Anarchism and the right
First off, a couple of new posts. The first is an interview I conducted with Mark Leier for Black Flag (issue no. 229). ShareThisread more

Peak Oil and resistance to Tar Sands extraction
We'd a national Shell to Sea meeting in Dublin this Saturday at the end of which we had a talk from Heather Milton Lightening of the Indigenous Environmental Network about the struggle against Tar Sand extraction in Alberta, Canada.  This is a filthy process that involves vast open cast mines, tailing ponds that can be seen from space and the use of huge quantities of water and energy making it a major cause of climate change.  Back in 2006 I mention

Audio: Social struggles in South Africa
We recently hosted Jonathan of the South African Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) in Dublin.  He was doing a speaking tour of Ireland and Britain on the subject of 'After Apartheid: Social struggle in South Africa'.  I've just uploaded the audio of his Dublin talk, its linked below.  Jonathan is another person I've 'known' online for quite a long period so it was good to meet him IRL at the London anarchist bookfair which provided the first date for his talk.

nada es verdad
Dos golpes de Estado. Dos países. Una misma agenda política. Tanto el golpe de estado en Honduras, como el golpe contra el sindicato mexicano de electricistas (SME) parecen confirmar que el estado de excepción es la norma, y que tal como lo propone James C. Scott, el capitalismo se caracteriza por el desequilibrio que genera la persistente resistencia de las clases subalternas, en todas sus manifestaciones: de la pasiva a la activa, de la espontánea a la organizada, de la efímera a la permanente.[1] ShareThis

A Journey of Undiscovery
Or the frustrations of social research In Europe the pilots are arguing in favour of shorter hours on the basis of health and safety. In contrast, I came accross a report of surgeons in the UK represented by the Royal College of Surgeons in England were using health and safety of patients to argue against working time reductions. This is what they want