Το Νόημα του Αναρχισμού: Συζητώντας τη βιβλιογραφία* - Ελληνική μετάφραση του Πρώτου Κεφαλαίου του βιβλίου των Lucien van der Walt και Michael Schmidt “Black Flame – The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism”

* Αποσπάσματα από το δίτομο έργο «Μαύρη Φλόγα» (υπό έκδοση). Mετάφραση, επιμέλεια: Κωστής ... read full story / add a comment

Το Νόημα του Αναρχισμού: Συζητώντας τη βιβλιογραφία* - Ελληνική μετάφραση του Πρώτου Κεφαλαίου του βιβλίου των Lucien van der Walt και Michael Schmidt “Black Flame – The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism”
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Το Νόημα του Αναρχισμού: Συζητώντας τη βιβλιογραφία* - Ελληνική μετάφραση του Πρώτου Κεφαλαίου του βιβλίου των Lucien van der Walt και Michael Schmidt “Black Flame – The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism” ... read full story / add a comment

Το Νόημα του Αναρχισμού: Συζητώντας τη βιβλιογραφία* - Ελληνική μετάφραση του Πρώτου Κεφαλαίου του βιβλίου των Lucien van der Walt και Michael Schmidt “Black Flame – The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism” ... read full story / add a comment

Το Νόημα του Αναρχισμού: Συζητώντας τη βιβλιογραφία* - Ελληνική μετάφραση του Πρώτου Κεφαλαίου του βιβλίου των Lucien van der Walt και Michael Schmidt “Black Flame – The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism” ... read full story / add a comment

Riflessioni sul libro di Maia Ramnath, Decolonizing Anarchism: an Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle (AK Press, USA 2012) e sul suo altro lavoro Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire (California World History Library, USA 2011) - a cura di Michael Schmidt, membro fondatore del Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) del Sud Africa, coautore con Lucien van der Walt del libro Black Flame: the Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, Counter-power Vol.1 (AK Press, USA, 2009), ed autore di Cartographie de l'anarchisme révolutionnaire (Lux Éditeur, Canada, 2012). Questo brano è stato gentilmente rivisto da van der Walt. [English] ... read full story / add a comment

Meditations on Maia Ramnath’s Decolonizing Anarchism: an Antiauthoritarian History of India’s Liberation Struggle (AK Press, USA, 2012) and her Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire (California World History Library, USA, 2011) – by Michael Schmidt, founder member of the Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) of South Africa, co-author with Lucien van der Walt of Black Flame: the Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism, Counter-power Vol.1 (AK Press, USA, 2009), and author of Cartographie de l’anarchisme révolutionnaire (Lux Éditeur, Canada, 2012). This piece was kindly edited by van der Walt. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment

Le premier tour des élections françaises se tiendra le 22 avril prochain. On s’attend que le candidat socialiste François Hollande prenne le dessus sur le président gaulliste sortant Nicolas Sarkozy, sans obtenir toutefois de majorité préparant le décor à une fuite de capitaux en mai. [English] ... read full story / add a comment

The first round of French presidential elections will take place on 22 April. Socialist candidate François Hollande is expected to have the edge on incumbent Gaullist President Nicolas Sarkozy, but will likely not earn a majority, which would then set the scene for a run-off in May. But behind the scenes, few French voters are aware of the half-century-long secret system of la valise, “the suitcase” system whereby African dictators send millions of francs to corrupt the European political process - by literally buying the French Presidency. [Français] ... read full story / add a comment

This is the text of a talk given by Michael Schmidt, co-author with Lucien van der Walt of the book Black Flame: the Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (AK Press, USA, 2009), at the DIRA bookstore in Montréal, Canada, on 18 March 2010, as part of his Black Flame tour of Canada. Thanks to Marie-Eve Lamy of Lux Éditeur, Montréal, for the transcription. ... read full story / add a comment

US President Barack Obama’s military regime (for as commander-in-chief of the world’s largest military machine, his is not merely a mild “administration”), has proven once again that when it comes to American imperialism’s dealing with the darker majority of humanity, having a black man in the Oval Office simply doesn’t matter. ... read full story / add a comment

This study of recent anti-imperialist resistance in Kurdistan, looking back to the anarchist resistance in the Ottoman heartland in the period before the formation of the Turkish state, consists of extracts – kindly proof-read in part by Will Firth – from the forthcoming book by Schmidt & van der Walt, Global Fire: 150 Fighting Years of International Anarchism & Syndicalism, Counter-power Vol.2, AK Press, USA, scheduled for release in about 2011. ... read full story / add a comment

