0000

from BAAMBoston, 3 November 2009: "A curious property evident in the discussion of insurrection in the United States is that it gets more respect the further it occurs from home. Anarchists who would never dream of complaining that the Thessaloniki Food not Bombs is being neglected while its members amuse themselves burning banks, who could never conceive of suggesting that the Somali pirates stop seizing ships for ransom in order to start a bike repair collective, have no problem criticizing their own friends and comrades for shortchanging local projects to attend semi-annual mass mobilizations..." more

Newswires: Anarchist

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:41:52 +0000

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keywords: anarchist, anarchy, anarchism... more

Statement from Antifa England: Fighting fascism is a task for us all

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:44:35 +0000

from antifa, 31 October 2009: "In the past in Britain (and still today in most other European countries) opposing fascism was considered a duty by almost all anarchists and socialists. Today, many (particularly within the British anarchist movement) have abdicated responsibility for taking on the fascists, and either ignore the issue completely, or at best seed responsibility to specialist antifascist groups such as Antifa. Opposing fascism is something ALL of us have to play a part in, particularly with the growing influence of fascist groups like the British National Party (BNP)..." more

No bell curve in the jaws of peak oil

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:26:41 +0000

from Energy Bulletin, 26 October 2009: "What proved to be correct for individual nations, well-defined regions, and specific fields in the relatively early stages of exhausting traditional oil - namely reaching an “objective” maximum rate of output and declining smoothly thereafter - seems staggeringly improbable for the entire world in the sunset phase of the petroleum age. What looked like a summit, arching against a clear sky of commonplace obviousness from a distance, is turning out to be the mirage of a Sphinx from the near. To show this, we need to keep in mind that in the life of any geographically defined oil wealth - from a single well to the planet - there are three peaks: One relates to physics, the other to economics, and the third is the actually recorded, de facto peak..." more

Brighton ABC: Why prisoner support is important

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:38:58 +0000

from brighton ABC, 20 October 2009: "The following article has been written by Brighton ABC, with input from other ABC activists and random anarchists. It is due to be included in the copy of Freedom newspaper available at this Saturday's London Anarchist Bookfair. It reflects on the generally low-level of prisoner support & solidarity within our movement, and why we should increase it. Read it here if you miss it at the bookfair..." more

Conclusion report of 1-8 October anti-capitalist resistance days against the IMF and WB summit

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:08:25 +0000

from Resistanbul Committee of the Ungovernables, 9 October 2009: "We are informed that on 7th of October while we were sieging Istanbul from all sides, the IMF and the World Bank meeting had to be finished in a haste. So we, as the ungovernable of resistanbul, gathered here to announce our own riotistanbul decisions against the so- called Istanbul decisions of the governors..." more

London Climate Camp and the Anarchist Federation - a perspective paper

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:01:12 +0000

from email, 3 October 2009: "A perspective paper produced by members of the Anarchist Federation within climate camp 2009 - At the 2008 Climate Camp in Kingsnorth an open letter was circulated by anti-capitalist campers raising concerns that the movement was increasingly being by influenced state-led approaches to tackling climate change. A more developed version was later published by Shift magazine. The original argued broadly that the camp should adopt anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian principles and objectives..." more

Of walls and flows: An Occupied London interview with Manuel Castells

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:09:03 +0000

from OL, 13 August 2009: "In “The Rise of the Network Society” you provide a portrait of the new political economy of the globalisation of sovereignty. There, you suggest that in the 1990s there were a number of institutional shifts which lifted the barriers set in the 1930s and 1940s as a response to the 1929 depression. These shifts evidently comprised a cornerstone of the neoliberal, free market project… But could they also be signaling the beginning of its end? more