Published in Weekly Worker, 14 November 2013
It’s class war! For a revolutionary perspective!” screamed the flyer in graffiti-styled letters set against a mural background, promoting a joint event between the Assoziation Dämmerung and our CPGB delegation to Hamburg. As the aesthetic sense suggests, the Assoziation Dämmerung emerged from what is known as Germany’slinke Szene, the subcultural radical left milieu steeped in autonomism, squatting and Black Bloc tactics – in this particular case, the association’s beginnings go back to a militant animal rights group founded as Tierrechtsaktion Nord in the 1980s. Continue reading ‘German school: Emerging from autonomism’
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Tags: animal liberation, Assoziation Dämmerung, Autonome, autonomism, cpgb, critical theory, Die Linke, DKP, proletariat
Kernel of truth
Jack Conrad regrets in the CPGB podcast on ‘SWP rebellion and feminism’ that he has “not heard of any feminist movement raising radical demands for working class women”. If that is true, how thorough was his research? There exist socialist and Marxists feminisms, to name but two schools which speak of class almost incessantly. Even the post-Marxist cultural studies variety cannot do without taking into account ‘class’ – or whatever it thinks constitutes class – as a key analytic component. Continue reading ‘Kernel of truth’
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Otto Bauer and Austromarxism
I will be translating a political biography of Otto Bauer and the Austromarxist movement for Brill Publishers’ Historical Materialism series. The book will be published in 2015.
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Tags: Austromarxism, Otto Bauer, SDAP, Second-and-a-Half International, translation, workers' movement
Disappointing anti-fascism
A comment I left on the Who Makes The Nazis blog.
I’m a little disappointed that my article, “Of Runes and Men“, which you reposted from Red Mist a year ago did not stimulate any substantial discussion. Instead, we’re back to business as usual: musicians and their far right links and sentiments are listed, and the notion is put forward that their gigs must be stopped – including in cooperation with councillors, clerics, and the like. Continue reading ‘Disappointing anti-fascism’
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Tags: anti-fascism, Death in June, love music hate racism, neofolk, Who Makes The Nazis
Published in Weekly Worker, 8 November 2012
There can be no annual Marxist school without a session on the far right and that was the case with Socialism 2012. But, credit where credit is due, the Socialist Party in England and Wales does not treat the subject as an easy recipe to stir up emotions, conjure up apocalyptic visions and cohere the troops around an easy target. Unlike the SWP’s, its treatment of the English Defence League is not only remarkably sober: it acknowledges that it is a social question rather than just one of physical threat. Continue reading ‘Socialist Party: Labourism v Fascism’
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Tags: anti-fascism, English Defence League, fascism, Keynesianism, Labourism, nationalism, Socialism 2012, socialist party, SPEW
Drawing the line
In his comments (Letters, October 11) on my article in the Weekly Worker (‘Not part of the left’, October 4), Chris Cutrone of the Platypus group asserts that, “for good or ill”, the ‘anti-Germans’ must be considered “part of the global left”. A strange declaration, seeing as neither the German left nor the hard-core anti-Germans themselves share this view. Continue reading ‘Drawing the line’
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Tags: Anti-Germans, Antideutsche, Chris Cutrone, Platypus
