Free Event.

           Anarchist Film Group are holding a free event/PowerPoint talk followed by a discussion, in the Electron club CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, Tuesday 26th March 7pm.
            It's on direct action and community activism with specific examples covering housing issues, the 1984/85 miner's strike and the Poll Tax. The Speaker will be John Cooper, long standing member of https://spiritofrevolt.info He will be using material from our John Cooper Collection T SOR 3 and his own personal experiences. This is a must and should prove very interesting.
            If anyone is interested they are welcome to attend.

 

Image courtesy of The Guardian.

 

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SubMedia.

   

        SubMedia, System Fail No.17 like its previous issues, spans the world, touches  on protests, uprisings, famine, war, anti-war resistance and that awkward interview with Liz Truss, informative stuff, always worth a watch and spreading far and wide.

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May Day!

Glasgow May Day 1960, fun for the family.

          Glasgow's May Day March, 2022, was a poor show compared to other years, despite the horrendous onslaught to our standard of living not enough people seem to tie the two together. May Day a day to mark our struggles and come together to celebrate our successes. To create unity among all ordinary people as we fight for the better world for all. As an anarchist it was disappointing to find that myself, my partner and a member of the ACG appeared to be the only three handing out anarchists literature. These events are surely the one place where we can get among the people and try to spread our ideas on how to try and proceed in creating that better world. It was a trade union organised event and seemed to have shrunk in numbers since previous years, but still the place to get our ideas out.
         May Day in Glasgow, like many other cities, used to be a massive event for families, a great day out thousands gathering to celebrate, have fun, a picnic and an abundance of political argument and debate available. Now it seems to be a slow walk to a park, a couple union bosses preaching and then go home. It might make the unions look as if they are doing something, but it is killing the workers May Day. Glasgow anarchists, sorry, I for one was disappointed at your performance at this May Day, you were practically invisible.
        Friends of the People's Palace, Winter Gardens and Glasgow Green put on a good show with part of their now famous massive yellow banner well displayed. Well done Friends. 

 

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Pamphlets.

 

          We at Spirit of revolt are still unable to access our room because of covid19 restriction, but we keep plugging away at what we can still do. “Read of the Month” is still something we can continue doing. So here is our August offering from our Spirit of Revolt Archive. It is issue 1 of a little known pamphlet called “Prisoners of War”. Enjoy and then take a wee browse through our catalogue and feast on the amazing collection of serials, pamphlets, leaflets, posters and other memorabilia, all linked to anarchist, libertarian socialist ideas and history.

 

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Progress For The Masses.

 

   A little verse that offers food for thought on capitalist progress for the masses.

Our grandmothers yesterday, struggling to "give them studies" scrubbed their floors,
they cooked their stews, whitewashed their walls, washed their clothes by hand ...
We today, with two careers and a master's degree, we scrub your floors, clean your sheets, sweep your lint, check your entrance to the apartment, check in after 17, check out before 12, the keys in the mailbox .. .

Well, something has changed.

Isabel Martín Ruiz

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Stand With The Protectors.

       More information on the struggle to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline from going through the reservation lands of the indigenous people of that area. This struggle has been going on for months, those struggling to stop this environmental disaster do not call themselves protesters, the call themselves, water protectors, as this corporate greed project risk damaging the water supply over a very wide area, all in the name of profit for the few. Like I have said before, as the protesters, protectors, gain support in publicity and support numbers, so the state will pull out all the stops with demonising propaganda, and savage militarised brutal physical repression. The state has no mercy when it comes to protecting the profits of its lords and masters, the corporate world, the financial Mafia. Victory for sanity and a sustainable world will only come if we all stand up and take part in the struggle to bring down this corporate tidal wave of destruction that is the capitalist system.

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