Variousness 33

16Feb11

First, for my one regular reader, Who Cares?, some coverage of the revolution in Egypt, extracted from BobFromBrockley: Islamism: Alan A reports on the secular, liberal nature of the movement for freedom in Egypt so far, with a cautiously optimistic assessment of the chances of the Muslim Brotherhood gaining the upper hand from the chaos. He […]

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Tags: antisemitic incidents, antisemitism, Bay Area National Anarchists, Community Security Trust, Egypt, Green Party, Muslim Brotherhood, Noam Chomsky, Werner, Ziocentrism, Zionism

The anti-authoritarian left embraces the anti-Zionist right

09May10

An AnarchistNews post about an awful AdBusters article elicits an appalling comment thread. One commenter, however, gives a nice succint summary of what we are up against in the anarchist milieu, at least in North America: Lyons at Three-Way Fight says back Hezbollah. Left Turn backs both Hezbollah and Hamas. Norman Finkelstein backs Hezbollah (‘We […]

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Tags: Alison Weir, anarchism, blood libel, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel Shamir, Judith Butler, Michael Lyons, Noam Chomsky, organ harvesting, Race Traitor, Three-Way Fight, Upping the Anti

Gilles Dauvé, Jean Barrot, Guy Dauvé, La Vielle Taupe, Pierre Guillaume, Amadeo Bordiga, Didier Daeninckx, Not Bored and LibCom

05Jan10

The US-based Situationist grouplet, Not Bored!, published a text entitled “1981: the French FBI against Coluche . . .” on December 25. The text is a translation by Not Bored’s Bill Brown of a French article by left-wing author Didier Daeninckx about Guy Dauvé, a right-wing French intelligence officer.* Guy Dauvé is the father of […]

Filed under: Fascists in the anti-globalization movement, France, ultra-left   |  27 Comments
Tags: Amadeo Bordiga, anti-fascism, Didier Daeninckx, Faurisson affair, Gilles Dauve, Guy Dauvé, Guy Debord, holocaust denial, Holocaust negationism, Holocaust revisionism, Jean Barrot, La Vielle Taupe, left communism, Libcom, Noam Chomsky, Not Bored, paedophilia, Paul Rassinier, Pierre Guillaume, Robert Faurisson, Serge Quadruppani, Serge Thion, Situationism, ultra-left

Slack Chomsky

05Jan10

Bob asks, How would you like it if I called you bilingual? Extract: After my tussle with Gabriel Ash over Chomsky’s genocide denialism, after Martin posted some fantastic Gnome Chomskies, after revelations of Chomsky’s capitalist business practices, after Venezualan anarchists have described Uncle Noam as “Chavez’s clown”… I felt it was time for a Noam […]

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Tags: Noam Chomsky

Capitalism: a love story

27Nov09

Last week, we did anti-capitalist students in Nikes and keffiyahs. This week, anti-capitalist warriors with stocks in the military-industrial complex. Warning: sources are right-wing, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. Michael Moore: According to Fortune Magazine, Moore’s films have grossed over $300 million worldwide. His highest grossing film was “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which critiques the […]

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Tags: Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky