For what it’s worth, and ‘cos I mentioned it previously, I thought I might as well post the letter Simon Critchley sent to Harper’s regarding Slavoj Žižek’s review of his latest treatise, Infinitely Demanding. The review, along with a response by David Graeber, can be read here.
Here ’tis (by way of Eric H):
Letter to Harper’s Magazine, May 2008
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Huh. Just stumbled upon The Punk Years, a UK doco. Here’s Part One of the first episode:
¡La Lucha Continúa!
Not unexpectedly, the recent split from / expulsion of the Leninist Party Faction (LPF) has produced a flurry of activity on teh Interwebs, both among the parties (and factions) concerned, leftist trainspotters, and er, concerned communists citizens. A sample: Read more »
It’s not fair. I’ve noted that Michael Costa, Keith Windschuttle and Paul Owens are ex-Trots, but what about all those ex-anarchists? Well, when I write ‘ex-anarchist’, I really mean those-who-may-once-have-called-themselves-anarchists but who now… well, no longer do. I think.
Here’s a sample: Read more »
On May 10, 2008, the national leadership of the Democratic Socialist Perspective (formerly the Democratic Socialist Party) decided to purge all of the members of a minority faction – the Leninist Party Faction – from the DSP. The LPF was formed at the end of the DSP’s 22nd congress in January 2006. Its platform was supported by a bit less than one-fifth of the DSP membership in the election of delegates to the 23rd DSP congress (held in January 2008).
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Greece: Suspected anarchists firebomb central Athens tax office, no injuries
The Associated Press / International Herald Tribune
May 9, 2008
ATHENS, Greece: Greek police say suspected anarchist arsonists have firebombed a tax office in central Athens and caused extensive damage but no injuries.
Police say a group of 30 youths threw petrol bombs at the building and set it on fire.
The building was closed at the time of the attack late Friday. Read more »
Money is funny. Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
A slackbastard appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. Read more »
And I think they’ve got a point. Oh, and drop the charges against Dave Kerin too!
Drop the charges against the G20 arrestees
SP Newsletter No.213 Read more »
In Crikey!, Margaret Simons has reported that the KRudd Government “is being tougher and more ruthless with asylum seekers than the HoWARd Government”, based on an analysis “of decisions made by the new Minister for Immigration, Senator Chris Evans” by the rabble at the Asylum Seekers’ Resource Centre: Read more »
two reviews of a cans festival in piss street. london. Read more »
Yeah so NSW Labour Premier Morris Iemma is very keen to privatise the remains of the NSW state electricity system (a process begun some years ago). Anyway, Iemma’s plan is deeply unpopular among members of the NSW ALP, delegates of which at the NSW State conference last weekend voted overwhelmingly against it (by 702 votes to 107). Given that state conference has bugger-all control over state caucus, however, it look like Iemma’s plan will be put into action sooner rather than later. Crazed anti-Communist scribbler Imre Salusinsky writes: Read more »
This message brought to you by the letters S - O - L - I - D - A - R - I - T and Y.
Dear Supporters
1. Union Solidarity: Extraordinary Meeting.
2. Union Solidarity Coordinator faces 6 months jail.1. Union Solidarity will hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss the situation facing Dave Kerin.
6pm Wednesday
May 7
Trades Hall (follow the signs to meeting room)
Lygon St
Carlton
(All welcome)2. Union Solidarity Coordinator faces 6 months jail. Read more »
Welf Herfurth writes a letter to Crikey!, April 22, 2008: Re. “Torch protest: who’ll be there, from Amway up”. Read more »
Interesting article in the New Statesman, by way of Unity blog.
Hours before Boris Johnson took the platform outside City Hall to proclaim his victory as the next mayor of London, anarchists and anti-fascist activists assembled along the Queen’s Walk to protest the elections and in a bid to blockade Richard Barnbrook and other members of the British National Party from approaching City Hall. Read more »
British National Party member Richard Barnbrook has been elected to the London Assembly. He gave a great, drunken acceptance speech. Read more »
…Detractors say that the consequences [of the events of May 1968] have been disastrous – divorce, drugs, crime and a general breakdown in social cohesion amid the pursuit of individual happiness. Mr Sarkozy was virulent in his criticism, pledging to “liquidate the legacy” of the uprising during his election campaign last year. He is in a minority. According to a recent poll 80 per cent of French people think that May ’68 had a positive influence on relationships between men and women. Read more »
Much respect. Best wishes to the poor bastard who got stabbed. And three cheers for Jazz Randyman — you rock!
