The tortured geography of Berlin

Zapatistas & revolutionary romance

Post March 30: The movement evaporates

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.

Audio: Noam Chomsky & the WSM discuss politics over breakfast
Noam Chomsky was in Dublin again last week and five WSM members met up with him over breakfast for a conversation about anarchism and social struggles. I finished editing the audio of this earlier today and have now posted it to indymedia.ie. Chomsky has a huge reputation in Ireland; he talks to halls packed with 1000's of people and appears on the main chat shows so its nice that on his last couple of visits he's made time to meet with the local anarchist movement. This time we could only grab a breakfast sl

Memory and Yugoslavia
I've been watching downloads of "The Death of Yugoslavia", the 6 part BBC documentary about the break-up of Yugoslavia.   This was made in 1995 and if fascinating as a large number of key players on both sides of the war gave extensive interviews. It's triggered memories of a trip through Yugoslavia in 1990 and my more recent visit to Croatia in June. ShareThis

Class classification and its limitations, recording a WSM educational
I've been bold of late and allowed procrastination to result in a back log of audio material I should have published.  This audio recorded in September is of a WSM branch educational given by Paul Bowman on class classification.  In it he looks at the various systems that have been used before arguing that this is perhaps the wrong appraoch to the question and that we should look on class as more of a relationship then a distinct thing.  Anyway here is the first of the missing audio's I should get a good few more up in t