Archive for March, 2014
Anarcho-syndicalism for South African unions today? A talk by Lucien van der Walt
Saturday, March 29th, 2014Speech to Metalworkers: Anarcho-Syndicalism for South African Unions Today? Lucien van der Walt This is an abridged transcript of Lucien van der Walt’s discussion at National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) Political School. The school was held on the theme of “The Political Role of Trade Unions in the Struggle for Socialism” in [...]
Exploring “Anarchy Without Opposition”
Tuesday, March 11th, 2014We’re always glad when the ideas in our books jump off their pages and morph into real-life (or online!) discussions, so we were pleased to see that one of the pieces from our recently published book Queering Anarchism has been making the rounds online lately. Jamie Heckert’s contribution, “Anarchy Without Opposition,” has just been excerpted [...]
Abolish Prisons! An interview with Isaac Ontiveros.
Friday, March 7th, 2014“We don’t see the prison-industrial complex as broken; we see it working very, very well at surveilling, policing, imprisoning, and killing exactly who it targets.” Former AK Press collective member and current communications director of Critical Resistance, Isaac Ontiveros, gave a brilliant interview to Vice magazine recently. Read it and learn why abolition is the [...]
Marshall “Eddie” Conway: Free at Last! Interview on Democracy Now!
Wednesday, March 5th, 2014As we happily announced yesterday, Marshall “Eddie” Conway was freed from prison after being framed and locked up for nearly 44 years. At the age of 24, he was torn from his family and friends and political work by federal agents intent of shutting him down and shutting him up. As anyone who has read [...]