Comments for Anarcho-Syndicalist Review

Comment on Trumpocolypse by Jon Bekken

Jon Bekken — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 01:07:03 +0000

A great many people are barred from voting in U.S. elections. Some are barred on the basis of citizenship, others on the basis of prior criminal convictions. People are barred because they do not have a permanent address, or because they live on a reservation. Many states require ID which millions do not have. Polling places are closed in poor areas, or provided with insufficient voting machines to ensure hours-long lines. Huge numbers are purged from voting rolls. The barriers erected to voting are myriad, and it is quite clear that they disproportionately affect minorities and the elderly, the poor and those living and working in precarity. It is clear that millions were barred from the polls in the most recent elections.

Comment on Trumpocolypse by Julian Bull

Julian Bull — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 23:33:37 +0000

I was not aware that some are denied the right to vote or have their votes counted based upon their race, could you elaborate on this please? Are you referring to permanent residents? I though the United States had a one adult one vote system

Comment on Anarchist Science Fiction by anir

anir — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 19:42:50 +0000

I enjoyed Meiville’s book greately, indeed he’s one of my fav authors. The SWP are a trotskyiet organisation, not a leninist one, according to google, and there is a diff.
Its a pleasure to hear about Moorcock, as I had given up on him after Elric. I’ll look up his other works.
The dispossessed was great, and the ending to Use of Weapons was quite dramatic in my opinion, haven’t read other Banks yet.
This site gives other recs: https://seesharppress.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/anarchist-science-fiction-favorite-novels/

Comment on ASR 71-2 (Fall 2017) by Practices of Self-Organisation in 1980s South Africa – Freedom News

Practices of Self-Organisation in 1980s South Africa – Freedom News — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 09:32:10 +0000

[…] Daria Zelenova is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and a faculty member of the Higher School of Economics in Russia. A further essay by her on the subject of self-organisation in South Africa was recently published in the fall issue of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review […]

Comment on ASR 69, Winter 2017 by Gregory Maksimov: The Politics of Anarcho-Syndicalism | Robert Graham's Anarchism Weblog

Fri, 03 Mar 2017 06:37:51 +0000

[…] of anarchy as a form of direct democracy based on voluntary federation (what I have described elsewhere as “associational democracy”) goes back quite some time, well before Murray Bookchin […]

Comment on Anarcho-Syndicalist Review 61-75 by We Do Not Fear Anarchy: A Summary | Robert Graham's Anarchism Weblog

We Do Not Fear Anarchy: A Summary | Robert Graham's Anarchism Weblog — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 17:44:45 +0000

[…] It: The First International and the Emergence of the Anarchist Movement, which was published in ASR #63 (Winter 2015). It’s a bit long for my blog, but here it is. The full book can be ordered from AK […]

Comment on ASR 64/65 Summer 2015 by New Issue of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review | workers freedom

New Issue of Anarcho-Syndicalist Review | workers freedom — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 19:11:53 +0000

[…] click for details […]

Comment on Nunzio Pernicone by 206

206 — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:42:06 +0000

What a sad loss.

Comment on The American Health Care Crisis: Capitalism by stephen

stephen — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:43:16 +0000

I worked in the mental health sector in the 1990’s in the uk. Despite our NHS, we had trouble attracting consultant psychiatrists due to the fact that our catchment area had a very high incidence of mental health problems – the reason being that our area was economically disadvantaged, with all the attendant stress and drug issues that deprivation brings. Young doctors would come and stay for a year or so and then opt for a position paying the same amount in a leafy suburban area.

Neither I nor – to the best of my knowledge – anybody I went to school with ever became doctors. This is because working class kids were not considered bright enough to enter medical school.

I believe, therefore, that a post revolutionary society would require less medical professionals due to reduced health risks (no macdonalds, no coca cola, vast reduction in relative poverty) . Yet we would have more health professionals due to wider access to specialised education, particularly among the working classes.

Sort of a problem that solves itself.

Comment on Are the Republicans Anarchists? by Nouvelle édition du Anarcho-syndicalist Review!! (hiver 2014) | liberté ouvrière

Wed, 05 Feb 2014 22:32:03 +0000

[…] 4 Are the Republicans Anarchists? A Reply to Sen. Warren […]