A comienzos del siglo XX, el anarquismo se convirtió en un movimiento de masas en Checoslovaquia, Hungría y Polonia – los anarquistas ya habían participado en los levantamientos de Bosnia-Herzegovina contra el dominio Austro-Húngaro. Sin embargo, fue principalmente en Bulgaria y en su vecina Macedonia donde tuvo lugar un notable caso de organización anarquisa, en medio del juego de poder entre las grandes potencias. Este movimiento, escasamente estudiado, no sólo se desangró en luchas de liberación nacional y oposición armada contra el fascismo y el estalinismo, sino que desarrolló un movimiento de masas diverso y resistente, el primero que adoptó la controvertida Plataforma de 1926 de los makhnovistas ucranianos exiliados en París [2] como su marca. Por estas razones es vital que el movimiento comunista libertario revivido en el nuevo milenio reexamine el legado de los Balcanes. Este artículo, que comienza hacia 1919, es una versión de un extracto de la obra de dos volúmenes sobre anarquismo y sindicalismo, contrapoder, co-escrita por Lucien van der Walt, una historia y teoría global sobre el movimiento, que fue publicada por AK Press en los EE.UU. en 2008. [Italiano] [Ελληνικά] [English] ... read full story / add a comment

* Το κείμενο αυτό γράφτηκε από τους Lucien Van Der Walt και Michael Schmidt, μελών του νοτιοαφρικάνικου Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF – Αναρχικό Κομμουνιστικό Μέτωπο Zabalaza) και συγγραφέων του βιβλίου “Black Flame – The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism” (Volume I) AK Press 2009. Δημοσιεύτηκε στο ομώνυμο περιοδικό Zabalaza. Ελληνική μετάφραση “Ούτε Θεός-Ούτε Αφέντης”, Ιούνης 2009.
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Εισαγωγή των συγγραφέων του βιβλίου “Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism”. ... read full story / add a comment

Του Michael Schmidt (ZACF, Νότια Αφρική) με τη βοήθεια του Jack Grancharoff, (1) βετεράνου Βούλγαρου αναρχικού. Διορθώσεις και επιμέλεια στην αγγλική γλώσσα Will Firth. Ελληνική μετάφραση «ούτε θεός-ούτε αφέντης», Αύγουστος 2008. ... read full story / add a comment

Του Michael Schmidt (ZACF, Νότια Αφρική) με τη βοήθεια του Jack Grancharoff, (1) βετεράνου Βούλγαρου αναρχικού. Διορθώσεις και επιμέλεια στην αγγλική γλώσσα Will Firth. Ελληνική μετάφραση «ούτε θεός-ούτε αφέντης», Αύγουστος 2008. ... read full story / add a comment

Agli inizi del XX secolo, l'anarchismo si configurava come un movimento di massa organizzato in Cecoslovacchia, Ungheria e Polonia; del resto gli anarchici erano già stati protagonisti nell'insurrezione del 1873 in Bosnia-Erzegovina contro il potere austro-ungarico. Ma fu in Bulgaria e nella vicina Macedonia che si sviluppò la prima e notevole esperienza di anarchismo organizzato, nel bel mezzo del gioco di potere tra le grandi potenze dell'epoca. Questo movimento ben poco studiato non solo diede il suo contributo di sangue nelle lotte di liberazione nazionale e nell'opposizione armata sia al fascismo che allo stalinismo, ma si sviluppò come movimento di massa diverso e resistente, e fu il primo ad adottare come prima pietra di fondazione la tanto dibattuta Piattaforma del 1926 edita dai makhnovisti ucraini esuli a Parigi. Per queste ragioni è di vitale importanza che il rinato movimento comunista anarchico nel nuovo millennio si confronti con l'eredità dei Balcani. Questo articolo, che prende le mosse dal 1919, è un estratto dal volume in due tomi sull'anarchismo e sul sindacalismo, "Counter-Power" [contropotere], scritto da me con Lucien van der Walt, una sorta di storia globale e di teoria del movimento che sta per uscire entro l'anno negli USA per i tipi delle edizioni AK Press. ... read full story / add a comment

Michael Schmidt , now the ZACF's international secretary, travelled to Chiapas for the San Andres peace accords with the Zapatistas in early 1996 as a delegate for the now-defunct Durban Anarchist Federation, then headed south to witness the closing phases of the Guatemalan Civil War. Here are his recollections of Guatemala, written in 2003. ... read full story / add a comment

Le Sud-Africain Michael Schmidt, de la Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (ZACF), a récemment voyagé au Darfour, cette région du Soudan ravagée par une atroce guerre civile. Malgré une large couverture médiatique, la compréhension de ce conflit est parasitée par la propagande des grandes puissances qui ont des intérêts stratégiques dans la région. Un point de vue depuis le front. ... read full story / add a comment