In the worldwide renaissance of interest in the work of Karl Marx of the past decade, a renaissance well-timed for the current (August 2007-November 2008) textbook liquidity crisis resulting lawfully from the anarchic character of capitalist accumulation, one key concept of Marx still remains in the shadows: the expanded reproduction of society and of nature.
Libcom's guide to further reading around the Spanish civil war and revolution of 1936-1939.
- Homage to Catalonia - Orwell*
- The Civil War in Spain - Broue/Themin
- Wrong Steps: Errors in the Spanish Revolution - Juan Garcia Oliver
- The Friends of Durruti Group, 1937-9 – A. Guillamon
- We, the Anarchists: A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937 - Stuart Christie
Loren Goldner's analysis of the recent global financial crisis.
Loren Goldner
October 2008
“There will be periods of 30 years which will pass with the seeming importance of a single day, and single days with the importance of 30 years.” (old Marxist maxim)
Matt Birkinshaw, a London anarchist, gives an account of his visit to the QQ shack settlement in Cape Town in diary form. QQ has recently joined the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement that began in Durban but now has a national presence.
'Be a visitor, not a spy' - QQ Section, Site B, Khayelitsha