For next week: 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

Hey everyone--

On Sunday we decided to focus on native people's resistance for the next discussion group (Sunday 10/9 at 7:30pm), since it's the day before Columbus Day. I've made 12 copies of the pamphlet "500 Years of Indigenous Resistance" by Gord Hill--they're in a folder hanging on the outside of Libertalia's door! You can also read it online at http://www.dickshovel.com/500.html, or download on your own at http://zinelibrary.info/files//500years.pdf [PDF]

It's about 50 (small) pages, so read what you can. There's also a graphic novel adaptation, "The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book," by the same author, which I'll try to find a copy of to make available.

Do you know of another good article, zine, book, or video clip that's worth sharing before the next discussion? Share it here!

--chris

France 1968 reading now available

Hey everyone, I just made 12 copies of the (hefty!) pamphlet "Worker-Student Action Committees." They're hanging in a janky envelope below Libertalia's mailbox, right next to the door. Come pick one up (or, if you prefer, you can find it online) & read it for our next discussion, Sunday Oct. 2.

-- chris

Podcast on Workers' Control

I just listened to this interesting interview from Pacifica Radio's "Against the Grain" with labor historian Immanuel Ness -- here's the description from their website:

What happens when those who work for others decide to take their collective destinies into their own hands and manage themselves? That's a question workers around the world have answered in different forms over the 140 years since the Paris Commune. Scholar and activist Immanuel Ness discusses the history, across time and place, of workers' control and workers' councils.

(download)

It includes helpful (for me) historical context about the Spanish Revolution/Civil War, Paris Commune, and others, and Ness talks about what constitutes workers' self-management and people's assemblies, and about the pros and cons of different partial approaches, like bureaucratic unions, western European-style social democracy, and worker-owned cooperatives under contemporary capitalism.

If you have a chance, put it on while making dinner or something !

--chris

Worker-Student Action Committees / France May 1968

Here are a few online versions of this important historical text and analysis of Mai '68:

http://libcom.org/library/worker-student-action-committees-france-1968-perlman-gregoire

http://zinelibrary.info/worker-student-action-committees-france-may-1968-fredy-perlman-and-roger-gregoire

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Roger_Gregoire___Fredy_Perlman__Worker-Student_Action_Committees._France_May__68.html

25 Years On The Move

Here's a PDF of the first reading we're doing for next week's class, September 25 at 7:30pm.

"25 Years on the MOVE"
Download here or from http://zinelibrary.info/25-years-move

UPDATE: it seems that the pages are all out of order in this PDF since it's "imposed for printing." You can read the full text online at http://www.angelfire.com/ga/dregeye/move.html — or, come pick up a printed copy at Libertalia.

Click here to download:

25yearsonthemove.pdf (11 MB)