Collective Action Notes documents and discusses different struggles (strikes, occupations, etc.) world-wide. We are interested in understanding class struggle and the different forms it takes in the present period, forms ranging from overt and highly visible struggles such as the French public sector strike wave in the winter of 1995 to more 'hidden ' forms of class struggle such as absenteeism. sabotage (broadly defined ), etc.
Loosely, it could be said CAN is sympathetic to issues of worker's autonomy and self-activity. Although no formally agreed upon political perspective exists at the present point, probably most participants would define themselves in one way or another as being critical of the traditional left, and close to class struggle anarchist/council communist views, again without being obsessed by old ideologies or labels (such as the historical divide between anarchism and marxism), which in most cases have been superceded by capitalist development itself.
Collective Action Notes, POB 39521,Baltimore, MD 21212,USA
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August 10, 2000 - "Fragile Prosperity? Fragile Social Peace? Notes on the U.S." By Curtis Price, July 2000, from "Collective Action Notes" #16/17 August 10, 2000 - "35 Hours: The French Way To Flexibalization", April 2000. From "Collective Action Notes" #16/17 June 25, 2000 - "The Transgression of a Laborer: Malcolm X In The Wilderness Of America" - Ferruccio Gambino (1993) NEW LINK - "Marx and Darwin" - Anton Pannekoek, 1912 (On Marxism archives) June 21, 2000 - "Socialism and the Intelligentsia: The Ideas of Jan Machajski in Historical Retrospective" - Paul Flewers (New Interventions, Vol. 6, # 1, Feb. 1995) June 2, 2000 "Workers Against Work" - Michael Seidman, 1992 (entire book, from University of California Press web site; look under "European History") June 2, 2000 - "Ubu Saved From Drowning: Workers Insurgency and Statist Containment in Portugal
and Spain 1974-1977" By Loren Goldner (2000,book)
1. Introduction
2. Capitalism and Socialism
3. Reform and Revolution
4. Limits of Reform
5. Lenin's Revolution
6. The Idea of the Commune
7. State and Counter-Revolution
8. The German Revolution
9. Ideology and Class Consciousness
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