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Glasgow Autonomous Project

GAP | 18.10.2003 13:39

Glasgow Autonomous Project will be meeting up and screening Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine at the Halt Bar (lounge) Woodlands Rd Glasgow, at 8pm on Monday 20th November.

We are a clutch of anarchists in the Glasgow area, organising events with the ultimate aim of establishing an anarchist/autonomous centre.

It is a travesty that a city with a radical tradition as rich as Glasgow's has no permanent anarchist base of operations.

An Anarchist centre would inevitably mean a greater prescence in our communities, acting as a social centre, meeting place and hub for distribution of resources and propaganda.

Having a focal-point for activists, we could elicit greater co-ordination within the Glaswegian libertarian fraternity and encourage the planning of more *ahem* 'immediate' resistance, if you catch my drift.

With the increasing marginalisation of anarchists in the growing anti-capital movement, we cannot lie idle and watch our voice atrophy due to the monopolistic actions of certain parties. We must debunk the misconception that Anarchists are 'unable to organise a piss-up in a brewery' and show that with co-operation and solidarity, we can bring together our disparate community and forge the basis of a more powerful, progressive movement in our city.

Meetings are now taking place every second Monday at 7:30pm in Mono, 12 Kings Court, King Street in the city centre, just across from the 13th Note Cafe.

**The next meeting is taking place on Monday the 27th of October.

GAP
- e-mail: autonomy@nocog.org
- Homepage: http://www.nocog.org/~autonomy


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Glad to see you guys getting organised but

20.10.2003 10:48

Any chance you could manage a whole post without attacking the rest of the left?

Sonic


not an attack

20.10.2003 13:42

GAP are merely putting forward the viewpoint that it is impossible to organise along anarchist lines within any centralised, authoritarian political party, and that non-hierachical, anti-authoritarian organisation is essential in the struggle for the creation of a society based on voluntary co-operation and mutual aid. Not exactly a new idea, I know, but neither, I think, is it an attack on the rest of the left.



michael c


Er

20.10.2003 13:58

What he said was:

"With the increasing marginalisation of anarchists in the growing anti-capital movement, we cannot lie idle and watch our voice atrophy due to the monopolistic actions of certain parties"


As I said good luck to them, but perhaps they should consider working with other anti-caps in Scotland (both inside and outside the SSP) rather more than they have in the past.

Sonic


Aww

25.10.2003 14:13

Poor Sonic, sounds like you have a bit of a persecution complex, given that the SSP weren't explicity mentioned at any point. (Except by yourself).

Though, having said that, the recent SSP conference did have a workshop on "Anarchism, Autonomy and the Global Justice Movement". The jist of said workshop, which was attended by several curious anarchists, appeared to be that autonomous, horizontal organisation is never valid. State capitalism is apparently the only way, brothers and sisters!

NB. The workshop was given by that famously non-party-affiliated group, Globalise Resistance.

autonomista


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