Melbourne taxi drivers consider further protests
Maria Bervanakis
Melbourne Leader
May 2, 2008
TAXI drivers have warned Wednesday’s snap city blockade could happen again. Read more »
2007 | On May Day 2006, I started blogging at anarchobase. In May 2008, after an absence of three weeks, I return… Read more »
As expected, the NSW Labor caucus has (again) approved the privatisation of the NSW electricity system, against the wishes of the great majority of delegates to the recent Party conference, and without even a a whimper of dissent (Electricity dissidents face expulsion from party: Iemma, Andrew Clennell and Brian Robins, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 1 Read more »
Sorry. Couldn’t help myself. A x-post from FDB!
A little birdy in Gosnells, WA has chirped a little gossip in our ear.
What kind of gossip? Tawdry gossip, of course! The best kind.
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‘Eco-terrorist’ gets 20 years for plotting bombing campaign
AFPSAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — An “eco-terrorist” convicted of plotting to blow up or firebomb government and commercial buildings across California was on Thursday jailed for nearly 20 years, justice officials said.
Eric McDavid, 29, who was found guilty in March on conspiracy to damage or destroy property by fire and an explosive, was sentenced to roughly 19 and a half years prison at a hearing in Sacramento, northern California.
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Demanding the Impossible, Jennifer Mills, newmatilda, May 2008.
Choice quotes:
“The movement’s strengths were its diversity and spontaneity, which is why it’s so often quoted by anarchists when they’re trying to tell people what to do. But those strengths are also what makes soixante-huit hard to pin down as a piece of history, to slot neatly into our [sic] narrative of post-war European development as tending inexorably toward democracy.”
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Sheesh. You’d think that Simon Morgan and John Osborn were the first yuppie functionaries to have criticised the Tory Party leadership, not the latest. In any case, the editorial brains at the Herald Sun are unhappy: “Rather than confronting what he admits are “genuine deep-seated problems” in his own party, Mr Baillieu should be tackling the Brumby Government with both hands and positioning the Liberals for the best possible tilt at the 2010 election”. Osborn isn’t taking things lying down, however, releasing an email in which Tory state campaign manager Susan Chandler allegedly made an unflattering reference to Tory candidate Adam Held: “The email referred to Mr Held as a “greedy fucking Jew” after he asked for more campaign material” (Disgust at Liberal’s anti-Semitic email, news.com.au, May 12, 2008). Read more »
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Michael Costa
Costa’s obscene outburst at unions
Andrew West and Andrew Clennell
Sydney Morning Herald
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Or so says Cameron O’Reilly, Executive Director of the Energy Retailers Association of Australia:
Read more »On the other hand, Verona is also home to Los Fastidios (1991–), a really great skinhead band.
‘Johnny & the Queer Boot Boys’: Read more »
(Post-)Fascist Gianfranco Fini, leader of the National Alliance and the Lower House in the Italian Parliament, has got himself into a spot of bother by claiming that the recent burning of an Israeli flag at a protest in Turin is “much more serious” an offence than the beating to death of Nicola Tommasoli by a gang of boneheads in Verona. “Appearing on a television talk show, Mr Fini said the rise of neo nazi gangs was less disturbing than the activities of left-wing activists. Read more »
two reviews of a cans festival in piss street. london. Read more »
In Italy, following closely on the heels of the Corrupt Knight’s glorious victory and Gianni Alemanno’s triumphant march on Rome, comes the murder of 29-year-old designer, Nicola Tommasoli, in Verona, beaten to death by a gang of boneheads. Read more »
Appeal over G20 jail time
Herald Sun
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As is the nature of teh Interwebs, one thing has lead to another. In this case, police spying on anti-Olympics campaigners in Canada to Australia’s own Maxwell Smarts. Below : Protestors face off with RCMP in order to protect Eagleridge Bluffs. Note that in January 2007, “People across the province were shocked by the 14 day jail sentence handed down to 71 year old native Elder Harriet Nahanee for peacefully protesting while inside an injunction zone at Eagleridge Bluffs. Read more »
Bad News:
THE FLEMISH BRANCH of Blood and Honour (B&H) has cancelled all its scheduled activities for the rest of the year. The nazi bonehead outfit is in crisis and will not plan any more events until further notice. Read more »
naked raygun… from chicago. geddit? Read more »
Three weeks ago, on or about April 8/9, the ‘Mathaba News Network’ sent a ‘cease and desist’ letter to Distribute IT. The letter alleged that I had engaged in defamation in a post on my blog, and demanded its removal, as well as the cessation of all services to anarchobase.com, and details regarding the author. Read more »
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