"This is how
things
pass under the present system of supreme social injustice. For the
honoured people in charge,robbery is not a crime if one robs a great
deal, but it is if the robber is a mere "hoodlum". A banker, a
businessman can make deals which bring sadness to hundreds of thousands
of homes: this is considered to be a skillful financial operation. A
ravenous man takes a piece of bread from a shop: this man is a thief."
Ricardo
Flores Magon,
Regeneracion, December 9 1911.
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When you go to work
in your corporate tower block think of how many fell off! Think of
those who didn't. Could you have done it?
01/7/09 Check out the Film
& Discussion page for news of the July 12th English language
screening and go to the Japanese page for news about the
upcoming Japanese language event on
July 5.
25/6/09 The recommended reading
page has been
up(back)dated with an article written in 1936 by Paul Mattick, the
leading exponent of Council Communism. Why not check it out? The key
theme of the article will ring clear as a bell as you consider todays'
political jockeying.
28/5/09 Check out the articles page
for something about
journalist Kotoku Shusui, who helped introduce
anarchism to Japan and was executed for treason.
26/5/09 
It is well known by regular attendees at our film and discussion events
that at least one of our group is a member of the IWW - Industrial
Workers of the World. IWW have been at the forefront of the campaign to
organise Starbucks and have recently won a series of legal cases
against the corporation. Check out the Stop Starbucks! campaign video
and click here to sign a petition
for Howard Schultz, the CEO of the coffee giant. Click here for the IWW Starbucks
union, and here for the IWW main page.
23/5/09 Spring
will get
back into full swing in June with two events - one with a John Pilger
movie and presentation from El Rabido and another from
Hashimoto/Japanese Spring.
From here on in, we
will be making an effort to refocus things. This doesn't mean we're abandoning
working class politics or the fight for justice for the oppressed
peoples of the world.
What it means is
we're getting back to basics - because
we've
been catering for all and sundry for far too long. Come prepared to
talk about, discuss and share your experiences of daily life and openly
learn about class war once more. In case you had been wondering what
has been going on in the world for the past two to three years, after
witnessing the Obama election circus, the worst financial collapse in
history and your rape by those who caused it, we've pieced together one
or two easy to read pieces by Karl Marx which quite simply demonstrate
that rather than becoming enlightened and emancipated, we have been
neutered and emasculated. Have a look:
Corruption
at Elections
Free
Trade and the Chartists
The
Duchess of Sutherland and Slavery
This all may seem
cryptic you might think. What has this got to do with
2009? Think on..................
03/5/09 There will only be
one film & discussion this month due to the golden week holiday.
Check out the F & D page for the info about the Japanese language
event on 24 May.
01/5/09 Don't
go To Work!
It's your holiday.
26/4/09 Today is the
anniversary of the Nazi bombing of Guernica. We remember the dead of
the first carpet bombing in history and salute the everyday working
women and men of Spain as well as the anarchists and Trotskyists who
fought against Franco in the Spanish Revolution.
Check out the
recommended reading page for a chapter from "Workers Councils"
25/4/09 Japanese
Spring heads into May with a film about the CIA and John Lennon on
May 24. Check the Film & Discussion page for news.
08/4/09 For all Hashimoto
Spring news please go to the Japanese page and for simple announcements
in English check out the Film & Discussion and activities pages.
04/4/09 Take
a look at the
new recommended reading page by clicking the link in the margin to the
left.
22/3/09 David Rovics forwarded his most recent essay on "The
Israeli Terror" a few days ago and it is posted on the articles page.
Check it out.
16/3/09 David Rovics played
another storming show at Heaven's Door - for
those of you who missed
it,well we can only say....well......performing songs from his new
children's album as well as additions to his already outstanding roster
of outpourings on social,economic and political justice, no one left
disappointed.
3/09 Many thanks to a
regular Spring
participant for information on the Who
Profits? database - a new site listing companies that
benefit from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. Check out the
News and Views page for a statement and more.
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