Published by Subversion, Dept 10, 1 Newton Street, Manchester M1 1HW.
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2. Class Struggle Hits the Road
- In 1995 we got involved in the struggle against the completion of the M66 Motorway around Manchester. This was an important development which has had a profound impact on our politics since.
3. Don't Trust Journalists and:
4. Against Cameras on Demos
The title says it all, really.
5. Technology and Class
A text delivered at a day school we held in mid-1995. It examines the way the working class has changed with the changes in technology.
6. Social Control, Councils and the Local State
We've always had an interest in the way the local state seeks to incorporate our struggles within the establishment.
7. Letters - the Animals Debate continues
Responses from readers to two articles in an earlier issue that examined the struggles against the live export of animals from British ports.
8. Book Review, Anarchist-Communism in Japan
a review of Hatta Shuzo and Pure Communism in Interwar Japan by John Crump
Who we are....
SUBVERSION is a revolutionary organisation which draws on the best elements of both the Anarchist and Marxist traditions. We define ourselves as being anti-state, anti-market communists.
Unlike the great bulk of so-called socialists, communists and anarchists who in our view aim at nothing more than a "radical" version of capitalism, dressed up in revolutionary language, we in Subversion believe in:
¥ A society without classes, national boundaries, inequality, exploitation or oppression of any kind.
¥ A society without commodity production, markets or money, where all production is for human need and all goods are free to everyone.
¥ A society where for the first time in history humanity can take control of its own destiny;
We believe the only route to such a society is that of worldwide revolution by working class people. The small struggles of today (strikes, anti-roads actions, mass raids on supermarkets like in Brazil, squatting and anti-rent actions etc.) are the seeds which contain the potential for a revolutionary movement powerful enough to take on capitalism.
The barriers to this are the fact that people are subjected all their lives to ideas in favour of the existing system, the lack of confidence in our ability to change things, and, not least, that when people are looking for change they are confronted with left-wing bogus revolutionaries to lead them down blind alleys.
Subversion sees its task as both participating in the struggles of today and putting forward genuinely revolutionary ideas.
Unlike the would-be leaders of the Left, we do not seek "followers" but aim at the creation of a conscious, revolutionary working class - a movement of equals.
In this spirit, we cooperate in a non-sectarian way with other revolutionary organisations (or individuals), both in the practical activities of class struggle and also in the development of revolutionary ideas and understanding.
What we do......
We have members in Manchester, Oldham, Leeds and near London.
We meet regularly to discuss politics, to plan this magazine and other written material and to discuss the activities we have been involved in and the ones we hope to be involved in in the future.
At the moment we are active where we work, fighting the M66 and prisoner support. We have been part of a number of efforts to bring revolutionaries together and will continue to do so. In Manchester, we are trying to bring class struggle communists and anarchists together.
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