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From: "Lucien Van Der Walt" <[log in to unmask]>
South African author @ London book event, 10th December: BLACK FLAME:
revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism
Lucien van der Walt, of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
will speak on "Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism
and syndicalism."
Co-authored with Michael Schmidt, also of Johannesburg, 'Black Flame'
examines the anti-authoritarian class politics of the
anarchist/syndicalist movement, and its 150 years of popular struggle on
five continents.
An indispensable conceptual and historical roadmap, with close attention
to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, looking at its:
· Opposition to hierarchy, capitalism and the state
· Strategy: building revolutionary counter-power
· History: labour, community, anti-imperialism
· Agenda: participatory, cooperative economics
· Revolutions: Mexico, Spain, Ukraine, Korea
· Revival: today's struggles
DATE: 2pm, Saturday 10th of December
PLACE: Freedom Bookshop
Angel Alley
84b Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
Directions:
http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/wp-content/uploads/Freedom-map11.gif
MORE @ http://black-flame-anarchism.blogspot.com
This groundbreaking volume has been praised by reviewers as "deeply
impressive", "fascinating, revealing and often startling", "a grand work
of synthesis", "remarkable" "outstanding", "inspired" and "a welcome
antidote to Eurocentric accounts".
Michael Schmidt is a Johannesburg-based investigative journalist/ journalism
trainer and activist, with experience in Chiapas, civil war Guatemala,
the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Rwanda, Darfur, and
Lebanon.
Lucien van der Walt teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand. Winner
of the 2008 international 'Labor History' dissertation and the 2008/2009
CODESRIA Africa thesis awards, his extensive publications include (with Steve
Hirsch) 'Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial
World, 1880-1940' (Brill 2010).
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