Cape Town Launch of 'Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism'

southern africa | anarchist movement | anarchist communist event Monday March 08, 2010 18:42 by The Book Lounge booklounge at gmail dot com

The Book Lounge presents the Cape Town launch of 'BLACK FLAME: the
revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism' by Lucien van
der Walt & Michael Schmidt

'Black Flame' examines the anti-authoritarian class politics of the anarchist/syndicalist movement, and its 150 years of popular struggle on 5 continents. An indispensable conceptual and historical road map, with close attention to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, looking at its:

* Opposition to hierarchy, capitalism and the state
* Strategy: building revolutionary counter-power
* History: labour, community, anti-imperialism
* Agenda: participatory, cooperative economics
* Revolutions: Mexico, Spain, Ukraine, Korea
* Revival: today's struggles

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".

THURSDAY 11 MARCH 2010 @ 5.30 for 6.00

The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland Street (corner of Buitenkant), Cape Town

ALL WELCOME!

With thanks to Leopard's Leap Wines.
Please RSVP to booklounge@gmail.com / 021 462 2425.

MORE INFO: http://black-flame-anarchism.blogspot.com/
The LAUNCH POSTER: http://www.mediafire.com/?yzmztmzkrzz