See here for latest “News of Opposition”:
South Africa, Gauteng: residents block all entrances/exits to town, molotov cops, in resistance to electricity & water cut-offs…Cape Town: train set alight as riot breaks out over train delays…Soweto: 202 illegal miners arrested during wildcat strike at gold mine…Burma, Rangoon: clashes as Aung San Suu Kyi’s cops evict land squatters…France, Grenoble: youths stone fire brigade after having set their Middle School on fire, burning most of it…Morocco, Rif: further clashes between cops and demonstrators in this Berber region …Colombia, Bogota: riot cops violently attack striking teachers blocking roads …Guinea, Kamsar: teenager killed by cops during riots against electricity cuts; 7 cops seriously injured…police station ransacked…India, Bhopal: truck torched, stones thrown at cops, as farmers movement spreads…France, Creil (Oise): cops hurt as youths attack their arrest of joyrider…Calais: migrants put up barricade across motorway during the night…Canada, Saskatchewan: prison riot causes $100,000 worth of damage…Morocco, Rif: further clashes between cops & youths …South Africa, Soweto: 16 NUM scabs beaten up in wildcat strike called against bosses’ crackdown on illegal mining…France, Tarascon: 3 cops hurt, bullet proof vest & tear gas grenade stolen by 30 youths as cops carry out car control…Senegal, Dakar: several hours of heavy confrontations between students & cops as students protest non-payment of grants for 8 months…India, Maharastra: 1100 riot cops sent to area…toll plaza & police station smashed up, bank attacked , vehicles torched…bus completely burnt out…France, Seine-St.Denis: police station attacked with heavy-duty fireworks for 2nd evening in a row…South Africa, Port Elizabeth: cars torched during protests about service delivery and eviction notices…Iran, Kuzhestan: cops fire birdshot at striking workers…Germany, Weilheim: arson attack on police station…Guinea, Conakry: roads barricaded with burning tyres in several parts of capital for 3rd day running in anger against electricity cuts
Dialectical Delinquents
“Taking up the violence of the delinquents on the plane of ideas”
Incorporating:
Rudolf Rockers, Hegel’s Angels, Debord’s Deadbeats,
Vaneigem’s Vandals, the Bakunin and Marx Brothers and Sisters,
Skins for Skepticism, Mods against Post-modernism,
Punks for Proletarian Praxis, Rühle’s Ruthlessly Critical Rude Boys,
Hippy Hooligans Against Hierarchical Hegemony,
Grunge Greasers From Gründrisse,
Teds against tedium, & Crips for Creative Critique
One of the aims of the ruling show is to get people to believe that they have a better chance of living if they remain on their knees. But realistically, the choice today is increasingly no longer a question of it being better to die on our feet or to live on our knees, but a choice between dying on our knees or living and dying on our feet. Fairly good chance that we’ll be fucked if we get off our knees, but for sure, we’ll be even more fucked if we don’t.
“…that paradoxical feeling …..
of living in a world
without any possible escape,
in which there was nothing for it
but
to fight
for an impossible escape…”
– Victor Serge
Never before has a global revolutionary destruction of hierarchical power seemed so indisputably necessary. And yet never before has it seemed so impossible. The monster created and developed by the various ruling classes and those willingly submissive to them – the commodity society – has never before been so obviously intent on the destruction of everything other than itself. If an increasingly intelligent global community of revolt doesn’t seriously threaten the power of the state and the economy over the next 2, 5, 10, 15 years then future rulers will be ruling over social relations that will make the decadence of Caligula-dominated Rome seem like a beacon of enlightenment and World War ll like an oasis of compassion.
As we advance further into an epoch of what will almost certainly be permanent and worsening crisis, this site hopes to help clarify and extend the revolts that are developing everywhere and help defeat the counter-revolution that is developing everywhere. Theory informs practise and practise informs theory. Neither can make progress without the other. In opposition to all the various forms of determinism vis-a-vis the eventual outcome of a possible future revolution (whether optimistic or pessimistic), a significant part of the struggle is to see what choices are made and what choices are avoided. Practical ideas improve or regress on the basis of the efforts to supersede the past, its strengths and weaknesses, its successes and failures – for ourselves and the whole world: inseparably.
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This is not an open access site: it has no pretensions to being “democratic” in the sense of being welcoming to absolutely anybody. Anyone who persists over time in dogmatic ideological arguments which go nowhere will be censored and/or banned. Undoubtedly there will be many who have ideologically petrified notions whilst also having some lucid ideas and interesting facts to contribute. But if they persist in pursuing their dogmas impervious to argument, then their comments will be suppressed. The aim of this site is not to get into head-bashing ego-battles, to repeatedly refute the same stale ideas, but to develop perspectives that clarify and help advance social contestation, to bring a breath of fresh air. All texts appearing here will be signed by their author(s) or their pseudonyms.
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Unless otherwise stated, all texts have been written exclusively by me (SamFantoSamotnaf)
“My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.” – Karl Kraus
The texts on this site will eventually include all public texts written or co-written by me since I first started writing public texts in 1969 – the Good, the Bad and the Embarassing. Making these archive texts public on the internet is not intended to in any way valorise their importance for present expressions of opposition; it should be obvious that even the good archive texts have to be critiqued and updated, and made relevant to what’s going on now.
Other texts will include links to already online texts that I think are useful, or interesting texts that do not so far exist online. It will also include news items or links to news items in the “news of opposition” section. The texts are organised under various overlapping and oversimplified categories and many might appear several times, though in different sections. There is obviously no copyright on these texts.
(last 2 paragraphs slightly altered on 24/2/13)
THIS SITE WAS ORIGINALLY LAUNCHED AT THE END OF DECEMBER 2012
(updated 20th February 2013: my thanks to Bartleby who, despite preferring not to, provided me with invaluable help in re-organising this site)
Brought to you by “Sam Samotnaf Fantomas”
PS If you want a 6-point programme here, see “Where we stand”.
Let’s get the party going!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK7nTY7zG4E
What’s this I feel on my whole being. I’m becoming a smile. Thanx!
Wonderful site. Lots of helpful info here. I’m sending it to a few friends ans also sharing in delicious. And of course, thanks to your effort!
C’est embêtant parce que je ne comprends pas la langue anglaise . Mais heureusement il reste les images 😉
Cette page traduit ici:
http://dialectical-delinquents.com/articles/textes-francais/delinquants-dialectiques-accueil-du-site/
https://postproletariat.wordpress.com/2017/03/17/how-to-end-capitalism/
Great site thank you