Reasons for a working class perspective. What is wrong with a nonclass perspective. Rooting class struggle anarchism in an analysis of capitalism, a strategic orienation, and a moral perspective.

What is Class Struggle Anarchism?
PART 1: Why the Working Class

Recently an activist friend, who has been influenced by Michael Albert’s Parecon program, wrote to me. He asked, “Why should we call ourselves class struggle anarchists instead of feminist-antiracist-green-class struggle anarchists?” In other words, why single out the struggle of the working class? At least his approach includes class conflict as one of the aspects of social struggle. There are many, liberals and radicals, who completely reject class struggle. Many denounce unions (from the right). Hardt and Negri have been influential in replacing the working class theoretically with a concept of the “multitude.”

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source : theagitator’s blog

On Tuesday, May1, tens of millions of working people and their supporters took to the streets on International Workers’ Day to stand up for their rights and interests against the growing pressure of globalized corporate capitalism. In places as varied as Los Angeles and Istanbul, from San Luis Potosi to Zimbabwe to Teheran, demonstrators were met with stiff, even brutal, repression from the ruling regimes. The zeitgeist of our time is clearly moving in the direction of a unity between globalized corporate interests and repressive national regimes. There is only one force that can counter this encroachment on liberty and equality, still best summed up in that venerable clarion call: “Workers of the World, Unite!” This past Tuesday, workers on every continent did just that, and my roundup of Global MayDay 2007 is in the extended copy.

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Sekali lagi…terdapat “tetes hitam” di jalanan di jakarta, sedikit tetes diantara lautan massa buruh yang turun, menghentikan kerja mereka dipabrik, melupakan kewajiban mereka untuk memutar mesin penghasil uang untuk bosnya. Ya…kami datang lagi kali ini, meramaikan jalan-jalan dijakarta! kami datang! kami eksis! kami penantang otoritas! kami para anti-otoritarian!

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Ratusan orang di penjara secara ilegal, lusinan orang lenyap, disiksa, diburu, dan dipukuli. Pemuda dan pemudi, kaum adat, anak-anak, orang tua. Dengan kata lain: orang-orang Oaxaca yang datang dari bawah. Dan dari atas, ada polisi federal (PFP), paramiliternya Ulises Ruiz, media massa, dan politisi.

Untuk berdiam diri di hadapan momok yang semacam ini adalah seperti berkata “Oaxaca” dari atas, dan untuk membuat penilaian-penilaian dari atas-kebawah yang penuh lelucon…dan idiotik.

Karena dari atas mereka telah bersiap diri untuk mengatakan bahwa semuanya telah kembali normal dan “konflik” telah dikendalikan karena para “pemimpin” telah di tangkap, seakan-akan gerakan ini memiliki “pemimpin-pemimpin” yang dapat dibeli, di penjara, atau dibunuh. Mereka berkata kalau sekarang kita harus melihat ke arah yang berbeda. Yang maksudnya, kita harus kembali patuh kepada yang diatas, kepada keberagaman kekuasaan politik, kepada simulasi-simulasi dan garis depannya, yang memberi komando dan perintah sementara Kekuatan sebenarnya menyuap media-medianya, pundit-punditnya, para politisinya, seniman, kaum intelektual, kepala polisi, militer dan paramiliter.

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Greece, Athens 4-7 May: An anarchist forum, a demo & a riot (photos) & the co-operation of the European Social Forum with the police in arresting dozens of innocent passers-by and bystanders and charging seventeen of them.

For the first time in Greece, between the 4th and 7th of May the Libertarian Anarchist Antiauthoritarian Forum took place ( http://www.libertariananarchistforum.com/ ). This forum (with open discussions, video projections, theatrical presentations, photography exhibitions, anarchist books & periodicals stalls and a radio station broadcasting the discussions live on fm and on the internet) was organized by anarchists in contrast to the European Social forum that was also taking place in Athens during the same dates. The basic principles for its formation can be found here: http://www.libertariananarchistforum.com/en/main.htm
Photographs from the Anarchist’s forum can be found here: http://athens.indymedia.org/front.php3?lang=el&article_id=504274

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