Monday, December 12, 2011

SWEDEN: Black Flame events: Gävle (17 December) / Stockhom (18 December)

Gävle

Black Flame: Anarkismens och Syndikalismens Revolutionära Klasspolitik
Föredrag
Lördag 17 december 2011 kl 16
Lucien van der Walt från Sydafrika presenterar sin bok Black Flame: Anarkismens och Syndikalismens Revolutionära Klasspolitik ("Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndikalism")
Plats: Joe Hillgården, Nedre Bergsgatan 28, Gamla Gefle
Arr: Gävle LS
Fri entré. Föredraget hålls på engelska
The Joe Hill monument in Gävle

Monday, December 5, 2011

UK: London Book event, 10th December, "BLACK FLAME: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism"

UK: London Book event, 10th December 2011, "BLACK FLAME: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism"

Lucien van der Walt, of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, will speak on "Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism," at Freedom Bookshop, London, on Saturday 10th December.

Co-authored with Michael Schmidt, also of Johannesburg, "Black Flame" examines the anti-authoritarian class politics of the anarchist/syndicalist movement, and its 150 years of popular struggle on five continents.

This groundbreaking volume has been praised by reviewers as "deeply impressive", "fascinating, revealing and often startling", "a grand work of synthesis", "remarkable" "outstanding", "inspired" and "a welcome antidote to Eurocentric  accounts".

Sunday, December 4, 2011

UPDATE - "Black Flame" study groups: now in South Africa, Canada, Denmark, US, Australia, New Zealand ...

"Black Flame" is being used in reading groups by activists in a number of countries. The book is, of course, primarily a schoalrly one, but it interfaces with the left and labour milieu in interesting ways.

There are various groups in South Africa, Canada, Denmark, US, Australia, New Zealand ...