Casa da Lagartixa Preta “Malagueña Salerosa” (The House of the Black Gecko) has been housing anarchist (and related) activisms in São Paulo, Brazil for fourteen years. An activist from ABC Ativismo shares a potted history of the space and an overview of its wide-ranging activities.
Ativismo ABC and Casa da Lagartixa Preta “Malagueña Salerosa”
Steven Parfitt points to the prominence of casualisation among the myriad issues highlighted on picket lines in the recent UK university strikes. By looking back to the examples of the Wobblies and the Knights of Labor, he suggests lessons we might learn for organising precarious workers today.
The UK University Strike: Pensions, Precarity and Learning from History
Harold Barclay passed away peacefully a few months ago in December 2017. In this article Nathan Jun identifies some of Harold’s contributions to anarchist anthropology, and Jane Barclay, Harold’s wife, has kindly allowed us to reproduce her obituary of Harold for our blog readers.
AnarchistStudies.blog brings you another new article:
Jonathan’s Haidt’s The Righteous Mind differentiates between the ‘gut reactions’ of liberals and conservatives and argues that this shapes their political outlooks. Brian Martin takes a Kropotkinite tilt at Haidt’s six ‘moral foundations’ and assesses their implications for ‘human nature’ in anarchist political philosophy.
AnarchistStudies.blog is pleased to bring you our first two blog articles.
Anarchist geographer Simon Springer, takes hollow cries of ‘Left Unity’ to task, and asks why David Harvey is so afraid of anarchists:
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Anarchist? Rejecting Left Unity and Raising Hell in Radical Geography
And Manuel Lozano provides an extensive analysis of the Catalan Independence struggle from an anarchist perspective:
Nausea within the smokescreen. Profiteering the Catalan independence
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