The Black Hand
Unclean
Called PRAXIS - they sound like the type of people I like
News here;
http://libcom.org/forums/organise/new-anarchist-organisation
News here;
http://libcom.org/forums/organise/new-anarchist-organisation
A New Anarchist Organisation
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glenquagmire
Rightwing NuLab apologist
Hooray, another one!
JHE
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Where do this bunch of praxis stand on the great issues of the day?
- fox welfare (promotion of)
- parking meters (smashing of)
- international brigade of 'anarchists' to join Hezbollah (dreaming of)
- theoretico-terminological anarcho-criminowotsical praxical guffage (production of)
- Attica's new magazine (deciding on name for)
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
This is just the local platformist org that's been threatening to be born north of the border for months and months isn't it?. Have you dropped you hostility to verbatim regurgitation of the platform now then attiaca?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
torres said:
It is indeed. The WSM's reverse colonisation scheme continues apace. Really shit name though.
northernhord
Active Member
Aye, another one.
The Black Hand
Unclean
I like Praxis I just wish there were some who practiced it and I hope the name is a sign of great things to come.
do they bomb parking meters, instead of just smashing them?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
The problem with it as a name is that it is a piece of obscure jargon. A great piece of obscure jargon, sure, but still obscure jargon. The vast majority of people they encounter won't know what it means, so they might as well have called themselves something like Veola or Capita.
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
tell me about the anarchist splits you can think of...Belushi said:
the button
out on the kocker
The DAM/ORA thing is the only one I can think of, but that was a case of a minority leaving, rather than a split proper. Although I think it was experienced as a split in London because that was where the majority of the ORA came from.Taxamo Welf said:
TremulousTetra
prismatic universe
PRAXIS! Doh!
lights.out.london
Black Flag
Nice name.
But...
..may have a point.
But...
JHE said:
..may have a point.
Bob_the_lost
Elsewhere
Didn't they make Monsters Inc?
Taxamo Welf
kebagels pls
exactly.the button said:
Another muppet going 'hur hur people's front of judea hur hur' just cos someone has formed a political group - especially rich from a Communist.
JHE
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Class War split, didn't it?
The most famous anarchist organisation in the world, the CNT, split.
Still, I guess if we're talking about small would-be revolutionary groups in this country, the general pattern is that Leninists split (or expel each other), while anarchist groups just disintegrate.
The most famous anarchist organisation in the world, the CNT, split.
Still, I guess if we're talking about small would-be revolutionary groups in this country, the general pattern is that Leninists split (or expel each other), while anarchist groups just disintegrate.
The Black Hand
Unclean
JHE said:
Yes, the famous anarchist theorist Woodcock said all this 3 and more decades ago, and the beauty of anarchism is that it constantly regenerates itself throughout history, and not just the last 50 years.
True - Any anarchist group which has been succesful splits in some way and fades away. Those that do not know what the experience of success feels like cannot drop from their HIGH, and therefore do not experience the pressure of trying to build success again, and thus different views of the way forward are the basis of successive splits and disintegration. Certainly that has happenend to CW.
The Black Hand
Unclean
JHE said:
They are your great issues JHE. Not mine. This is oh so very repetitive, and I would like some real discussion for a change. That appears to be my only dream...
lights.out.london
Black Flag
Attica said:
Ok. Class War. 'Successful'? How so? By what measure 'succesful'? What did CW achieve?
**I'll probably regret asking, but there you have it
**Steve Booth
Bourgeois apologist
Blagsta said:
The idea of an anarchist family tree diagram is brilliant, how far does it go back?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
lightsoutlondon said:Ok. Class War. 'Successful'? How so? By what measure 'succesful'? What did CW achieve?
**I'll probably regret asking, but there you have it
They put class back on the agenda for a lot of people who thought the liberals the hippies were going to run things on the left forever and ever. That's a good starting point - albiet one that it should not have been needed to make.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Steve Booth said:
85. Has your lot in a box and that's it.
The Black Hand
Unclean
lightsoutlondon said:Ok. Class War. 'Successful'? How so? By what measure 'succesful'? What did CW achieve?
**I'll probably regret asking, but there you have it
1. Put Class War anarchism on the map/ in the news. It took anarchism out of the ghetto before and after the poll tax, and people bought Class War from many different newsagents (I should know I was stocking them for a while in Hackney - 200 per issue).
2. Contributed to many different struggles.
3. Developed theory of its own - articles such as "What do we do when the cops fuck off" published after some mid 1980s riots. When dual power was an interesting possibility and when there were real communities of resistance.
There's more too, l8r.
Fisher_Gate
Active Member
JHE said:
When I was at University (briefly), the Anarchist Association overspent their budget from the students union and had to disband ....
.... so they were reborn as the Revolutionary Anarchist Club ....
(think acronyms ...)
The Black Hand
Unclean
torres said:
Latest news from a Glasgow meeting - they appear to have a good national spread, and have a 'launch' type meeting on August 4th in Glasgow. And no, they will be doing 'no verbatim regurgitation of the platform' even though some maybe fond of emphasising platformism as a starting point. Their starting point is very good - a critique of the existing poor organisations, and from what I know of the people involved it will be the best organisation in Britain in no time at all.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
What do you mean by national spread? Have a you a link to this latest news? Are you trying to join? Is it not just for local people in one scottish town any more then?
The Black Hand
Unclean
torres said:
Have you really no imagination? Are you getting organisationally scared?
Here's a titbit for you - they have people in the south, centre and north of England, and Scotland, that I am aware of. There could be more... It is going to be a national organisation...
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