UK Analysis Newswire Archive
USA: Government shutdown - Again!
06-10-2013 18:41
The recent shutdown of some government services in the USA are a symptom of the current crisis of the capitalist mode of production. This articles considers the underlying causes and the implications of of these for other parts of the world.UG#665 - Living In An Age Of Political Paralysis (The World According To Hedges)
05-10-2013 02:58
Want to fight the cuts? Passive protests are not enough!
03-10-2013 11:54
Full text and pdf here:
https://theviolentminority.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/want-to-fight-the-cuts-passive-protests-arent-enough/ Rapprochement with US Reinforces Iran Hand in Iraq
03-10-2013 07:09
The US – led military invasion of Iraq in 2003 pragmatically but counterproductively made the best use of the Iranian vengeance, which was in the waiting for whatever window of opportunity might open to revenge the ceasefire in the eight – year Iran – Iraq war, which the late leader and founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, lamented as “gulping the cup of poison.”Anarchy vs. Chaos: An Introduction to Anarchism
30-09-2013 14:57
A series of short presentations and discussion in Bath this Saturday, examining the relevance of anarchism in modern BritainUG#664 -The Bloodstained Laundry Of Capitalism(&The Coming Revolt Of The Guards)
29-09-2013 07:36
Informal Anarchist Federation or Intelligence Dirty Tricks To Infiltrate Squats?
28-09-2013 09:53
Is Rafael Correa the Haile Selassie of Ayahuasca?
26-09-2013 20:04
The dying empire that has threatened to take the rest of us with it now is in a horrifying condition: In its desperate grasp to continue as if nothing had happened, the hemorrhaging regime is trying to play over mutiny in its inner circles with increased harassment of opponents and allies alike. From a diagnostic point of view, its predictable reaction against the rapid erosion of its imperialist delusion is expressing a monstrously enlarged reproduction of its deepest inner contradictions: Its present incapability to cease its spying even as it becomes a threat to its existence is resulting from the same self-destructive impulse that brought it to this irrational behaviour in the first place. The deceptive assumption that the truth about such crime could be repressed forever has not only enabled its perpetration but now is also fueling the illusion it could be forgiven without even being ceded. At the same time it becomes increasingly difficult to deny that the so-called “democratic project”, as its false idealism describes itself, is headed to end up on the wrong side of history, while no human thought can predict how much more destruction it might pile up before being spent there. In such a situation it makes sense to cease following the narrative details of its death spasm and instead look at what could be offering itself as an alternative. Hence this text.Me, Gilad Atzmon and the'Truth'
26-09-2013 13:00
Housekeeping: This article is by an IMCista. It does not easily fit the Indymedia uk guidelines, but we did discuss it as a collective, and agreed it could be posted. I have put much thinking into its writing, and I am clearly identifiable as a result of putting so much of myself into it. It will make some people very uncomfortable and it is likely to generate some hostile responses and trolling. If people choose to troll or attack anonymously, they should expect their posts to be hidden. If people are disrespectful they should expect the same.
____________________________________________________Whilst thinking about the issues in this article, I also discussed it with some people. One person noted in a discussion that:
Feeling that you are set apart by historical experiences and by a sacred text can allow for that defensive feeling to seem justified.
It isn't a big step from realising that to realising that:
Understanding that you are set aside by historical experiences and by a sacred text can allow for that defensive feeling to be overcome.
I thank them for that, and ask that you think about this whilst trying to understand the points I have struggled to express here.
This piece could also have been called "We need to talk about (and with) Gilad."
Killing in the name of God.
25-09-2013 17:08
The recent assassination of shoppers in Kenya is just the latest in a growing list of killing in the name of religion and god. This article considers the problems this creates and the ideological tap-roots of this ancient textual prejudice and sectarian practice.UG#663 - Geoengineering for Fun and Profit (One Technofix To Rule Them All?)
24-09-2013 15:35
UG#662 - Leaving The Cave of Media Shadows (Transcending The Paltry Ego...)
23-09-2013 02:22
Rules of Engagement: Anti-Fascism After Tower Hamlets
22-09-2013 02:37
Katsiaficas/Geronimo at Cowley Club - Oct16
20-09-2013 18:06
To celebrate the recent release of Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 2 (PM Press) George Katsiaficas and Geronimo will be speaking at several events in the UK (including the Anarchist Bookfair in London). They will discuss the Asian Wave from 1986-1992 which overthrew 8 dictatorships in 6 years, the 1980s German autonomous scene and discuss what links can be made to current uprisings, rebellions and revolutions.
Robotics and the real (sorry, Karl, you got it wrong) final crisis of capitalism
17-09-2013 16:56
Robotics is advancing rapidly. Probably within the lifetime of most people now living – and conceivably within the next ten years – there will be general purpose robots (GPRs) capable of doing the vast majority of the work now undertaken by human beings. When that happens international free trade and free market economics even within a closed domestic market will become untenable. The final crisis of capitalism will be the development of technology so advanced that it makes capitalism in the Marxist sense impossible because machines make humans redundant.Brighton talk by anarchist writer
12-09-2013 09:45
The Shortest Path to Peace in Syria
12-09-2013 05:32
Israel, protected by what President Barak Obama repeatedly describe as the “unshakable” support of the United States, is still maintaining its military occupation of the Golan as a “bargaining chip” to enforce upon Syria, irrespective of the regime and who is ruling in Damascus, the fait accompli which was created forcefully by the creation of the State of Israel in Palestine in 1948.Class War 01/2013: Riots on Swedish suburbs – We are all hooligans, we are the m
07-09-2013 17:42
Following text is from new issue of Class War, our new communist bulletin. The bulletin also includes updated Programmatical positions of Class War. Download as PDF. http://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/class-war-012013-riots-on-swedish-suburbs-we-are-all-hooligans-we-are-the-mob-lets-destroy-this-capitalist-society-of-misery/ http://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/wp-content/uploads/class_war_01-2013-en.pdf
The War on Syria and Noam Chomsky
05-09-2013 10:39
A careful reading of the “Left” liberals’ response to the Western-backed terror in Syria, reveals that the “Left” liberals have display a staggering level of complacency, complicity and outright hostility to the Syrian people. Representatives of the milieu of the “Left” liberals led by the like of Noam Chomsky have lost credibility. Their arguments are part of the standard propaganda talking points that serve Israel-U.S. Zionist ideology.Jordan Invites US Targets for Syrian Retaliation
04-09-2013 13:26
Centcom’s Forward Command in Jordan, officially called Centcom Forward-Jordan (CFJ), remains the oldest and the most important US target for Syrian retaliation.