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Anarchy on the Airwaves

Martyn | 10.07.2005 11:49

First of a two-part programme on BBC Radio 4 tonight

Tonight at 22:45 hrs. as part of the "Westminster Hour" there is the first of a two-part programme:

Whatever Happened to Anarchism?

The programme blurb is as follows:

1/2. Earlier anarchist thinkers could never have imagined that the powerful nation states they hated so much would be undermined not by popular revolt, but by global corporatism.

Twenty years ago, covering an anarchist conference in Venice, journalist Wayne Brittenden became fascinated with the diversity of delegates - from Spanish Civil War veterans to squatters, ivy league professors and punk rockers. He reflects on this extraordinary event and on the heyday and potential fate of a largely forgotten political movement.
[Rptd next Wednesday at 20.45 hrs] If you miss it you can listen to it online at the BBCs "listen again" page for the next few days.

Not "forgotten" just written out of official history

Martyn

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Re: "largely forgotten political movement"

10.07.2005 20:53

Forgotten???

Only by people who CHOOSE to forget and people who are WILLINGLY BLIND!

Anarchism is at the very heart of the global resistance movement which rose to prominence in Seattle 1999.

Seattle, Genoa, several Maydays, the list goes on. Anyone who hasn't noticed anarchism has made a very deliberate choice not to notice it!!

mcw


Natural systems r us

10.07.2005 23:53

Not forgetting tribes and cultures all over the world since time in memorium practising without labels many forms of primitive communistic cum anarchistic lifestyles.
We depend on it
No surrender
Viva primitive anarque revolucion

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