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Tuesday January 06, 2009 18:00 by Ideas & Action editorial group - WSM
In the world today there is no body of revolutionary theory that provides a fully convincing picture of where we are or a program for the future. The left is trapped in a cycle of state ideology and reactions to state ideology. For the past 14 years Ireland's Workers Solidarity Movement has published 14 issues of our theoretical journal Red and Black Revolution as an attempt to break this cycle and develop a contemporary anarchist understanding of the world we are in. It was sold at anarchist bookfairs in London and Dublin but otherwise faced the same problems as many other non-commercial publications, notably the closure of independent bookstores and an increased use of online media. This has meant that sales of the magazine shrunk while online readership of the articles soared. As we publish in order to be read rather than to be sold we embraced rather than shrunk from online distribution even though it cut further into sales. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Comrades,
As much as I respect the WSM, I think a bit of originality would be in order.
Back in 1981 a network of comrades founded ideas & action as an independent anarcho-syndicalist magazine. After Workers Solidarity Alliance was founded in November, 1984, ideas & action became the magazine of WSA (with issue #5). Due to a number of factors we suspended the magazine.
An archive of some of the article can be found at: http://workersolidarity.org/?page_id=263
Since its suspension WSA discussed reviving it.It has always been our hope that once WSA completed a period of rebuilding we would seek to re-launch our journal. The problem with WSM taking the same name is that it will create confusion at the point WSA re-launches the original "ideas & action".
While I can appreciate and respect the fact that the name of our journal has been used many times over, in educationals, in others journals in a doctored form and so forth. I would hope that due consideration will be given to the origins of the title and the fact that the Workers Solidarity Alliance has merely suspended the journal with the hopes of reviving it as the journal of the Workers Solidarity Alliance.
As a founding member of the ideas & action collective, I would ask that our WSM comrades reconsider the name of their intended journal.
Thank you for the favorable consideration and action.
Respectfully and comradely,
mitch
I'm the former editorial coordinator of the WSA's magazine ideas & action. The magazine was "suspended" in 1997 due to a period when people power and funds were lacking. But I would point out to the comrades of WSM that the WSA has always had in mind re-viving ideas & action. It seems to me that you all should have consulted with WSA before making the decision to adopt the name of our publication.
There is no problem here. I'm sure the WSM will take this on board, and come up with an alternative title.
The choice of 'I&A' by the WSM, in so far as it was linked to anything else, probably came from a series of public 'day schools' we ran some years back under the title "Anarchism: Ideas & Action".
With the WSA's magazine being on another continent and not having appeared in eleven years I honestly don't think it entered anyone's head that you might still want to use that title.
Greetings & thanks Alan. A private comradely email will be sent to WSM.
Continued good luck to the WSM and good health to you in the new year.