The following from the fine folks putting on the Toronto Anarchist Bookfair next weekend – sadly, this year we will not be able to attend the bookfair, but i really encourage all of you who are nearby to check it out, looks like there will be great stuff happening! Here
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Sketchy Thoughts: It didn’t start with Occupy, and it won’t end with the student strike! The persistence of anti-authoritarian politics in Quebec
“It didn’t start with Occupy, and it won’t end with the student strike! The persistence of anti-authoritarian politics in Quebec” – this is a new article that appeared in wi: journal of mobile media. Of some interest!
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: NOLA: APOCalypse: Survival Strategies for the New Millenium
Just received this callout for an Anarchist People of Color gathering in NOLA later this year, which i figured i’d share with you all: Aah, it’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: While current paradigms of social, political and economic oppression thrash against their imminent demise, taking the planet
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-05-27 18:29:00
CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:THE VICTORIA ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR: Fall rolls around once more, and, as the leaves are turning colour the colourful Victoria Anarchist Bookfair will be blowing into town out there on the west coast. Here’s the details: Victoria Anarchist Bookfair Call for Participation ***** 1. Victoria Anarchist Bookfair Dates &
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Decolonizing Anarchism: An Anticolonial Critique
There was an “anti-colonial Victoria Day” book launch in Montreal on May 21, where Maia Ramnath presented her new book Decolonizing Anarchism, published by AK Press and the Institute for Anarchist Studies (and available from leftwingbooks.net). What made this launch special, and different from most such events, was that the
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Book Review: “The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics”
Now Available from AK Press & your local Infoshop! The touchstone for many of the struggles currently enveloping us—from the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement to the events in the Quebec—is the question of how far our conception of democracy extends and especially as it relates to the economic
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-04-12 23:04:00
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR/ANARCHOSYNDICALISM: LATEST SPANISH GENERAL STRIKE A HUGE SUCCESS: March 29th saw a one day general strike in Spain that eclipsed previous general strikes in magnitude if one is to judge by the drop in energy consumption, often the best way of estimating the impact of general strikes on the
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-02-20 20:26:00
CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT: DEADLINE FOR MONTRÉAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR EXTENDED: It’s coming up, the largest event of its kind in North America, the Montréal Anarchist Bookfair. As per what follows the deadline for proposals has been extended. ********************* ATTENTION: Date limite repoussée pour les propositions d’ateliers, de films et d’œuvres d’art
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-01-28 23:46:00
ANARCHIST THEORY: DIFFERENT SORTS OF FREEDOM: My dear mother, God rest her soul, used to regale me with stories of the most stupid family in the patch of geography where she grew up. She was born near Simferopal Crimea and grew up in northwest Saskatchewan where you could go 200
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-01-28 15:45:00
TODAY IN HISTORY: CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY JOSE MARTI BORN: On this day in 1853 Cuban revolutionary José Marti was born. An early advocate of both independence from Spain and resistance to the imperialist designs of the USA, Marti advocated a socialism that while still statist was considerably more libertarian than what
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2012-01-22 17:47:00
CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:MONTRÉAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR CALLOUT……………….. The ever popular Montréal Anarchist Bookfair will be coming up on May 19 1nd 20 this year. This is the biggest and possibly the best anarchist gathering in North America, and if you can travel at all this is one event to attend. Here`s
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-12-24 16:06:00
INTERNATIONAL ANARCHISM: SOLIDARITY WITH INDONESIAN PUNKS: In the countries where anarchism is a tradition the idea of “anarchist subcultures” is definitely a peripheral matter. Even in countries where anarchism is not a large tradition but where historical memory has been preserved anarchists are well into moving beyond subcultures. But in
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Book Review: Suffled How it Gush: A North American Anarchist in the Balkans
“I think Hannah Arendt did say somewhere in The Origins of Totalitarianism that the thesis of the modern state is: ‘Everyone should die.’” –Suffled How it Gush (pg. 74) I have joked with my partner that I have a certain amount of angst regarding my future as any sort of
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-12-11 02:07:00
PERSONAL MOLLY DEBATES THE INSANE Most of Molly’s “action” is now over at her Facebook site. Over there there is an interesting “debate” if you can call it such. The substance concerens the “torching” of a cop car by supposed anarchists at a recent demonstration about the rigged Russian election.
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-11-30 22:34:00
PERSONAL: WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART 4: As the various Occupy camps fall one after another (a proof of the need for organization ?) to the various authorities it is perhaps about time to reflect on why these protests have gathered the sort of support that “the
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-11-03 14:07:00
PERSONALWHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART 3As I’ve mentioned before, both here and on my Facebook page, the very fact that the movement has refused to set up a list of demands to the power elite is a source of strength not weakness. What the O…
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-10-28 21:54:00
PERSONALWHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT (PART 2):The first part of this series was published over at my Facebook page a little while ago. Yet a movement such as the ‘Occupy’ protests deserves far more than one comment. There is little doubt that …
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Farcical Aquatic Ceremonies: Canadian “Democracy” and (not) You!
So, Ontario, Canada’s most unbearably self-righteous Province, just concluded another one of those spiffy “election” things everyone is getting so worked up over these days. As of this writing, it’s still not entirely clear just how low the voter turnout was but it seems to be definitely below 50%—the lowest in Provincial history. The McGuinty Liberals […]
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-09-18 22:13:00
PERSONAL:GROWING UP WITHOUT THE STATE:It’s been many many years since I left my old home town. 48 if I count right. I left it at precisely the right time, when I was turning 13. Enough of “being one with nature”. Time to get into some serious trouble. …
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-07-06 22:20:00
AS I SEE IT:PSEUDO RADICAL BABBLE:I’ve been at this game (leftism) for over 40 years now, and I certainly have accumulated a scrapbook full of “stupid things lefties believe and do”. Back in those deep dark days of my youth a lot of the smellier bullsh…
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