Weekly Worker issue 923 - July 19 2012
No guide to revolution
Mike Macnair reviews: Iain McKay (ed) Property is theft! A Pierre-Joseph Proudhon anthology AK Press, 2011, pp822, £25
The end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st has seen something of a revival of anarchism and anarchist-influenced forms of leftism. There has, of course, also been a revival of anarchism of the right - ‘anarcho-capitalism’ and its weaker variant, small-state libertarianism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is one of the ‘founding fathers’ of left anarchism, though his political ideas were somewhat closer to the ‘small is beautiful’ (Schumacher) approach of modern left greens than to the direct-actionism of Mikhail Bakunin, which has been more influential on modern anarchism.
Letters
Sex support; ISO conference; Sectarianism; It’s a gas; Decline; Hamas style; Perfect; Exciting time; Miner errors; Not my words;
Bans could be a doubled-edged sword
Eddie Ford argues that the balance between left and right in the Labour Party is complex and symbolised by Ed Miliband courting both the traditional working class base and the overtly pro-capitalist right
Diplomacy and dissonance
The Morning Star’s CPB is ‘concerned and worried’ about the Communist Party of China’s embrace of capitalist relations. Lawrence Parker reports
AKP resorts to brutality
The true intentions of the Turkish government in relation to the ‘Kurdish problem’ have been well and truly revealed, writes Esen Uslu
Sealed trains and class traitors
Yassamine Mather interrogates the excuses used by ‘leftwing’ supporters of the Iran Tribunal
Standing the test of time
On July 9, the CPGB hosted a fringe meeting at Marxism 2012, which served as a pre-launch of the recently published collection of essays by Moshé Machover.
Profound questions, no profound answers
Maciej Zurowski reviews a play about the 2011 summer riots: Archie W Maddocks, 'Mottled lines' (director: Henry Bell)
Football through the looking glass
The John Terry racism trial has made for a sorrier spectacle than the average England match, writes Harley Filben
