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SUMMARY:Reading Group 21 - Social Anarchism and Organisation
DESCRIPTION:For our twenty first reading group we will be reading Social Anarchism and Organisation by the Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro (FARJ). We also have some additional suggested short readings about Platformism and the arguments around it to go along with the booklet. As FARJ describes the booklet:\nThe first Congress of the FARJ was held with the principal objective of deepening our reflections on the question of organisation and formalising them into a programme. This debate has been happening within our organisation since 2003. We have produced theoretical materials\, established our thinking\, learned from the successes and mistakes of our political practice it was becoming increasingly necessary to further the debate and to formalise it\, spreading this knowledge both internally and externally. The document “Social Anarchism and Organisation” formalises our positions after all these reflections. More than a purely theoretical document\, it reflects the conclusions realised after five years of practical application of anarchism in the social struggles of our people. The document is divided into 16 parts. It has already been published in Portuguese in a book co-published between Faísca and the FARJ. \nA free version of Social Anarchism and Organisation can be found at the Anarchist Library here. While this is the main reading\, the following article/essay length pieces will also be helpful in understanding some of the historical arguments within the anarchist movement that are relevant to Social Anarchism and Organisation:\nOrganisational Platform of the Libertarian Communists – Reflections on what went wrong for anarchism in the Russian Revolution and how to prevent it from happening again\, which would lead to platformist anarchism\nA Reply to the Platform – A response to the above\, which would lead to synthesist anarchism of the kind still championed by the French anarchist federation.\nA Reply to Anarchism’s Confusionists – A plaftformist response to the synthesist critique.\nAbout the Platform – An exchange between Makhno and Malatesta about the platform.\nOur friends at Freedom Press here host the reading group for free\, so please support them by using them for your supply of radical books and zines.\nThe reading group will be meeting on Tuesday the 26th of May\, 19:00\, at Freedom Bookshop\, 84b Whitechapel High St\, London E1 7QX. You are welcome to come and join in the discussion even if you have not finished the reading.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/reading-group-21-social-anarchism-and-organisation/
LOCATION:Freedom Bookshop\, 84b Whitechapel High Street\, E1 7QX
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SUMMARY:The Plot is on Fire with MayDay Rooms and Manuela Zechner
DESCRIPTION:Many of the materials from our ecological holdings offer examples of organised attempts to confront ecological crisis through insurgent\, ground-level direct-action. In this spirit\, we invite you to join us in this practical session with Manuela Zechner\, who will share key takes from her new book\, The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress\, Plantation and Patriarchy (Pluto 2026) and its chapters on tech and agrarian extractivism\, as well as from the work of the Common Ecologies School on agrarian extractivism and building agroecological counterpower.  \nWe’ll be looking towards toxic tech extractivism and the new digital and data frontiers that capitalism is pushing\, and map some of the forms of resistance we see or imagine springing up around us. How might we resist data centres\, microchip factories\, toxic tech assembly lines\, and mines for rare earths? And how do struggles around water and land intersect with struggles against toxic algorithmic and data harvesting regimes? Bring what you know\, along with what you want to learn about these and other contemporary ecological struggles\, and we’ll take time to map it together and orient it toward a shared horizon.
URL:https://www.eroding.org.uk/event/the-plot-is-on-fire-with-mayday-rooms-and-manuela-zechner/
LOCATION:Mayday Rooms\, 88 Fleet Street\, EC4Y 1AE
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