At The Cafe
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Members of the Anarchist Communist Group (ACG) sit down to discuss current events through an anarchist lens, aiming to demystify anarchist theory and ideas in the process.
At The Cafe
2w ago
We are going through an unprecedented time of human history, in which even the future of the planet is at stake. This was not inevitable. It is the result of the systems that have been brutally imposed by a ruling elite, including colonial expansion and imperialism, which gave rise to global capitalism. This system as spread to every corner of the world, bringing with it exploitation, oppression, wars and environmental disaster.
We believe that only anarchist communism can save the day. The ruling class is desperate to make us think that the serious issues we are facing can be resolved within ..read more
At The Cafe
9M ago
This is a complete and unedited recording of a public discussion meeting held in June 2022 by the ACG on the cost of living ..read more
At The Cafe
9M ago
This is a podcast of our pamphlet Land and Liberty- arguing the case for building movement for land justice as part of a general revolutionary movement for anarchist communism ..read more
At The Cafe
11M ago
Nick Heath talks about anarchist communism and how this current is the main way forward for building a well-organised, revolutionary, working class anarchist movement ..read more
At The Cafe
11M ago
Nick Heath talks about his book The Idea, stressing the importance of organisation and the anarchist communism perspective as opposed to individualist anarchism and other currents. Ruth Kinna gives her perspective from academic anarchism ..read more
At The Cafe
11M ago
Recently two important books on anarchist communism have appeared. They both seek to reclaim the tradition of anarchist communism, and both have been written by veterans of the anarchist communist movement. The first to appear has been A Defence of Anarchist Communism by Brian Morris, followed by The Idea: Anarchist Communism, Past, Present and Future. Brian has been defending the “integrity, importance and contemporary relevance of anarchist communism as a historical movement and as a political tradition” for more than 40 years in pamphlets, articles, books and letters. In Defence of Anarchis ..read more
At The Cafe
11M ago
We have selected the first three chapters of Petr Kropotkin’s Conquest of Bread for the reading group because it tries to envisage what an anarchist communist society would look like.
Kropotkin wrote The Conquest of Bread to systematically explain the essential ideas of anarchist-communism. It was a watershed moment in anarchist history since it was the first time that a completed and in-depth theoretical work of anarchist-communist theory was available to the public.Throughout the first three chapters, Kropotkin constructs an argument for the common ownership of all intellectual and useful pr ..read more
At The Cafe
11M ago
Dale Walford spoke to anarchist communist historian, writer and militant Nick Heath about his new book The Idea – Anarchist Communism, Past, Present and Future. The book is being published in May 2022 by JUST books
If you are interested in finding out more about anarchist communism or are interested in the Anarchist Communist Group (ACG), please visit: https://www.anarchistcommunism.org with links to all our socials ..read more
At The Cafe
11M ago
What does the slogan 'No War but the Class War' mean in the interimperialist conflict between Russia and NATO-backed Ukraine?
The recent actions of the Russian state in Ukraine follow on from its military support for the Assad regime in Syria, its presence in Libya, its intervention in Kazakhstan to help crush the revolt there, its support for the Lukashenko regime in Belarus, and its disguised military presence in Africa via the Wagner Group. In all these cases the Russian state wants to maintain/further its imperialist interests.
In opposing Russia the NATO countries have chosen to back Ukra ..read more