What is Anarchism?

When? Tuesday 27 November 6pm

Where? Russell Building 27, Falmer Campus

"Freedom without Socialism is Privilege and Injustice, Socialism without Freedom is Slavery and Brutality"

An Introduction to Anarchism, focusing on the Anarchist analysis of Capitalism and how to change the world through collective action. There will be a presentation followed by a general discussion.

Anarchism is a political theory which combines the demand for social equality with the necessity of individual freedom, and understands that far from being mutually incompatible, liberty and equality are possible only together.

This talk will be given by the Black Cat Group, a campus based group that seeks to spread the ideas and practice of anarchism.

Black Cat Library

Some recommended reading provided by members of Black Cat.

General Anarchism:
Bakunin, God and the State
The anarchist FAQ - What so anarchists do?
Workers Solidarity Movement, Parliament or Democracy
Workers Solidarity Movement, Red & Black Revolution, issue 13
Workers Solidarity Movement, Anarchism, Insurrections and Insurrectionalism
FDCA, Anarchist Communists: A Question of Class
FDCA, Anarchist Communists and Mass Organisation
Groupe d'Appel, Call


Feminism:
Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Spread: Illuminating the Sex Industry v2, Issue 3
Dalla Costa, Women and the Subversion of the Community
Bell Hooks - Feminism is For Everybody
Judith Butler - Gender Trouble
Judith Butler - Undoing Gender
Martha A. Ackelsberg -  Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the
  Struggle for the Emancipation of Women
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Quiet Rumours
Inga Muscio - Cunt
Donna Haraway - A Cyborg Manifesto


History:
Peirats, The CNT in the Spanish Revolution v1
Souchy et al, The May Days Barcelona 1937
Martha A. Ackelsberg -  Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the
  Struggle for the Emancipation of Women

General Communism:
Marx, Capital (abridged)
Marx, Wages, Price and Profit
Marx, Wage Labour and Capital
Aufheben, issues 5,6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 15.
Principia Dialectica, Issue 2
Camatte, This World we Must Leave
Krisis, Contributions to the Critique of Commodity society

Links:
www.anarcha.org
www.anarchistfaq.org