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—Claire Fontaine. Human Strike and the Art of Creating Freedom. semiotext(e) 2020.
Lefties, radicals etc and that are weirdly quiet about the angry brigade. But they were very good IMO. They empowered the working class like those in Liverpool to take action against capitalism and the state. It's the kind of thing everyone says they want now but doesn't actually happen
We read on the front page of a fairly recent issue of Freedom, "Even the bombing campaign carried out by the Angry Brigade which was technically brilliant...achieved absolutely nothing because, in direct contradiction with their spoken ideals, they were trying to act as an elite vanguard leaving ordinary people as passive spectators of their actions. Far from this resulting in an 'awakening' of 'the masses' it resulted in a fear of anarchism and anarchist ideas which has significantly contributed to our current impotence."
This is so fucking stupid. Don't they know that
“Whoever has a slight knowledge of history and a fairly clear head knows perfectly well from the beginning that theoretical propaganda for revolution will necessarily express itself in action long before the theoreticians have decided that the moment to act has come. Nevertheless, the cautious theoreticians are angry at these madmen, they excommunicate them, they anathematize them. But the madmen win sympathy, the mass of the people secretly applaud their courage, and they find imitators. In proportion as the pioneers go to fill the jails and the penal colonies, others continue their work; acts of illegal protest, of revolt, of vengeance, multiply.”
— Pyotr Kropotkin, The Spirit of Revolt (1880)
And that
In fact, when individualists single out and strike the class enemy they are sometimes far ahead of the most combative of the class components of the time, and their action is not understood. On the contrary, those who support the need for a permanent organization often wait until there is already a considerable number of exploited indicating how and when to strike the class enemy. The former carry out actions that turn out to be too far ahead of the level of the struggle, the latter too far behind.
–Jean Weir, "Insurrectionary Organization" (1988); compiled in "Insurrectionary Anarchism: A Reader" (2019) by Ill Will Press.
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Yes, I think that's exactly the point it's trying to make, but the secontiion you quoted is highlighting that even the prevalent UK anarchist paper at the time wouldn't acknowledge it
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well good!
"As we can see, the old preoccupation persists: that of protecting the movement (especially the anarchist one) from the 'adventurists'. In fact the movement of the exploited is not and never has been one monolithic mass, all acting together with the same level of awareness. The struggle against capital has from the beginning been characterised by a dichotomy between the official workers' movement on the one hand, with its various organisations -- parties, unions, etc, channelling dissent into a manageable form of quantitive mediation with the bosses. And on the other hand, the often less visible movement of `uncontrollables' who emerge from time to time in explicit organisational forms, but who often remain anonymous, responding at individual level by sabotage, expropriation, attacks on property, etc, in the irrecuperable logic of insurrection." - the literal next paragraph from the one you quoted :P
Here’s a World In Action documentary on the Angry Brigade.
The docu is class, everyone should watch it
... maybe if we listened in 19 fucking 72 we wouldn't be talking about Joe Biden or Kier Starmer as leaders of the "organised left"
#this#this is what i'm talking about#ftp#acab#insurrection#insurrectionary anarchism#anarchy#anarchism#the angry brigade#make radicals extremists again#let the know-it-alls theorize our every move all they want#they need us for their damned essays anyway#social war#class war#vengeance#to watch later#quotes
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there are no words left to say here in the face of resurgent fascism and ecological collapse
either we fight and overwhelm our enemies, or they conquer us and bring their nightmare to life
(First paragraph from "A Murder of Crows #1")
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Anarcho/Surrealist/Insurrectionary/Feminist Collective Melbourne June 1973
The 1973 AS IF manifesto can be found in printable/readable zine format here:
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The Battle of Algiers 1966
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Jasper County, Missouri, 1861
This uprising occurred five months into the Civil War and within two weeks of General Frémont’s proclamation. Though the proclamation freed any Missouri slaves whose masters were loyal to the Confederacy, Lincoln quickly recalled Frémont and cancelled the emancipation. When Lincoln issued his own Emancipation Proclamation sixteen months later, Missouri slaves were amongst the 500,000 slaves kept in chains by it.
Good reasons to proudly reclaim the terms "white trash", "redneck", & even "ragamuffin". (Taken from "Dixie be Damned - 300 years of insurrection in the American South")
Got some posters, some zines, and a book, at a "book tour" for the book in the picture, today.